Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Applicant Tracking System, Construct Validity, Polygraph

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

Document Summary

Human resource professional reviews the applications to see which meet the requirements of the job. Often supervisors and team members are involved in this stage. Reliability: the extent to which a measurement generates consistent results, i. e. , is free from random error. Correlation coefficients measure the degree to which two sets of numbers are related. Validity: the extent to which performance on a measure is related to what the measure is designed to assess. To ensure validity, a way to determine validity is to compare many people"s score on that measure with their job performance. Measure of validity based on showing a substantial correlation between test scores and job performance scores. Two kinds of research are possible for arriving at criterion-related validity: Research that uses all the test scores of all applicants and looks for a relationship between the scores and future performance of the applicants who were hired. More time consuming and difficult but is the best measure of validity.