The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection

by Editor: Arne Evers (University of Amsterdam); Editor: Neil Anderson (Golsmiths College, Univ. of London); Editor: Olga Smit-Voskuijl (University of Amsterdam)

• ISBN13: 9781405144667
• ISBN10: 1405144661
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection provides a state-of-the-art review of theory, research, and professional practice in the field of selection and assessment. Reviews research and practical developments in all of the main selection methods, including interviews, psychometric tests, assessment centres, and work sample tests. Considers selection from the organization's and the applicant's perspective, and covers the use of new technology in selection and adverse impact issues. Each section includes contributions from internationally eminent authors based in North America and Europe.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

Preface

Relationships between Practice and Research in Personnel Selection: Does the Left Hand Know What the Right Is Doing?

Preparing for Selection

Job Analysis: Current and Future Perspectives

The Impracticality of Recruitment Research

The Design of Selection Systems: Context, Principles, Issues

Is the Obvious Obvious? Considerations About Ethical Issues in Personnel Selection

Developments in the Use of Different Kinds of Predictors.

The Selection/Recruitment Interview: Core Processes and Contexts

Cognitive Ability in Personnel Selection Decisions

Personality in Personnel Selection

Emotional Factors as Selection Criteria

Situational Judgment Tests

Assessment Centers: Recent Developments in Practice and Research

Decisions and their Context.

Decision Making in Selection

Relevance and Rigor in Research on the ApplicantÆs Perspective: In Pursuit of Pragmatic Science

Ethnic Bias and Fairness in Personnel Selection: Evidence and Consequences

Criterion Measures.

The Prediction of Typical and Maximum Performance in Employee Selection

Job Performance: Assessment Issues in Personnel Selection

The Prediction of Contextual Performance

Emerging Trends and Assessment for Change.

Computer-Based Testing and the Internet

A Review of Person--Environment Fit Research: Prospects for Personnel Selection

Selection of Leaders in Global Organizations

Expatriate Selection: A Process Approach

Selection for Teams

Multilevel Selection and Prediction: Theories, Methods, and Models

Author Index

Subject Index

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