Developing Measures of Basic Job-Relevant English Proficiency for Predicting Job Performance and Promotability

• Main Authors: CHAN, David, SCHMITT, Neal, JENNINGS, Danielle, SHEPPARD, Lori
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1999
• Subjects: job performance; job promotion; audio and reading test; English proficiency; Cognitive Psychology; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/217
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The present study is an attempt to devise reliable and valid measures of job-relevant basic English proficiency to be applied in the prediction of job performance and promotability in an entry-level manual labor job dominated by workers whose native language is not English. An audio test and a readi...