Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Discriminant Validity, Observational Error, W. M. Keck Observatory

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Barry Hawn

Document Summary

Effective recruitment leaves you with the best pool of potential applicants. Selection is when the organization chooses which people best reflect the goals and the culture of the organization. Mis-hires cost the organization from 6-10 times as much of the base salary of that employee an causes more than that in non-financial decisions. It also costs more time and money to select a new hire, even including the recruitment process. Bad selection decisions happen all the time when organizations fail to follow the selection process and when decisions are made in an arbitrary fashion. Selection begins with review of resumes: reviewing applications and resumes, testing and work samples, interviewing candidates, checking references and reviewing backgrounds, making a selection decision. These take place in a regulated and restricted environment without bias, racism, discrimination, etc. There is a legal context from which the hr selection process operates in. Reliability the degree to which procedures are free from random error.