Three Decades of Personnel Selection Research: A State-of-the-Art Analysis and Evaluation
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Thirty years of personnel selection studies, which were printed in Personnel Psychology, are assessed as to their elements of research design. This historiographic analysis of nearly four hundred research projects features evaluative and descriptive judgement. Parameters of interest are the job performance criteria, predictor number and types, sample size, and jobs investigated. Research parameters in personnel selection have altered substantially over three decades. Job proficiency criteria are differentiated as to subjective and objective measurements. Predictors were classed as intelligence, vocational, interest, personality, biographical data, and other. Instruments do not equal predictors. Sample size had five levels between twenty and one hundred fifty or over, which caused fairly normal distribution. Jobs were classed as industrial, semi-skilled, vehicle operators, trades, service, sales, professional, and managerial. Tables and graphs of statistical data are included. Evaluatively, personnel selection studies have had too much reliance on subjective criterion and small sample sizes. Large sample sizes are expected to be more widely used in future research.
Publication Name: Journal of Occupational Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0305-8107
Year: 1983
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The vernacular term interview: eliciting social knowledge related to sex among adolescents
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The vernacular term interview method uses vernacular language as a tool for eliciting adolescents' social knowledge related to sexual behavior. Short answer questions are used to generate vernacular terms. The interviewer identifies a vernacular term, and determines its meaning, form of usage in colloquial speech and the behavioral characteristics associated with the term. The interviewer then develops a provisional model of persons, behaviors, assumptions and concepts that underly the term. Two interviews investigating a vernacular term are presented to illustrate the method.
Publication Name: Journal of Adolescence
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0140-1971
Year: 1997
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Expectations and Impressions in the Graduate Selection Interview
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Impressions formed at a job interview are important to the interviewer's hiring decision. What is said is the most important factor. Other factors include dress and manner. Indications suggest that the interview is a dynamic social exchange, not an independent judgement of one party to another.
Publication Name: Journal of Occupational Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0305-8107
Year: 1983
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