Personnel selection: adding value through people--a changing picture

by Cook, Mark

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Title Statements

Full title :Personnel selection : adding value through people--a changing picture / Mark Cook.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.
Edition:Sixth edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
Place of Publication:Chichester, West Sussex, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 357 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781118973592, 1118973593, 9781118973585, 1118973585
oclc:ocn947285644
LC Classification:HF5549.5.S38
Dewey Decimal:658.3/112

Old and new selection methods: We've always done it this way -- Validity of selection methods: How do you know it works? -- Job description, work analysis and competences: If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else -- The interview: "I know one when I see one" -- References and ratings: The eye of the beholder -- Tests of mental ability: "a... man of paralysing stupidity" -- Assessing personality by questionnaire: Do you worry about awful things that might happen? -- Alternative ways of assessing personality: What year was the Bataan death march? -- Biodata and weighted application blanks: How old were you when you learned to swim? -- Assessment centres: Does your face fit? -- Emotional intelligence and other methods: "Success in work is 80% dependent on emotional intelligence" -- Criteria of work performance: "the successful employee...does more work, does it better, with less supervision" -- Minorities, fairness and the law: Getting the numbers right -- The value of good employees: The best is twice as good as the worst -- Conclusions: Calculating the cost of smugness.