Rethinking Interviewing and Personnel Selection / by T. Oliveira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oliveira, T., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial organization.

Personnel management.

Management.

Strategic planning.

Leadership.

Career development.

Economics.

Organization.

Human Resource Management.

Business Strategy and Leadership.

Careers in Business and Management.

Local Subjects:

Organization.

Human Resource Management.

Management.

Business Strategy and Leadership.

Careers in Business and Management.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The case studies in Rethinking Interviewing and Personnel Selection find support for Herriot (1993, 2003) and Fletcher's (1997, 2003) claims that the selection interview is a social process which may gain from a degree of semi-structured interaction with candidates.

Contents:

Cover; Rethinking Interviewing and Personnel Selection; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Introduction; 1 What Selection Theory Claims; The normative mission; Box 1.1 Inviting inferential overload; Principles, norms and practice; Questions on bias; Survival of the fittest; Cognitive fit and candidate fit; Person-job and person-organisation fit; Social and cultural differences; Implications; 2 Who Knows for a Fact?; Understanding in context; perceptions and paradigms; Schema and socio-cognitive dynamics; Rethinking schema and scripts

Tacit knowledgeNot by focal attention; Tacit rules, implicit norms and selection; 3 Yet How Do We Know?; Competing hemispheric rationalities; Box 3.1 Left and right hemispheric thinking; Hume and after; The self and the other; Implicit learning and tacit knowledge; The cognitive continuum; Neural Darwinism; Referential rationality; The socially constructed self; 4 What's the Logic?; Conscious and unconscious logic; Grammar, symmetrisation and unconscious logic; Tacit rules and implicit norms; Norms and mental models; Iterative logic, fractals and semi-structured interviewing

Iterative method and selection sequencing5 Where's the Proof?; Predictors and proof; Cognition and prediction; Questions on verification; Grounded theory and selection; Social construction, discourse and verification; 6 Why Dismiss Intuition?; Intuition and scientific method; Recognising intuition; Intuition's setback; No time to reflect; Premise dependence; Intuition as iterative processing; Intuition and tacit knowledge; Intuition and selection decision-making; Box 6.1 Intuition, cognition and understanding; An alternative conceptual framework; 7 Interviewing and Psychological Contract

Bourdieu's habitusThe interview as a psychological contract; Perceptions and presumptions; Career anchors and plateaux; Theory and practice; 8 Tacit Knowledge and Implicit Learning; Learning from work and from life; Making sense of experience; Fractal insights; Starting from the self; Case study A - Identifying lifelong learning; Surfacing tacit knowledge and implicit learning; Findings and implications; 9 Rethinking Selection Theory; Sets-within-sets of meaning; Level, content and role fit; The interview as iteration; Dispositional and situational logics; Dichotomising interviewing methods

Integrating structured and iterative methodsGaining a balance; 10 What Managers Have in Mind; Not initially premised; The selection context; Content analysis; Case study B - Personnel selection in a public broadcasting corporation; Surfacing tacit knowledge in choice of selection criteria; Structured and semi-structured interviewing; Selectors and selection sequencing; Findings; Different rationales but consistent logic; Implicit sets of criteria; Situational and dispositional logics; Unconscious logic and procedural and distributive justice; Findings

Structured and semi-structured panel interviewing

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349505067

1349505064