ABSTRACT
This chapter provides perspective on assessments used for selecting and advancing/promoting employees. We start with a broad overview of how employees are selected, then focus on what is going on in today’s police departments. The same strategy is used in our presentation on promotion systems before we move on to specifi c issues confronted when organizations engage in assessment and use the information to make employment decisions. The chapter concludes with a brief overview of legal issues facing police agencies as they attempt to identify talent to join the organization or to move up the rank structure and how we can successfully design and implement programs that encompass best practices and avoid legal complications.
