MIS 34180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Digital Identity, Cognitive Bias, Job Performance

• School: Kent State University
• Department: Management and Information Systems
• Course: MIS 34180
• Professor: Mark D Whitmore

Document Summary

Selection and placement: types of selection methods: Interviews: honesty and drug tests, work samples, personality inventories, cognitive ability tests, physical ability tests, references and biographical data. Interviews: selective interviews- a dialogue initiated by one or more persons to gather information and evaluate an applicants qualifications for employment, to increase and interviews utility: Interviews should be structures, standardized, and focused on goals oriented to skills and observable behaviors. Interviewers should be able to quantitatively rate each interview. Inquisitiveness- curious, imaginative, artistically sensitive, broad minded, playful: emotional intelligence- describes people who are effective in social contexts, self awareness, self regulation, self motivation, social skills, empathy. Work sample tests: work samples- simulate job in miniaturized form, assessment center- a process in which multiple raters evaluate employee"s performance on a number of exercises. Drug tests: drug use tests tend to be reliable and valid, major controversies.