PSY 440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.1: Personnel Selection, Job Performance
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A wide range of instruments that organizations can use to predict job performance. Tests that are given to applicants on paper. Person can take the test at home or somewhere away from a representative of the organization. Procedures administered to one applicant at a time. Selection procedures given to large groups of applicants at one time. Require the applicant to work very quickly in a short period of time. Test that let applicants go at the own pace. Does not consider how quickly the applicant can answer the questions. Measure an applicant"s general cognitive ability or a specific cognitive ability. Evaluate individual differences that are not related to cognitive skills. The dollar value of using a selection procedure. The degree to which there are mean differences in the performance of different subgroubs on a selection procedures. A group of selection procedures that can be used together to predict job performance.
