HROB 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tacit Knowledge, Job Performance, Physical Fitness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 3070
• Professor: Kevin Mc Dermott

Document Summary

Examples to psychological tests used to select employees. Abiliies enduring general traits or characterisics on which people difer and which they bring to a work situaion. Apitude a speciic, narrow ability or skill that may be used to predict job performance. Skill an individual"s degree of proiciency or competency on a given task, which develops through performing the task. Cogniive ability tests assess intelligence, general mental ability, or intellectual ability. Abiliies include verbal and numerical ability, reasoning, memory, problem solving, and processing informaion. Gma tests usually test: verbal, numerical, logic skills. Pracical intelligence the ability to apply ideas in real world contexts. Tacit knowledge derived from experience when learning is not the primary objecive. Job knowledge knowledgeable of issues and /or procedures deemed essenial for successful job performance. Emoional intelligence the ability to accurately perceived and appraise emoion in oneself and others; to appropriately regulate and express emoion.