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Summary
Summary
The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection provides a state-of-the-art review of theory, research, and professional practice in the field of selection and assessment.
Reviews research and practical developments in all of the main selection methods, including interviews, psychometric tests, assessment centres, and work sample tests.
Considers selection from the organization's and the applicant's perspective, and covers the use of new technology in selection and adverse impact issues.
Each section includes contributions from internationally eminent authors based in North America and Europe.
Author Notes
Arne Evers is Associate Professor in Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam.
Neil Anderson is Professor in Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam.
Olga Voskuijl is Assistant Professor in Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors | p. viii |
Notes on the Editors | p. xii |
Notes on the Contributors | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xxi |
1 Relationships between Practice and Research in Personnel Selection: Does the Left Hand Know What the Right Is Doing? | p. 1 |
Part I Preparing for Selection | p. 25 |
2 Job Analysis: Current and Future Perspectives | p. 27 |
3 The Impracticality of Recruitment Research | p. 47 |
4 The Design of Selection Systems: Context, Principles, Issues | p. 73 |
5 Is the Obvious Obvious? Considerations About Ethical Issues in Personnel Selection | p. 98 |
Part II Developments in the Use of Different Kinds of Predictors | p. 119 |
6 The Selection/Recruitment Interview: Core Processes and Contexts | p. 121 |
7 Cognitive Ability in Personnel Selection Decisions | p. 143 |
8 Personality in Personnel Selection | p. 174 |
9 Emotional Factors as Selection Criteria | p. 199 |
10 Situational Judgment Tests | p. 219 |
11 Assessment Centers: Recent Developments in Practice and Research | p. 243 |
Part III Decisions and their Context | p. 265 |
12 Decision Making in Selection | p. 267 |
13 Relevance and Rigor in Research on the Applicant's Perspective: In Pursuit of Pragmatic Science | p. 291 |
14 Ethnic Bias and Fairness in Personnel Selection: Evidence and Consequences | p. 306 |
Part IV Criterion Measures | p. 329 |
15 The Prediction of Typical and Maximum Performance in Employee Selection | p. 331 |
16 Job Performance: Assessment Issues in Personnel Selection | p. 354 |
17 The Prediction of Contextual Performance | p. 376 |
Part V Emerging Trends and Assessment for Change | p. 397 |
18 Computer-Based Testing and the Internet | p. 399 |
19 A Review of Person-Environment Fit Research: Prospects for Personnel Selection | p. 419 |
20 Selection of Leaders in Global Organizations | p. 440 |
21 Expatriate Selection: A Process Approach | p. 458 |
22 Selection for Teams | p. 476 |
23 Multilevel Selection and Prediction: Theories, Methods, and Models | p. 495 |
Author Index | p. 517 |
Subject Index | p. 541 |