6 Employee Testing

and Selection

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 Learning Objectives

6-1. Answer the question: Why is it

important to test and select employees?
6-2. Explain what is meant by reliability and
validity. 4-

6-3. List and briefly describe the basic

categories of selection tests, with
examples.

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 Learning Objectives

6-4. Explain how to use two work

simulations for selection.
6-5. Describe four ways
4- to improve an
employer’s background checking
process.

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 I.
Answer the question:
Why is it important to
test and select
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employees?

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 Why Employee Selection Is
Important

• Performance
• Cost
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• Legal obligations
• Person and
job/organization fit

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 II.
Explain what is meant by
reliability and validity.
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 The Basic of Testing and
Selecting Employees
• Reliability
• Validity
o Criterion validity 4-
o Content validity
o Construct validity

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 Test Reliability

• Reliability- is a selection tool’s first

requirement. It is defined as the
consistency of scores obtained by the
same person when4-retested with the
identical tests or with alternate forms of
the same test.

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What Can Cause a Test to be Unreliable?

• physical conditions

• differences in the test taker

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• differences in test 4-
administration

• the questions may do a poor

job of sampling the material

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Reliability Coefficient

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 Test Validity

• Validity- is a selection tool’s defined as the

accuracy with which a test, interview, and
so on, measure what is purports to
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measure or fulfills the function it was
designed to fill.

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 How to demonstrate Validity?

1. Criterion Validity
2. Content Validity
3. Construct Validity 4-

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 Bias
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Utility Analysis
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Validity Generalization
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 Test Taker’s Individual
Rights and 4-Test Security

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Diversity Counts

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 III.
List and briefly describe the
basic categories4-
of selection
tests, with examples.

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 Types of Tests

1. Test of Cognitive Abilities

o Intelligence tests (IQ)
o Specific cognitive abilities
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2. Test of Motor & physical abilities

3. Measuring Personality and Interests
o Interest inventories

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 Types of Tests

4. Interest inventories
5. Achievement tests
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 IV.
Explain how to use two
work simulations
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for
selection.

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Work Samples and Simulations
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 Using Work Sampling for
Employee Selection

1. Basic procedure
2. Situational judgment tests
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3. Management Assessment Centers

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 V.
Describe four ways to improve
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an employer’s background
checking process.

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Background Investigations and
Other Selection Method

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Why Perform Background Investigations
and Reference Checks?
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How to Check a Candidates
Background?
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Using Pre-employment Information
Services

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Making the Background Check
More Valuable

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The Polygraph and Honesty Testing

• Meet Standards
• Written Honest Test
• Testing for Honesty4-
Guidelines

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Physical Exams

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Substance Abuse Screening
and
Drug Testing Legal Issues

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 Chapter 6 Review

What you should now know….

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