Summary
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Understanding Occupational and Organizational Psychology provides full coverage of the British Psychological Society's training requirements for becoming a chartered occupational psychologist and complies with European training guidelines for industrial, work, and organizational psychology. This book will prompt and inspire further reading and research as well as ideas for dissertations, problem formulation and the creative application of knowledge to various situations.
Selection and Assessment
Selection and Assessment
Preface
Selection and assessment are seminal topics within occupational psychology. Early interest was driven by the need to select good military personnel. By the mid 1950s, the field was criticized for being overly technical, lacking theoretical insight. Cynicism was compounded by Equal Opportunity arguments that many of the favoured measures discriminated against minority groups. Recent recognition of the strategic potential of selection to enhance organizational performance reinvigorated the field. However, some critics note that many of the most sophisticated selection techniques still await constructvalidation. Progress may be held back by practitioners seduced by complex selection procedures regardless of conceptual integrity and irrespective of predictive power. Beliefs about validity are not the same as actual validity. Unfortunately, technical rather than psychological considerations ...
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