Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cognitive Abilities Test, Applicant Tracking System, Construct Validity

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Michael Aloisio

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With employee selection: review applications and resumes, administer testing and work samples to assess the (cid:272)a(cid:374)didates" competencies, interview, check references and backgrounds, and then selection process. Effective selection is important legal and ethical, failures mean loss in productivity and competitive advantage, and increase in employee turnover. Reliability extent to which a measurement generates consistent results (free from random error) Information usually involves statistics such as correlation coefficients (high correlation = strong relationship [1. 0 positive relationship; 0 no correlation at all] Inter-rater generate comparable results: test-retest - consistent results or consistent comparable results over time. A test of eyesight would be said to possess reliability if, when administered three times over the course of a month by three different examiners generating similar results each time. Internal reliability consistency and the reliability of the test within itself; the test question or items will deliver similar results or attributes. External factors can remove the effectiveness of the reliability: eg.