37:533:301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Content Validity, Agreeableness, Impression Management

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Human Resource Management
• Course: 37:533:301
• Professor: Hadi El Farr

Document Summary

Selection: systematic process of deciding which applicants to : Move to other jobs (lateral moves) of the performance of candidates. Why is selection important: the aim of selection process is to obtain the most accurate prediction, among others, new employees that aren"t a good fit with the job, team and organization might. Voluntarily or involuntarily leave the organization soon. Standards for an effective selection process: reliability consistent results over time across raters (free from random error) Measures what it is supposed to measure and how well it does: validity so. Are you measuring the right thing: content validity, criterion related validity, construct validity (how well of a selection tool measures the job related characteristic that it claims to measure, unbiased. The more reliable, valid and generalize the selection method, the more utility it will have. Usually the utility of any test increases as the selection ratio. Selection methods may be strong predictors but may be gets lower expensive: legality.