Handbook of employee selection / edited by James L. Farr, Nancy T. Tippins. - New York : Routledge, c2010. - xxviii, 1001 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Handbook of employee selection : an introduction and overview / Reliability and validity / Validation strategies for primary studies / Work analysis / Current concepts of validity, validation, and generalizability / Attracting job candidates to organizations / Test administration and the use of test scores / Technology and employee selection / Strategy, selection, and sustained competitive advantage / Managing sustainable selection programs / business value of employee selection / Cognitive abilities / Physical performance tests / Personality : its measurement and validity for employee selection / Values, styles, and motivational constructs / Practical intelligence, emotional intelligence, and social intelligence / Decisions in developing and selecting assessment tools / Administering assessments and decision-making / Evaluation of measures : sources of error, sufficiency, and contamination / Assessment feedback / measurement of task performance as criteria in selection research / Adaptive and citizenship-related behaviors at work / Counterproductive work behavior and withdrawal / Defining and measuring results of workplace behavior / Employee work-related health, stress, and safety / Criterion validity and criterion deficiency : what we measure well and what we ignore / Ethics of employee selection / Professional guidelines/standards / sampler of legal principles in employment selection / Perspectives from twenty-two countries on the legal environment for selection / Selection and classification in the U.S. Military / Public sector employment / Selection methods and desired outcomes : integrating assessment content and technology to improve entry- and mid-level leadership performance / Blue-collar selection in private sector organizations / Selection for service and sales jobs / Selection in multinational organizations / Selection for team membership : a contingency and multilevel perspective / Selecting leaders : executives and high potentials / management progress study and its legacy for selection / Project A : 12 years of R & D / James L. Farr and Nancy T. Tippins -- Dan J. Putka and Paul R. Sackett -- Neal W. Schmitt, John D. Arnold, and Levi Nieminen -- Kenneth Pearlman and Juan I. Sanchez -- Jerard F. Kehoe and Kevin R. Murphy -- Ann Marie Ryan and Tanya Delany -- Jeff W. Johnson and Frederick L. Oswald -- Douglas H. Reynolds and David N. Dickter -- Robert E. Ployhart and Jeff A. Weekley -- Jerard F. Kehoe, Stefan T. Mol, and Neil R. Anderson -- Wayne F. Sacsio and Lawrence Fogli -- Deniz S. Ones, Stephan Dilchert, Chockalingam Viswesvaran, and Jesus F. Salgado -- Deborah L. Gebhardt and Todd A. Baker -- Leaetta Hough and Stephan Dilchert -- David Chan -- Filip Lievens and David Chan -- Nancy T. Tippins, Jone M. Papinchock, and Emily C. Solberg -- . Stephen Wunder, Lisa L. Thomas, and Zupei Luo -- Michael J. Zickar, Jose M. Cortina, and Nathan T. Carter -- Manuel London and Lynn A. McFarland -- Walter C. Borman, Rebecca H. Bryant, and Jay Dorio -- David W. Dorsey, Jose M. Cortina, and Joseph Luchman -- Maria Rotundo and Paul E. Spector -- Elaine D. Pulakos and Ryan S. O'Leary -- Lois E. Tetrick, Pamela L. Perrewe, and Mark Griffin -- Jeanette N. Cleveland and Adrienne Colella -- Joel Lefkowitz and Rodney L. Lowman -- P. Richard Jeanneret and Sheldon Zedeck -- Frank J. Landy, Arthur Gutman, and James L. Outtz -- Paul R. Sackett, Winny Shen, Brett Myors, and Colleagues -- Waqyne S. Sellman, Dana H. Born, William J. Strickland, and Jason J. Ross -- Rick Jacobs and Donna L. Denning -- Scott C. Erker, Charles J. Cosentino, and Kevin B. Tamanini -- Wands J. Campbell and Robert A. Ramos -- John P. Hausknecht and Angela M. Langevin -- Paula Caligiuri and Karen B. Paul -- Susan Mohammed, Jan Cannon-Bowers, and Su Chuen Foo -- George C. Thornton III, George P. Hollenbeck, and Stefanie K. Johnson -- Ann Howard -- John P. C. The -- The -- A -- The --

The Handbook of Employee Selection provides a comprehensive review of a) contemporary personnel selection instruments, including the technical methodology for their development and evaluation of their effectiveness, b) the organizational systems necessary for the effective and efficient use of personnel selection methods as part of organizations human resource management approach, and c) the societal and organizational factors that provide the context within which personnel selection is nested. The Handbook will include descriptions of specific examples of personnel selection procedures that have had major impact on the development of personnel selection function within organizations, as well as discussions of current and future trends in employee selection around the world.

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Employee selection.
Employee selection--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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