Exploring the limits of personnel selection and classification / edited by John P. Campbell and Deirdre J. Knapp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campbell, John Paul, 1937-

Knapp, Deirdre J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employee selection.

Personnel management.

Performance standards.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (657 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beginning in the early 1980s and continuing through the middle 1990s, the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) sponsored a comprehensive research and development program to evaluate and enhance the Army's personnel selection and classification procedures. This was a set of interrelated efforts, collectively known as Project A. Project A had a number of basic and applied research objectives pertaining to selection and classification decision making. It focused on the entire selection and classification system for Army enlisted personnel and addressed researc

Contents:

Cover; EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF PERSONNEL SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Foreword; About the Editors and Contributors; I INTRODUCTION AND MAJOR ISSUES; 1 Matching People and Jobs: An Introduction to Twelve Years of R&D; 2 A Paradigm Shift; 3 The Army Selection and Classification Research Program: Goals, Overall Design, and Organization; II SPECIFICATION AND MEASUREMENT OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES FOR PREDICTING PERFORMANCE

4 The Search for New Measures: Sampling From a Population of Selection/Classification Predictor Variables5 The Measurement of Cognitive, Perceptual, and Psychomotor Abilities; 6 Assessment of Personality, Temperament, Vocational Interests, and Work Outcome Preferences; III SPECIFICATION AND MEASUREMENT OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN JOB PERFORMANCE; 7 Analyzing Jobs for Performance Measurement; 8 Performance Assessment for a Population of Jobs; IV DEVELOPING THE DATABASE AND MODELING PREDICTOR AND CRITERION SCORES; 9 Data Collection and Research Database Management on a Large Scale

10 The Experimental Battery: Basic Attribute Scores for Predicting Performance in a Population of Jobs11 Modeling Performance in a Population of Jobs; 12 Criterion Reliability and the Prediction of Future Performance from Prior Performance; V SELECTION VALIDATION, DIFFERENTIAL PREDICTION, VALIDITY GENERALIZATION, AND CLASSIFICATION EFFICIENCY; 13 The Prediction of Multiple Components of Entry-Level Performance; 14 The Prediction of Supervisory and Leadership Performance; 15 Synthetic Validation and Validity Generalization: When Empirical Validation is Not Possible

16 Personnel Classification and Differential Job Assignments: Estimating Classification Gains17 Environmental Context Effects on Performance and the Prediction of Performance; VI APPLICATION OF FINDINGS: THE ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT OF IMPLEMENTATION; 18 ABLE Implementation Issues and Related Research; 19 Application of Findings: ASVAB, New Aptitude Tests, and Personnel Classification; VII EPILOGUE; 20 Implications for Future Personnel Research and Personnel Management; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 591-612) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-135-68601-7

1-138-00274-7

1-135-68602-5

1-4106-0024-6

0-415-64771-1

9781410600240

OCLC:

437147474