Recruiting & Selecting Flashcards
Hiring Challenges
Determining characteristics important to performance
Measuring the characteristics that determine performance
Assessing motivation
Who makes hiring decision?
Human Resource Planning
The process an organization uses to ensure that it has the right amount and the right kind of people to deliver a particular level of output or service in the future
costs of turnovers
Separation: exit interview, paperwork processing
Recruitment: Advertising, recruiter fee, time spent
Selection: Pre-employment testing, interviewing, time spent
Hiring: Orientation, training
Productivity: Vacancy cost, disruption
Reliability
Consistency of measurement, usually across time but also across judges
Deficiency error
occurs when a component of the domain being measured is not included in the measure
Contamination error
occurs when a measure included unwanted influences.
Example: Contrast affect, when your last employee was so creative but then the
new one is average creativity
Validity
The extent to which the technique measures the intended knowledge, skill, or
ability, in the selection context, it is extent to which scores on a test or interview correspond to actual job performance
Content validity strategy
assesses the degree to which the content of the selection method is representative of job content
Empirical Validity strategy
demonstrates the relationship between the selection method and job performance
Concurrent Validity
Extent of correlation between selection and performance scores, when measured at the same time
Predictive Validity
Extent to which selection scores correlate with performance scores. When performance is measured later in time
Cognitive
Measure a candidate’s capability in a certain area, such as math, and are valid predictors of job performance with the abilities tested are based on a job analysis
General cognitive
Typically measured by summing the scores on tests of verbal quantitative abilities, measures general intelligence
Assessment centers
A set of simulated tasks or exercises that candidate (usually for managerial positions) is asked to perform. Kind of expense.
Negligent Hiring
Refers to a situation in which an employer fails to use reasonable care in hiring an employee, who then commits a crime while in his or her position in the organization
