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Selection procedures
- Pre-selection
- Interview
- Tests
Problems and requirements of job interviews
- Unstructured interviews engender high subjectivity, and thus low validity and reliability
- Requirements: structured and standardized interview, conducted by more than one interviewer (to increase objectiveness)
Job interview - Behavioral and situational questions
- Behavioral questions
- Situational questions
Assessment center
- Used to make hiring, promotion, or training decisions
- Focus on
- Multiple exercises
- Several candidates
- Several assessors
Elements of assessment centers
- Interviews
- Performance Tests
- Intelligence and Personality Tests
- „Mailbox“ Exercise
- Role Plays (Employee Interview)
- Case Studies
- Presentations
- Group discussions
Quality criteria of selection
- Validity
- Reliability
- Objectiveness
Assessment center - Discussion
- Good reliability
- Medium prognostic validity (measure of how well one variable predicts an outcome based on information from other variables)
- Bad construct valididty (construct validity = the degree to which a test measures what it claims, or purports, to be measuring)
- Content valididty is assumed to be given
How to improve assessment centers?
- Construct validity
- Social valididty
Selection process
- The HR strategy is defined according to the corporate strategy
- Which positions must be staffed? => requirements for the positions
- Which applicants to contact? => applicants' profiles
- Which selection procedure is suitable? => Comparison of characteristics of the position with the applicant