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UNDERSTANDING EMPLOYMENT ISSUES AND PROCESSES
In the next two chapters you will be able to apply more of the methodological issues from Chapter 2. Effective employee staffing, screening, testing, and selection require grounding in research and measurement issues, particularly reliability and validity. In addition, the foundation for employee selection is job analysis (Chapter 3).
When considering the steps in the employee selection process, it is important that one note the influence exerted by federal legislation and court decisions. Federal guidelines developed to prevent employment discrimination have, in a sense, required employers to take a hard look at the quality of the methods used to recruit, screen, and select employees. 91This has led to the greater involvement of I/O psychologists in the development of more accurate and fairer employee screening, selection, and placement procedures.
Because employee issues deal with the care and nurturing of an organization’s human resources and because psychology often has a similar concern with human potential, there is a natural link between psychology and personnel work. As a result, many students trained in psychology and other social sciences are drawn to careers in human resources.
