BUSI 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personnel Selection, Conscientiousness, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Business
• Course: BUSI 3102
• Professor: Larry M.Coutts

Document Summary

Recruitment: process of finding and attracting capable individuals to apply and accept a job offer if and when one is made to them. Selection: identification of candidates from a pool of candidates who best meet requirements using assessment tools. Selection process: application screening, employment testing, reference checks, interviews, job previews (realistic, hiring decision. Personnel selection methods: any procedure used to make a personnel decision including reference checks (ex: knowledge/multiple-choice tests, simulation exercises) Personnel decisions: employment-related decisions to take any action that affects employment status. Develop personnel selection methods: job, job analysis (competencies, develop test content (simulation interview, pretesting (bias, item stats, reliability and validity (does the predictor measure what it is supposed to measure?) Strategic thinking: predict, understand impact and gather information to form a whole to establish strategic directions. Reliability: degree of consistency between two sets of scores and how consistently measures something: test-retest (temporal validity, alternate forms (equivalent forms) Internal consistency (degree to which test items are inter-correlated)