More than <i>g</i>: Selection Quality and Adverse Impact Implications of considering Second-stratum Cognitive Abilities

• Main Authors: WEE, Serena Ghin Hee, NEWMAN, Daniel A., JOSEPH, Dana L.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Cattell-Horn-Carroll model; Pareto-optimal weighting; adverse impact; cognitive ability or intelligence; specific abilities; personnel selection; cognitive tests; job performance; diversity hiring; Cognitive Psychology; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1454
• Institution: Singapore Management University

When using cognitive tests, personnel selection practitioners typically face a trade-off between the expected job performance and diversity of new hires. We review the increasingly mainstream evidence that cognitive ability is a multidimensional and hierarchically ordered set of concepts, and examin...