Selection Flashcards
1
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Selection
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Process of choosing the individual best suited for a position from a group of applicants
2
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Selection Goals
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- Accurate Prediction
- Positive Applicant Reactions
- No adverse impact
- Low costs
2
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Reliability
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Provide stable, consistent, and repeatable results
3
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Validity
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Enable accurate inferences to be drawn
4
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Test Validation Approaches
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- Criterion-related validity
- Content validity
5
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Criterion-related validity
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Comparing scores on selection method to criteria like job performance, retention, etc.
6
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Concurrent Validity
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Comparing a measurement with a measure that is already known to be valid
7
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Predictive Validity
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The extent to which a score on a scale or test predicts scores on some criterion measure
8
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Selection Tests
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- Reliable and accurate
- Low cost
9
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Interviews
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- Can be reliable and accurate means of selecting qualified candidates
- Moderately high costs
- Everyone expects to be interviewed
10
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Cognitive Ability Tests
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- High validity
- Universal predictor
- Cheap
- Smarter people tend to be better workers
11
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Personality Tests
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- Self-reported measures of traits,
temperaments, or dispositions - Low validity
- No adverse impact
12
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Job-Knowledge tests
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- Low to mod validity
- low to mod adverse impact
- positive applicant reactions if relation to job is clear
13
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Work Sample
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- Performs a set of tasks representative of the job
- Mod to high validity, low adverse impact, and positive applicant reactions
- Expensive
14
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Situational Judgment Tests
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- Given hypothetical questions and asked to choose course of action
- Mod validity
