1st Edition

Employee Recruitment, Selection, and Assessment Contemporary Issues for Theory and Practice

Edited By Ioannis Nikolaou, Janneke K. Oostrom Copyright 2015
264 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

264 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

264 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Psychology Press

Personnel selection is changing. Whilst traditional face-to-face interviews are still common, the range of assessment processes that inform the selection of candidates is increasingly diverse, taking advantage not only of new technologies, but also using new methods and strategies, such as assessment centres and personality testing. This new collection looks at the most important contemporary... Read more

Introduction Ioannis Nikolaou and Janneke K. Oostrom  Part A: Job Analysis and Recruitment  1. Work Analysis for Personnel Selection, Antonio León García-Izquierdo, Luis Díaz Vilela, and Silvia Moscoso  2. Recruitment Processes and Organizational Attraction, Derek S. Chapman and David Mayers  Part B: The Applicants’ Perspective  3. Video Résumés Portrayed: Findings and Challenges, Annemarie M. F. Hiemstra and Eva Derous  4. Social networking websites and personnel selection: A call for academic research, Donald H. Kluemper, H. Kristl Davison, Xiaoyun Cao and Bingqing Wu  5. Applicant Reactions to Selection Methods: An Overview of Recent Research and Suggestions for the Future, Ioannis Nikolaou Talya N. Bauer & Donald M. Truxillo  Part C: Advances in Predictors’ Research  6: New Developments in Intelligence Theory and Assessment: Implications for Personnel Selection, Charles Scherbaum, Harold Goldstein, Rachel Ryan, Paul Agnello, Ken Yusko, and Paul Hanges  7: Personality testing in personnel selection: Love it? Leave it? Understand it! Janina Diekmann, and Cornelius J. König  8: Trends in Testing: Highlights of a Global Survey, Ann Marie Ryan, Ilke Inceoglu, Dave Bartram, Juliya Golubovich, James Grand, Matthew Reeder, Eva Derous, Ioannis Nikolaou, and Xiang Yao  9. Beyond validity: Shedding light on the social situation in employment interviews, Klaus G. Melchers Pia V. Ingold, Annika Wilhelmy, and Martin Kleinmann  10. Situational Judgment Testing: A Review and Some New Developments, Janneke K. Oostrom Britt De Soete, and Filip Lievens  11. Assessment Centres: The Latest Developments on Construct Validity, Deon Meiring, Jurgen Becker, Suzanne Gericke and Nadia Louw  Part D: The Criterion Domain  12. Selecting for Innovation: Methods of Assessment and the Criterion Problem, Kristina Potočnik, Neil Anderson, Felisa Latorre  13. Typical and maximum performance, Ute-Christine Klehe, Jessica Grazi, Tusharika Mukherjee, and Justus Liebig

Biography

Ioannis Nikolaou is an Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour at Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

Janneke K. Oostrom is a Full Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology and Head of the Social Psychology Department at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

'This groundbreaking book brings together a team of international experts to provide cutting-edge knowledge on recruitment, selection and assessment. Its focus on dynamic topics, new innovations, and current research developments provides an energizing and thought-provoking perspective on the field. An invaluable resource for academics, practitioners and students alike'. - Julie M. McCarthy, Department of Management, University of Toronto, Canada