LIT 20600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Criterion Validity, Disparate Impact, Human Resource Management
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Why careful selection is important: the importance of selecting the right employees. Organizational performance always depends in part on subordinates having the right skills and attributes. The legal implications of incompetent hiring: eeo laws and court decisions related to nondiscriminatory selection procedures, the liability of negligent hiring of workers with questionable backgrounds. The consistency of scores obtained by the same person when retested with the identical or equivalent tests. Are the test results stable over time: test validity. The accuracy with which a test, interview, and so on measures what it purports to measure or fulfills the function it was designed to fill. A type of validity based on showing that scores on the test (predictors) are related to job performance (criterion). Are test s(cid:272)ores i(cid:374) this (cid:272)lass related to stude(cid:374)ts" k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge of human resource management: content validity. How to validate a test: step 1: analyze the job.
