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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Employee-selection"”.
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Professional Opinion on the Use of Interest Inventories in Employee Selection
… 82 I-O psychologists with expertise in employee selection and equal employment opportunity law completed a survey assessing their expert opinion on the utility of interest inventories for employee selection decisions. Opinion on potential legal liability and discriminatory impact of the …
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Intuition in Employee Selection: Examining the Conditions for Accurate Intuitive Hiring Decisions
… more than one reasonable solution. However, in employee selection, which is a decision environment that typically has the aforementioned characteristics that are conducive for intuition, scholars discount the usefulness of intuition in favor of more objective, analytical selection methods such …
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Effects of uniform guidelines on employee selection procedures in college placement offices
… origin. In 1978, the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures were jointly issued by several federal administrative agencies and have included within their framework the types of employment selection practices operating in many contemporary college and university placement …
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Social capital in Jordan: the impact of wasta on employee selection in banks operating in Jordan
… main lens to investigate HRM, recruitment and selection, and line managers’ perceptions of the impact of wasta on employment selection in Jordan. Identity research, namely social identity theory, social categorisation theory and role identity theory, is used to extend on and critique social …
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The Effects of Rejected Job Offers on the Costs and Benefits Associated with the Use of Banding Strategies for Employee Selection
Among the available selection strategies (e.g., top down selection), sliding bands with minority preference selection was shown to be the most effective at striking a balance between reducing adverse impact with minimal test utility loss. Unfortunately, all previous research into selection strategy …
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The Effects of Selection System Characteristics and Privacy Needs on Procedural Justice Perceptions: An Investigation of Social Networking Data in Employee Selection
… the use of social networking site information in employee selection. As in Gilliland’s model, selection system characteristics altered procedural justice rule perceptions. These rule perceptions were then related to overall procedural justice perceptions of the selection system. It was also …
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Test coaching on assessments of cognitive constructs
… future test candidates. Unlike academic testing, employee selection tests generally have longer test windows and are less likely to implement new test items or have multiple parallel forms for the sake of test security. Therefore, it is important to study whether test takers can benefit from item …
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Employment Credit Checks: Through the Lens of Organizational Justice and Workplace Discrimination
The use of consumer credit background checks in employee selection has been increasing and, in recent years, has been the topic of heated debate. Supporters and opponents contest the benefits and consequences of the use of credit background checks for personnel selection, with arguments on both …
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Cognitive ability and computer simulation
… currently available. Tests of GMA used for selection purposes carry potential for adverse impact if used as a primary tool for employee selection; however, a factor of GMA known as Fluid Intelligence (Gf) should represent a more equitable assessment construct. Computer simulations appear to …
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Investigating a leadership fix for a suboptimal mix: a transformational leadership intervention for teams with incompatible personalities
… task performance, participants performed an employee selection task, and to assess disjunctive task performance participants performed a NASA survival ranking task. Performance was measured against expert ratings on these tasks. Hypotheses were that dyadic teams based on the pairing of highly …
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Combined influence of personality and leader member exchange on task and citizenship performance
… their effectiveness, research suggests that employee performance should be an obvious consideration due to the significant influence employee behavior can have on organizational outcomes. The present study evaluated the relationship between the personality traits of Conscientiousness and …
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Discrimination in personnel decisions: the effects of applicant sex and physical attractiveness
Recent reviews of research on employee selection have shown that both sex-role stereotypes and physical attractiveness stereotypes have pronounced effects on the personnel evaluations received by attractive or unattractive male or female applicants when applying for particular jobs. With the …
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The consistency of the use of the psychological evaluation during the selection process among law enforcement agencies
… as part of the law enforcement candidate selection process. The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) provides guidelines for the psychological evaluation, but research has found that law enforcement agencies use a variety of procedures with no consensus as to what should be …
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Reducing false starts among IT employees—A study of hiring professionals’ perceptions
… is recruiting and retaining talented employees. A false start is an issue where an employee is hired for a certain position following the organization’s recruiting process; however, within the first year, the employee or the employer realizes that it is not a right fit, and the …
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Predicting Score Change: An Empirical Investigation of Cheating on Unproctored Employment Tests
… from Amazon MTurk completed a UIT used for employee selection first under honest conditions and then under cheating conditions. Results indicated that not all test takers were able to increase their scores by cheating; cheating effectiveness depended upon the interaction between cognitive …
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The application of a person-oriented criterion-related configural approach to the relationship between personality traits and work behaviors
… usefulness of a configurally-based approach to employee selection are proposed and discussed.
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Proactive Personality and the Big Five as Predictors of Motivation to Learn
… learn is believed to represent a key variable in employee self-development that distinguishes employees who will thrive from those who will not. Predicting this variable, then, becomes an important step in managing workforce development and helping employees help themselves. Therefore, the …
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Corporate social responsibility in the New Zealand hotel industry: An explorative study
… hotel industry and the effect this has on hotel employees' CSR participation. Importantly, previous studies have indicated that employee involvement in CSR has been shown to result a more committed and loyal workforce. This study has indicated that through a greater CSR participation, hotel …
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