PSY 440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4.1: Personnel Selection, Job Performance, Presenteeism
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Outcome variables that can be used to demonstrate the performance or effectiveness of an employee or group of employees. Used to show whether employee outcomes have improved as a result of a personnel selection measure, training system, or intervention. An abstract idea of the "essence" of a job. The performance measure or measures you will actually use to try to capture the conceptual criterion. All actual criteria have at least some unreliability and error. The difficulty of capturing the conceptual criterion with the actual criterion measures. Job analyses do not completely define the conceptual criterion. Also, actual criterion measures are unreliable and contain some measurement error. The degree to which the actual criterion fails to overlap with the conceptual criterion. When an actual criterion measure includes something that it should not, leading to error. The degree to which the actual criterion overlaps with the conceptual criterion. The idea that an individual employee"s performance may change over time.
