PSYC 3070 Chapter Notes - Chapter pg25-56: Wonderlic Test, Face Validity, Unstructured Interview
10 Jan 2016
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Scientific methods enable employers to hire applicants with ksao (knowledge, skills, abilities, or other attributes) Test used by department of work pensions (dwp) was never validated. Reliability and validity are essential to the legal defensibility of any selection procedure. Science based selection produces employees that are efficient and productive. The components that make up a selection system are: job analysis: Employer"s goal: hire applicant who possesses the ksaos required to successfully perform the job. The job requirements have been determined by systematic investigations (job analysis) There are many differences between science-based and practice-based processes for selection. Identify ksao constructs: develop predictors related to ksao, obtain predictor data. Performance domain: identify job dimensions: develop criteria related to job dimensions, obtain criteria data. Use the predictor data and criteria data to answer following questions: If answer yes to those questions, then continue to implement the selection system. Finally: re-analyze job, review performance and ksao constructs, review criteria and predictors.
