Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection - 2nd Edition

Name: Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection - 2nd Edition
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Essentials of Personnel Assessment and SelectionAuthor(s): Scott Highhouse, Dennis Doverspike, Robert M Guion\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138914575, 978-1138914575\nSynopsis\nThis second edition provides managers and students the nuts and bolts of assessment processes and selection techniques. With this knowledge, managers learn to make informed personnel decisions based on the results of tests and assessments. The book emphasizes that employee performance predictions require well-formed hypotheses about personal characteristics that may be related to valued behavior at work. It also stresses the need for developing a theory of the attribute one hypothesizes as a predictora thought process too often missing from work on selection procedures. Topics such as team-member selection, situational judgment tests, nontraditional tests, individual assessment, and testing for diversity are explored. The book covers bo.