PSYC 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Criterion Validity, Bus Driver, Job Performance
7 Dec 2016
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Evaluative standards that can be used as indicators of success or failure. Ex: voting for president: who has the most experience in office, who has the most consistent voting record, who gives the most inspiring. Attentive: bus driver knows rules of the road, novelist- creative and interesting. Decisions based on bad criteria choices are problematic for both legal and organizational performance reasons: ex: firing an employee for arriving to work late. The criterion of greatest interest to i/o psychologists: is performance. Actual on the job behaviors that are relevant to an organization"s goals. Theoretical, ideal representation of all relevant performance aspects that define success on a job: encompasses everything that defines job performance, abstract concept (a construct, complex (multidimensional), seldom completely knowable or accessible. Choose elements that are most important (job analysis can help here) Fill in the blanks below and add definitions for each: ***above boxes left to right: criterion deficiency, relevance (validity), and criterion.
