Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection

Scott Highhouse is a Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in the Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, USA. Scott is Founding Editor of the journal Personnel Assessment and Decisions and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology and Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Dennis Doverspike is a Full Professor of Psychology at The University of Akron, USA, Senior Fellow of the Institute for Life-Span Development and Gerontology, and Director of the Center for Organizational Research. He is certified as a Specialist in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and in Organizational and Business Consulting Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and is a licensed psychologist in the State of Ohio. Robert M. Guion (deceased) is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University, where he was on the faculty from 1952 until his death in 2012. Honors include the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Award for Lifetime Contributions to Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics, American Psychological Association (Div. 5); and the Stephen E. Bemis Memorial Award, International Personnel Management Association Assessment Council.

Part 1: Deciding What to Assess 1. Understanding Personnel Assessment 2. Analyzing Organizations and Jobs 3. Developing Predictive Hypotheses 4. Knowing What’s Legal (and What’s Not) Part 2: Knowing How to Assess 5. Minimizing Error in Measurement 6. Predicting Future Performance 7. Using Multivariate Statistics 8. Making Judgments and Decisions 9. Analyzing Bias and Ensuring Fairness Part 3: Choosing the Right Method 10. Assessing via Traditional Tests 11. Assessing via Inventories and Interviews 12. Assessing via Ratings 13. Individual and Group Assessment