ABSTRACT
A book of this kind contains many research findings and theoretical perspectives. The danger is to focus on one finding or one set of findings and to miss the general pattern that emerges. If the general picture is to emerge, the use of some kind of framework is indispensable. As Schuler, Farr, and Smith show in Chapter 1, the use of a clear framework has the enormous additional advantage of allowing the identification of gaps in the research effort. To encompass the range of material covered in this book, a very wide framework is needed. One particular framework, the general selection paradigm (Smith & Robertson, 1993), is readily available (see Fig. 21.1). It shows the classic conceptualization of the selection process and is implicit in work in the subject. The general selection paradigm is an idealized view that envisages the process as six main phases. The paradigm was developed from a technocratic view and represents a kind of flow chart designed to improve the accuracy of selection. As Schuler and de Wolff have pointed out in this book, the technocratic view is important but perhaps narrow. Nevertheless, it might be helpful to use the paradigm to organize the findings from the organizational and individual perspectives. The selection paradigm. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203772706/4ed072cd-f1b6-40d0-b9d3-111db00c2cbd/content/fig21_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
