Chapter 6 Selecting Employees

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Chapter 6Selecting Employees

• Human resource planning
• Methods of recruitment
• Steps if a validation study
• Scientific approaches to selection

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The Planning of HR Needs

• Organizations needs and People supply
• Selection approach and training approach
• Supply of people

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Recruiting Applicants

• Sources of recruitment advertising, employee
  referral, employment agencies, school recruiters,
  walk-ins

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Selecting Employees

• Criterion-related validity approach
• Alternative procedures

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How do we select employees?

• Two elements Criterion (e.g. attendance, work
  quantity) and predictor (e.g. KSAOs)
• Conduct a validation study

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Validation Study

• Five steps
• Conduct a job analysis
• Specify criteria
• Choose Predictors
• Validate
• Cross-validate (Figure 6-3)

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Conduct a Job Analysis

• Information about the Tasks and KSAOs
• E.g. Manager manage a budget knowledge about
  basic mathmatics

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Job Criterion

• Criterion for good job performance
• Manager stayed within budget mathematic
  ability

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Choose Predictors

• KSAOs
• E.g. College education
• Methods assess KSAOs assessment centers,
  biographical inventories, interviews,
  psychological tests, work samples

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Validate the Predictors

• Concurrent validation study
• Predictive validity design

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Cross-Validate

• Replicate the results of one sample with another
  sample
• Correlation and repeat

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Use of Predictor Information

• Multiple Hurdles
• Regression Approach simple and multiple

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Alternatives to validation

• Purchase existing selection devices
• Consulting firms

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Getting Applicants to Accept

• Salary
• Negotiation of benefit
• Realistic job preview (RJP)

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Utility of Scientific Selection

• Baserate
• Selection ratio
• Validity