Aptitude measures (prediction & selection)

Criterion (job performance) measures

Performance Appraisal & Feedback

Training Proficiency

Job Proficiency

Training Evaluation

Interviews

Unstructured

"Where are you from?"

"California."

"Oh, yeah, I have a cousin who lives near..."

Structured

"What did you like least about your last job?"

Biodata

Own a car?

Ever build model airplanes that flew?

Personality & attitudes

Extroversion

Conscientiousness

Attitude towards theft

Cognitive Ability

g

mechanical aptitude

Measures of job knowledge (paper & pencil)

nursing

real estate law

Situational judgment tests

Teller test

Physical Ability Tests

Tweezers

Color vision

Ergos

Work simulations & samples

Welding

Assessment Centers

Two major types of test

1. Overt

2. Personality Based

Both attempt to identify deviant or counterproductive behavior.

Examples of behaviors

Sample tests

EI

PSI-7

Concurrent validation study in a chain drug store

Correlations among criteria

Correlations between tests and criteria

Correlations between tests and tests

Implications: 1. Some evidence for usefulness of tests.

2. different tests appear to measure different things.

3. deviant behavior on the job may be multifaceted.