Understanding Personnel Assessment Chapter 1 Understanding Personnel Assessment chapter 1

Chap 1 Assumptions Validation and Its Limitations Theory and Practice chapter 1

Chapter 1 Need to demonstrate: How would you demonstrate HR value? Need for HR (ROI) For talent acquisition and management (focus of this course) A high cost for bad hires! ? High vs. low level positions ? Cf personnel high expensive equipment How would you demonstrate HR value? chapter 1

Wise Decisions Each hire is a big commitment for both (don’t make a 30 year mistake!) The employee and organization ? What are the implications for each? Should hiring be based or merit? What does merit mean? How can you assess merit? Or some other reasons? chapter 1

Role of Research in Staffing How did Gideon use self-selection Role of Research in Staffing How did Gideon use self-selection? Can we depend upon dogmatic authority for selection? Fundamental Assumptions (Freyd, 1923): Human abilities are normally distributed and Measureable Stable What are some? Different jobs require different attributes Give some examples chapter 1

Role of Research Steps in traditional validation: Job analysis What is done, what attributes and resources are Criterion (what’s to be predicted) What is performance? A Result or behavior? How do you measure performance? Use sales as an example Form a predictive hypothesis For a sports athlete? chapter 1

Research What are the value of tests and inventories? Select methods of measurement What are the value of tests and inventories? What other methods can be validated? Design the research Purpose is to generalize What does that mean? Cf multiple hurdle and compensatory –e.g.? Collect data Evaluate results –validate the predictor chapter 1

Research (con’t) Validation designs: Using “Present employees” v. “future employees” What are these called? What are the relative advantages of each? Problems with traditional research: N – 30 or 300? What role does N play in VG? need for judgment Global for specific assessments “whole person” =when should this be considered? chapter 1

Theory (academic) and Practice (consultant) What’s the value of theory? How to reconcile them Client demands v. good practice When do you compromise? How much? clinical judgment v. statistical what’s the difference? Which is better? chapter 1