Assessment and Selection in Organizations, International Handbook of Selection and Assessment

ISBN-13: 9780471966388 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 680 str.

Peter Herriot; Neil Anderson;Anderson

Opis

The 1990s have seen the emergence of new techniques and new ideas concerning selection and assessment. These changes include: changes in personnel selection and corporate strategy assessment for career development; inter-relationships between systems of selection and training; and the psychological impact of recruitment and assessment procedures upon individual candidates.

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Partial table of contents:

Selecting for Change: How will Personnel and Selection Psychology Survive?

(P. Herriot & N. Anderson).

TECHNOLOGICAL, NATIONAL, AND PROFESSIONAL CULTURES.

International Assessment and Selection (V. Shackleton & S. Newell).

Assessment in a Technological World (P. Jansen).

Selection of Military Staff (N. Hardinge).

Tacit Knowledge and Job Success (R. Sternberg).

BUSINESS CHANGE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES.

Personnel Selection and Corporate Strategy (A. Williams & P. Dobson).

Meta–Analysis and Validity Generalization (K. Murphy).

Assessing Honesty, Integrity, and Deception (K. Murphy & N. Luther).

PERSONNEL SELECTION AND ASSESSMENT.

Selection as Socialization (N. Anderson & C. Ostroff).

Selecting for Teamwork (M. West & N. Allen).

INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT FOR A CHANGING CONTEXT.

Assessing Developmental Needs (J. Seegers).

Downsizing and Deselection (P. Jackson).

Index.

Blurb

This is a book for human resource professionals, academics, researchers and independent consultants who are engaged in assessing other people at work. It places assessment in its political, economic, social and organizational context, and provides a critical guide to emergent issues in both research and practice. The contributors to the book originate from countries in Europe, North America and Asia and provide a vital perspective for the rapid international developments in selection and assessment in the 1990s and beyond.