Applicant Screening and Performance-Related Outcomes

• Main Authors: HUANG, Fali, Cappelli, Peter
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Employee Screening; Monitoring; Work Ethic; High Performance Work Practices; Principal-Agent Model.; Asian Studies; Behavioral Economics; Labor Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/5; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1004/viewcontent/EmployeeScreening2009_12.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A fundamental problem faced by employers is how to elicit effort from employees. Most economic models suggest that employers meet this challenge by monitoring employees carefully to prevent shirking. But there is another option that relies on heterogeneity across employees, and that is to screen job...