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Testing and Selecting Employees
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• A predictive exercise• Managerial decision makers seeking to
predict which job applicants will be successful if hired
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Why is selection important?
• First - your own performance depends in part on your subordinates. Employees with the right skills and attributes will do a better job for you and the company
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Why is selection important?
• Second - it’s costly to recruit and hire employees
• Third - the legal implications of incompetent selection – negligent hiring
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Why selection is important?
A B
C D
good
poor
selected Not selected
Actual performance
Outcome of selection process
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Reliability
Consistency of scores obtained by the same person when retested with the identical tests or with an equivalent form of a test.
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Validity
• Tests must be valid, or measure what they are supposed to measure
• A test should be job related - performance on a test should be a valid predictor of subsequent performance on the job
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Demonstrating a test’s validity
• Criterion validity • Demonstrating criterion validity -
those who do well on the test also do well on the job, and those who do poorly on the test do poorly on the job
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Criterion related validity
• Predictive validity• Concurrent validity
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Demonstrating a test’s validity
• Content validity • showing that the test constitutes a
fair sample of the content of a job
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Selection process
• Initial screening interview • Completion of application blank• Employment tests• Comprehensive interviews• Background investigation• Medical examination• Final employment decision
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Initial screening
• To eliminate a large number of candidates who are obviously not suitable
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Application Blank
• Ranges from very short to a six page
comprehensive personal profile
wide scope to give false data
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Weighted application blank
• Studying the relationship between biographical data requested on the form and success on the job
• Weights have been assigned to such factors as qualification etc.
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employment tests
• Employers use tests to measure a wide range of candidate attributes, including cognitive (mental) abilities, motor and physical abilities, personality and interests, and achievement
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Ethical and Legal Questions in Testing
1) You must be able to prove that your tests were related to success or failure on the job
(2) You must prove that your tests don’t unfairly discriminate against either minority or non-minority subgroups
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• Intelligence tests, such as IQ tests, are tests of general intellectual abilities including memory, vocabulary, verbal fluency, and numeric ability
www.wonderlic.com
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• Tests of Motor and Physical Abilities - measure finger dexterity, strength, manual dexterity, and reaction time
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Hand Tool Dexterity Test
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• Personality and interests inventories are used as predictors of motivation and interpersonal skills
• Personality tests measure basic aspects of an applicant’s personality, such as introversion, stability, and motivation
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• Personality tests—particularly the projective type—are the most difficult to evaluate and use
• studies confirm that personality tests can help companies hire more effective workers
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Personality tests
• Emphasize the “big five” personality dimensions as they apply to personnel testing: extroversion, emotional stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience
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• Conscientiousness shows a consistent relationship with all job performance criteria for all the occupations.
• Extroversion is a valid predictor of performance for managers and sales employees
• Openness to experience and extroversion predicted training proficiency for all occupations
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• Interest inventories compare one’s interests with those of people in various occupations
• Achievement Tests are a measure of what a person has learned
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Work samples &simulations
• Work sampling technique measures how a employee actually performs some of the basic job tasks
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Video based tests
• Video based situational tests• Presenting candidates with several
scenarios followed by multiple choice questions
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The MJTE approach
• The miniature job training & evaluation approach
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Management Assessment Centers
• Management candidates take tests and make decisions in simulated situations.
• Lasts two or three days and involves 10 to 12 management candidates performing realistic management tasks
• Can be expensive to operate
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Management Assessment Centers
• The in-basket - The candidate is faced with an accumulation of reports, memos, notes of incoming phone calls, letters, and other materials
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Management Assessment Centers
• The leaderless group discussion. A leaderless group is given a discussion question and told to arrive at a group decision.
• The raters then evaluate each group member’s interpersonal skills, acceptance by the group, leadership ability, and individual influence
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Management Assessment Centers
• Individual presentations. A participant’s communication skills and persuasiveness are evaluated by having the person make an oral presentation on an assigned topic
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Selection Interview
• Selection procedure designed to predict future job performance on the basis of applicants’ oral responses to oral inquiries
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Selection Interview
• Non-structured - Interviewer asks questions as they come to mind,
• no set format to follow
• Structured - questions are specified in advance and the responses may be rated for appropriateness of content
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Structured interviews
• Structured interviews are generally more valid
• can also help inexperienced interviewers to ask questions and conduct useful interviews.
• structured interviews don’t always leave the flexibility to pursue points of interest as they develop
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• Situational interviews - questions focus on the candidate’s ability to project what his or her behavior would be in a given situation
A customer comes inangry and upset. How would you handle this situation?
A deadline for a project is near and it looks like you won’t meet the deadline. How would you handle this?
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• Behavioral interview
• Applicants asked how they behaved in the past in some situation
Describe a time when you were faced
with a stressful situation that
demonstrated your coping skills.
Give me a specific example of a time when you had to
conform to a policy with which you did not agree
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• Sequential interview - several persons interview the applicant in sequence before a selection decision is made
• Panel interview - candidate is interviewed simultaneously by a group (or panel) of interviewers
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Common Interviewing Mistakes
• Snap Judgments • Negative Emphasis• Pressure to Hire • Candidate Order (Contrast) Error • Influence of Nonverbal Behavior
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Common Interviewing Mistakes
• An interviewer should remember to keep an open mind and consciously work against being preoccupied with negative feedback.
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Common Interviewing Mistakes
Not Knowing the Job • Interviewers who don’t know
precisely what the job entails and what sort of candidate is best suited for it usually make decisions based on incorrect stereotypes about what makes a good applicant
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Guidelines for Conducting an Interview
• Plan the Interview - start the interview with a clear picture of the traits of an ideal candidate.
• Structure the interview - assures greater consistency, but helps to make sure that you are asking questions that provide real insight into how the person will perform on the job
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Increase the standardization of the interview
• Base questions on actual job duties • Use job knowledge, situational, or
behaviorally oriented questions and objective criteria to evaluate the interviewee’s responses
• Train interviewers • Use the same questions with all candidates • Use rating scales to rate answers • Use multiple interviewers or panel interviews • Take brief notes during the interview
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Guidelines for Conducting an Interview
• Establish Rapport
• Be aware of the applicant’s status
• Make it clear you’re going to conduct reference checks
• Close the Interview
• Try to end all interviews on a positive note
• Review your interview notes
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• Don’t ask questions that can be answered “yes” or “no
• Don’t put words in the applicant’s mouth or telegraph the desired answer
• Don’t interrogate the applicant as if the person is a criminal, and don’t be patronizing, sarcastic, or inattentive.
• Don’t monopolize the interview by rambling
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• Do ask open-ended questions • Do listen to the candidate to
encourage him or her to express thoughts fully
• Do draw out the applicant’s opinions and feelings by repeating the person’s last comment as a question
• Do ask for examples
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Background Investigations and Reference Checks
• Why? • verify the accuracy of factual
information provided by the applicant• uncover damaging background
information such as criminal records and suspended drivers’ licenses.
• Always get at least two forms of identification and always require applicants to fill at a job application
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• Polygraph Tests • the law prohibits
most employers from conducting polygraph examinations of all applicants and most employees
• Graphology • Drug Screening
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• Discrete selection process • Comprehensive selection process
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• How to treat rejected candidates – the role of proper communication