[ADM2337] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (20 pages long)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2337
• Professor: Catherine Elliott

Document Summary

Selection: the process of choosing individuals who have relevant qualifications to fill existing or projected job openings. List the skills, abilities, and other factors that lead to superior performance. Use selection processes such as interviews, references, and preemployment tests to measure. Varies depending on the process and their sequence will vary w/ the organization. Organizations use several different means to obtain information about applicants. Gathering resumes and applications and conducting interviews, tests, and investigations. Reliability: the degree to which interviews, tests, and other selection procedures yield comparable data over a period of time. Validity: refers to what a test or other selection procedure measures and how well it measures it. Should be able to predict how well a person performs on the job. Must be validated before it is used; directly related to increasing employee productivity and employee equity regulations require valid selection procedures. Use many different pieces of information such as cover letters, resumes, and applications, and.