Personnel selection: a longstanding story of impact at the individual, firm, and societal level

• Main Authors: LIEVENS, Filip, SACKETT, Paul R., ZHANG, Charlene
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Personnel Selection; validity; job Performance; firm Performance; situational Judgement Tests; impact;human Capital; utility; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6629; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7628/viewcontent/Personnel_selection_a_longstanding_story_of_impact_at_the_individual_firm_and_societal_level.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper discusses how and why the field of personnel selection has made a long-lasting mark in work and organizational psychology. We start by outlining the importance and relevance of the well-established analytical framework (criterion-related validity, incremental validity, utility) for examin...