ABSTRACT
Employee selection is a major human resources function in work organizations. Employee selection refers to the process that employers use to make decisions concerning which individuals from a group to choose for particular jobs or roles within the organization. Although frequently the job candidates are not employed by the organization at the time selection decisions are made, employee selection can also refer to cases in which current organizational employees may be candidates for another job (e.g., a promotion to a higher organizational level or a lateral move to a different unit or function). Guion (1998) has noted that the same selection logic also applies to other types of human resource decisions, such as choosing which employees should be offered participation in skill or competency development programs.
