Also, it can be used to help managers select employees and match them to certain types of jobs. The drawbacks would be the time and expense involved with administering these tests. Also, some individuals don't fit nicely and neatly into predetermined personality categories. The best documented personality-job fit theory was developed by John Holland. Name four different shortcuts used in judging others.
Selectivity means that people select only bits and pieces of situations.
Assumed similarity is the belief that others are like oneself, which can affect perception about what others are like or what others want from their jobs. Stereotyping is judging a person on the basis of one's perception of a group to which he or she belong. It can distort perceptual judgments. The halo effect is perceiving an individual based on a single characteristic rather than the total package of who that person is. Operant conditioning argues that behavior is a function of its consequences.