ABSTRACT
Robert Guion’s best seller is now available in this new second edition. This noted book offers a comprehensive and practical view of assessment –based personnel decisions not available elsewhere in a single source. This edition more frankly evaluates the current research and practice and presents challenges that will change the basic thinking about staffing systems.
This new edition suggests new directions for research and practice, includes emphasis on modern computers and technology useful in assessment, and pays more attention to prediction of individual growth and globalization challenges in the assessment process. The book will be of interest to faculty and students in Industrial Organizational psychology, human resource management and business. IO psychologists in private business and public sector organizations who have responsibilities for staffing and an interest in measurement and statistics will find this book useful.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |153 pages
Foundations for Personnel Decisions
chapter |29 pages
Membership Decisions in Organizations
chapter |45 pages
Analysis of Selection Problems
chapter |42 pages
Developing the Predictive Hypothesis
chapter |33 pages
The Legal Context for Personnel Decisions
part |178 pages
Psychometric and Statistical Foundations
chapter |31 pages
Basic Concepts in Measurement
chapter |38 pages
Further Concepts in Measurement
chapter |41 pages
Bivariate Prediction of Performance
chapter |36 pages
The Use of Multivariate Statistics
chapter |28 pages
Bias, Group Differences, and Adverse Impact
part |220 pages
Assessment Methods