[英文版]人力资源管理概论-Employee Testing and Selection(ppt 50页).ppt

Employee Testing and Selection Why Careful Selection is Important The importance of selecting the right employees Organizational performance always depends in part on subordinates having the right skills and attributes. Recruiting and hiring employees is costly. The legal implications of incompetent hiring EEO laws and court decisions related to nondiscriminatory selection procedures The liability of negligent hiring of workers with questionable backgrounds Avoiding Negligent Hiring Claims Carefully scrutinize information supplied by the applicant on his or her employment application. Get the applicant’s written authorization for reference checks, and carefully check references. Save all records and information you obtain about the applicant. Reject applicants who make false statements of material facts or who have conviction records for offenses directly related and important to the job in question. Balance the applicant’s privacy rights with others’ “need to know,” especially when you discover damaging information. Take immediate disciplinary action if problems arise. Basic Testing Concepts Reliability The consistency of scores obtained by the same person when retested with the identical or equivalent tests. Are the test results stable over time? Test validity The accuracy with which a test, interview, and so on measures what it purports to measure or fulfills the function it was designed to fill. Does the test actually measure what we need for it to measure? Sample Picture Card fromThematic Apperception Test Types of Validity Criterion validity A type of validity based on showing that scores on the test (predictors) are related to job performance (criterion). Are test scores in this class related to students’ knowledge of human resource management? Content validity A test that is content valid is one that contains a fair sample of the tasks and skills actually needed for the job in question. Do the test questions in this course relate to human resource managem