The Psychology of Personnel Selection

The Psychology of Personnel Selection
Author: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2010-01-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1139485261

This engaging and thought-provoking text introduces the main techniques, theories, research and debates in personnel selection, helping students and practitioners to identify the major predictors of job performance as well as the most suitable methods for assessing them. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Adrian Furnham provide a comprehensive, critical and up-to-date review of the constructs we use in assessing people – intelligence, personality, creativity, leadership and talent – and explore how these help us to predict differences in individuals' performance. Covering selection techniques such as interviews, references, biographical data, judgement tests and academic performance, The Psychology of Personnel Selection provides a lively discussion of both the theory behind the use of such techniques and the evidence for their usefulness and validity. The Psychology of Personnel Selection is essential reading for students of psychology, business studies, management and human resources, as well as for anyone involved in selection and assessment at work.

The Psychology of Money

The Psychology of Money
Author: Michael Argyle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317798708

This fascinating book examines such diverse and compelling subjects as: money and power, gender differences, morality and tax, the very rich, the poor, lottery and pools winners, how possessions and wealth affect self-image and esteem, why some people become misers and others gamblers, spendthrifts and tycoons, and why some people gain more pleasure from giving away money than from retaining it. Comprehensive and cross-cultural, The Psychology of Money integrates fascinating and scattered literature from many disciplines, and includes the most recent material to date. It will be of interest to psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists and to people interested in business and economics.

Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection

Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection
Author: Scott Highhouse
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317427793

This 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 predictor—a 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 both basic and advanced concepts in personnel selection in a straightforward, readable style intended to be used in both undergraduate and graduate courses in Personnel Selection and Assessment.

The Psychology of Personnel Selection

The Psychology of Personnel Selection
Author: Dominic Cooper
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

"In many companies the procedures for selecting the right person for the job are little more than a lottery. Optimal personnel selection is concerned with accurately predicting employees' future behaviour in the job." "Drawing on recent scientific research, this book offers a 'framework for action' to assist selectors in this difficult task. Based on the principles of Total Quality Management, topics include identifying customer needs, establishing the necessary evaluative standards for all selection methods, optimizing the design and return on investment in selection procedures, setting decision-making standards, and outlining ideas for continuous improvements. Many selection methods are also described and discussed in relation to the evaluative standards."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Recruitment, Selection and Employee Retention

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Recruitment, Selection and Employee Retention
Author: Harold W. Goldstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 871
Release: 2017-05-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1118972600

An unmatched collection of resources perfect for psychologists, scholars, and HR practitioners In The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Recruitment, Selection and Employee Retention, an expert team of authors presents a comprehensive and authoritative perspective on critical issues in employee recruitment, selection, and retention. Every chapter offers an in-depth review of the most recent literature and provides academics, researchers, industry practitioners, and students with a holistic reference to relevant data and theory. The book includes job analyses, biodata, simulation exercises, talent management guides, talent assessment guides for leadership development, and online employee selection strategies.

Personnel Selection

Personnel Selection
Author: Mark Cook
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2016-02-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1118973569

This is a fully updated edition of Personnel Selection, a seminal text on the psychometric approach to personnel selection by a noted expert in the field. Focuses on cutting-edge topics including the influence of social networking sites, adverse impact, age differences and stereotypes, distribution of work performance, and the problems of selecting new employees using research based on incumbent employees Questions established beliefs in the field, especially issues that have been characterized as “not a problem,” such as differential validity, over-reliance on self-report, and “faking good” Contains expanded discussion of research and practice in the US and internationally, while maintaining the definitive coverage of UK and European selection approaches Provides comprehensive yet accessible information for professionals and students, as well as helpful pedagogical tools (technical and statistical boxes, simplified figures and tables, research agenda boxes, key point summaries, and key references)

The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection

The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection
Author: Arne Evers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2009-02-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1405144661

The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection provides astate-of-the-art review of theory, research, and professionalpractice in the field of selection and assessment. Reviews research and practical developments in all of the mainselection methods, including interviews, psychometric tests,assessment centres, and work sample tests. Considers selection from the organization’s and theapplicant’s perspective, and covers the use of new technologyin selection and adverse impact issues. Each section includes contributions from internationallyeminent authors based in North America and Europe.

Handbook of Employee Selection

Handbook of Employee Selection
Author: James L. Farr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2025
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317426371

This second edition of the Handbook of Employee Selection has been revised and updated throughout to reflect current thinking on the state of science and practice in employee selection. In this volume, a diverse group of recognized scholars inside and outside the United States balance theory, research, and practice, often taking a global perspective. Divided into eight parts, chapters cover issues associated with measurement, such as validity and reliability, as well as practical concerns around the development of appropriate selection procedures and implementation of selection programs. Several chapters discuss the measurement of various constructs commonly used as predictors, and other chapters confront criterion measures that are used in test validation. Additional sections include chapters that focus on ethical and legal concerns and testing for certain types of jobs (e.g., blue collar jobs). The second edition features a new section on technology and employee selection. The Handbook of Employee Selection, Second Edition provides an indispensable reference for scholars, researchers, graduate students, and professionals in industrial and organizational psychology, human resource management, and related fields.

Personnel Selection and Assessment

Personnel Selection and Assessment
Author: Heinz Schuler
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2013-03-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134767412

The 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. They believed that this imbalance had several negative implications: 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 individual is paramount. 2. A lack of concern for the individuals who were being assessed could result in additional criticisms of psychological assessment in employment settings. 3. The acceptability of selection and assessment devices and systems may impact in (largely) unknown ways on the decisions of individuals to apply for jobs or transfers, thus affecting the selection ratio and potential utility of such systems. 4. Individual reactions to the characteristics of assessment and selection devices could affect the accuracy of the information obtained about those individuals, adversely affecting the reliability and validity of resulting personnel decisions. Informally discussing these concerns with their professional colleagues, the editors found that others were similarly troubled. Their next response was to organize a three day conference bringing together a number of researchers in applied psychology to present papers and participate in discussions related to balancing individual and organizational needs in selection and assessment. Revisions of the papers presented at this conference form the core of this volume.