ABSTRACT
The primary purpose of this edited volume is to provide students and entry-level practitioners with practical, systematic guidance on how to develop and evaluate the kinds of measurement instruments frequently used in the management of human resources. The authors, therefore, take a decidedly applied or how-to approach to instrument development and evaluation. Their prescriptions are logically organized and follow the process one would actually undertake to determine the constructs to measure, the measurement techniques to use, and the reliability, validity, fairness, and legal defensibility of the resulting assessments. Accordingly, the volume contains five major sections: conducting job analyses, developing a test plan, developing measures to predict job performance, developing measures of job performance per se, and conducting studies to assess the quality and defensibility of the measurement program.
