Management and Organizational Studies 3384A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tacit Knowledge, Substance Abuse, Physical Fitness

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 3384A/B
• Professor: Eligh Linda

Document Summary

Examples of psychological assessments used to select employees: personality inventories, honesty/integrity inventories, tests of emotional intelligence, vocational interest inventories, cognitive ability tests, aptitude tests, psychomotor tests, physical ability and sensory/perceptual ability tests. Abilities: enduring general traits or characteristics on which people differ and which they bring to a work situation. Skill: an individual"s degree of proficiency or competency on a given task, which develops through performing the task. Aptitude: a specific, narrow ability or skill that may be used to predict job performance. Cognitive ability tests: assess intelligence, general mental ability, or intellectual ability. Abilities include verbal and numerical ability, reasoning, memory, problem solving, and processing information. How easily people can be trained to perform job tasks. How well that can adjust and solve problems on the job. Practical intelligence: the ability to apply ideas in real world contexts. Tacit knowledge: derived from experience when learning is not the primary objective.