Personnel selection
Subtitle: adding value through people - a changing picture
By: Mark Cook
Edition: Sixth edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781118973592; 9781118973585
Subjects: Employee selection
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Old and new selection methods: We've always done it this way; title: Validity of selection methods: How do you know it works?; title: Job description, work analysis and competences: If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else; title: The interview: "I know one when I see one"; title: References and ratings: The eye of the beholder; title: Tests of mental ability: "a... man of paralysing stupidity"; title: Assessing personality by questionnaire: Do you worry about awful things that might happen?; title: Alternative ways of assessing personality: What year was the Bataan death march?; title: Biodata and weighted application blanks: How old were you when you learned to swim?; title: Assessment centres: Does your face fit?; title: Emotional intelligence and other methods: "Success in work is 80% dependent on emotional intelligence"; title: Criteria of work performance: "the successful employee...does more work, does it better, with less supervision"; title: Minorities, fairness and the law: Getting the numbers right; title: The value of good employees: The best is twice as good as the worst; title: Conclusions: Calculating the cost of smugness.