Selection Flashcards
The process through which organizations make decisions about who will or will not be allowed to join the organization
Personnel selection
Selection begins with
The candidates identified through recruitment
Selection ends with
The selected individuals placed in the jobs with the organization
Some feature of a person you are hiring
Predictor
Some organizationally relevant outcome
Criterion
Some feature you want to assess
Construct
The actual score you observe
Measure
These are those things used to make predictions about job applicants
Selection methods or devices
The goal of selection is to
Legitimately discriminate among applicants
The goal of this is to legitimately discriminate among applicants
Selection
Different selection methods may be more/less appropriate to use depending on
The specific job for which you are selecting
5 criteria for evaluating any selection method
Reliability Validity Generalizability Utility Legality
The extent to which a measurement is free from random error
Reliability
The more random error associated with a measure,
The less reliable it will be
The less reliable a measure is,
The less precise we can be in interpreting the scores it provides
What measures reliability
Upper-limit of correlation coefficient (standardized measure of association; r) is the product of each
In the selection context, this refers to the extent to which performance on the selection device/test is associated with performance on the job
Validity
_____ is necessary for validity but not sufficient
Reliability
Selection device does not measure all important aspects
Deficient
Selection device measures some irrelevant aspects
Contaminated
Three ways of measuring validity (accepted by the government’s Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures
Criterion-related
Content-related
Construct-related
This involves empirically assessing the relationship between scores on a selection device and scores on a “criterion”
Criterion related validity
The correlation between the two sets of scores assessed in criterion-related validation are assessed and referred to as
A validity coefficient
This was invented by Karl Pearson and Sir Francis Galton, who conducted research on genetics
Correlation (validity) coefficient