Personnel Selection and Assessment

Name: Personnel Selection and Assessment
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Personnel Selection and AssessmentIndividual and Organizational Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Heinz Schuler, James L. Farr, Mike Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Psychology Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781138978263, 978-1138978263\nSynopsis\nThe impetus for this volume came from the editors' belief that most current research and thinking about personnel selection and assessment in organizations considered only the perspective of the employer. The job applicant seeking to join the organization or the employee being considered for promotion or reassignment was typically given little attention from the designers of employment or assessment systems.\n\n They believed that this imbalance had several negative implications: \n 1. Organizational selection and assessment appeared to be the principal area within work and organizational psychology that had forgotten a basic tenet of the profession of psychology, namely, that the welfare of the individua.