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Management 1
Management 1
Human Resource
Policies and Practices
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
S T E P H E N P. R O B B I N S
E L E V E N T H E D I T I O N
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Selection Devices
Interviews
– Are the most frequently used selection tool.
– Carry a great deal of weight in the selection process.
– Can be biased toward those who “interview well.”
– Should be structured to ensure against distortion due
to interviewers’ biases.
– Are better for assessing applied mental skills,
conscientiousness, interpersonal skills, and person-
organization fit of the applicant.
Individual and
Off-the-Job
Group Training Informal Training
Training
Methods
On-the-Job
Training
Readings Lectures
Learning
Styles
Participation and
Experiential Visual Aids
Exercises
Individual Task
Behaviors
Outcomes
Performance
Evaluation
Traits
Immediate
Supervisor
Peers
Self-Evaluation
Immediate
Subordinates
Written Essay
A narrative describing an employee’s strengths,
weaknesses, past performances, potential, and
suggestions for improvement.
Critical Incidents
Evaluating the behaviors that are key in making the
difference between executing a job effectively and
executing it ineffectively.
X
Completely Fully
Unaware Informed
Behaviorally Anchored
Rating Scales (BARS) Passes next examination
and graduates on time.
Scales that combine major
elements from the critical Pays close attention and
incident and graphic rating regularly takes notes.
scale approaches:
Alert and takes
The appraiser rates the occasional notes.
employees based on items
along a continuum, but the Stays awake in class
points are examples of actual but is inattentive.
behavior on a given job rather
Get to class on time,
than general descriptions or
but nods off immediately.
traits.
Oversleeps for class.
Individual Ranking
An evaluation method that rank-orders employees
from best to worse.
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Methods of Performance Evaluation (cont’d)
Forced Comparisons (cont’d)
Paired Comparison
An evaluation method that compares each employee
with every other employee and assigns a summary
ranking based on the number of superior scores that
the employee achieves.