PSYC 3070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Winnipeg Police Service, Observational Error, Standard Error
Document Summary
Chapter 2: foundations of recruitment and selection- reliability/validity. Applicant must have ksaos (knowledge, skills, abilities, or other attributes) Good person-job fit and good person-organization fit. Based on procedure by winnipeg police department. Must meet minimum requirements and provide evidence, no criminal record, written exam, screening interview, 3 hour background interview, psychological/medical exam. Most hr decisions based on intuition instead of empirical support. Goal of selection: find candidates with attributes required for job success. Job/work info used to identify performance domain (job tasks) and ksaos. Ksaos and inferences based on constructs: constructs: ideas to explain relationships between observations (i. e. learning construct to explain change in behavior as result of experience, inferred from observations that we cannot directly observe (i. e. gravity) Ksaos translated into measurable predictors: applicant should have good cognitive ability, experience operating electronic equipment, stable emotional disposition. Cognitive ability measured through general test, past work history.
