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Assessment Centre
Assessment Centre
INTRODUCTION
Assessment Centre (AC): A guiding tool used by HRM to evaluate and develop personnel in terms of attributes or abilities relevant to organizational effectiveness
Uses: 1. Selection 2. Career development 3. Potential appraisal 4. Succession planning 5. Challenging assignments allocations 6. Management development 7. Identification of a global pool of talented managers
IQ test
Psychological test Communication skills test Reasoning skill test Technical competencies
ASSESSMENT CENTERS
PROMETRIC PEARSON VUE COMPUTERISED ADAPTIVE
TESTING
MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Introduced the concept of assessment centres in 1998 Senior management and middle management professionals assessed The need to identify future leaders Making right investments Professionals trained to take up leadership positions
ASSESSING COMPETENCIES
Written as well as oral individual/group exercises Measurement of an individuals current and future potential in role-related competencies AC centre a tool to measure spectrum of purposes ranging from recruitment to promotions to redundancy identification
Third party institutions Offer a variety of test with accurate scoring systems Allow employers to choose the type of test Simultaneous testing of multiple applicants Makes hiring convenient Saves a company hiring cost
CASE STUDIES
1999 Kargil war Dantewada incident Indias DRDO
Mujahedeen sitting on Mountain Tops armed with outdated Stingers purloined from the Afghan - Soviet War.
They preferred to fly at great altitude and rain down Bombs on the
lines
The hapless wounded Jawans were carried down on the back of their
comrades and evacuated by the brave Pilots of the Army's own Aviation
THE ANSWER IS
COWARDICE AND LACK
OF LEADERSHIP
Dantewada incident
CRPF is a law and order force rather than for
counter-insurgency operations. Leadership in CRPF is not praiseworthy. Unless troops and officers are trained and are in the thick of action together, the leadership will continue to suffer. The lack of able leadership led to the death of 76 troops.
Indias DRDO
Delays and failures of indigenous defence products 48 of the fighters are set to be inducted into the Air Force Cost and time overruns of major defence projects like: The Light Combat Aircraft The Arjun Tank The Kaveri engine The Akash Surface to Air Missile
The inability of the research body to involve the Armed Forces in developmental projects from the
start Poor planning Over-optimistic timelines Lack of coordination Over estimating capabilities Reduces its war-fighting potential.
Management facilitating Talent acquisition Recruitment Succession planning Candidate selection Still a novelty whose significance corporate India is trying to understand