ADM 2337 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Essential Selection, Job Performance, Personality Test
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Important because: quality of human resources determines organizational performance, high cost of inappropriate selection decisions, significant legal implications. Supply challenges: labour shortage results in small selection of available applicants, selection ratio the ratio of the number of applicants hired to the total number of applicants, number of applicants hired/ total applicants = selection ratio. Intelligence, verbal skills, analytical ability, and leadership skills are constructs. Types of tests uses in selection: test of cognitive abilities, intelligence tests (iq) Iq tests are tests that measure general intellectual ability, such as verbal comprehension, reasoning, member, numerical ability, speed of perception, and word fluency: emotional intelligence (ei) Small parts dexterity: personality and interests with those of people in various occupations. Individual presentations: communication skills + persuasiveness is evaluated, objective tests: Involves taking aptitude, interest + achievement tests: an interview: Interviewees can sell their skills and market their attributes while gathering info about the firm and the job.
