Modern Selection Procedures

Mike Smith and Ivan T. Robertson
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Mike Smith: University of Manchester
Ivan T. Robertson: University of Manchester

Chapter 11 in The Theory and Practice of Systematic Personnel Selection, 1993, pp 213-238 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The use of some form of test is a feature of many personnel selection procedures. Often these tests take the form of a pencil-and-paper psychological test (for example, general intelligence, numerical ability, aptitude or personality). To the designer of the personnel selection procedure the rationale for using the chosen tests will be perfectly clear. In a well-designed scheme, job analysis and other preparatory work will have identified the psychological characteristics that are thought to be good predictors of successful job performance. Tests will then have been selected to identify the candidates who display these desired characteristics. From the point of view of the candidates, however, the justification for the chosen tests may well be less clear. Often candidates are asked to display behaviour that is rather different from the behaviour that they will eventually be expected to display at work. Thus an applicant for a job as a machine operator may be expected to take tests of general intelligence, numerical aptitude and mechanical aptitude. The potential machine operator may well not be asked to operate any machinery.

Keywords: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; Assessment Centre; Personnel Selection; Biographical Data; Assessment Dimension (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22754-9_11

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