Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection

This second edition continues in the tradition of the first edition by giving managers and students the nuts and bolts of assessment processes and selection techniques. The book provides current and future managers with the knowledge and tools required to make informed personnel decisions based upon the results of tests and assessments. It emphasizes that good prediction requires well-formed hypotheses about personal characteristics that may be related to valued behavior at work and the need for developing a theory of the attribute one hypothesizes as a predictor--a thought process too often missing from work on selection procedures. In addition, it explores such topics as team-member selection, situational judgment tests, non-traditional tests, individual assessment, and testing for diversity. The books covers both basic and advanced concepts in personnel selection in a straight-forward readable style intended to be used in both undergraduate and graduate courses in Personnel Selection and Assessment.

Scott Highhouse is a Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar in the Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, USA. Scott is Founding Editor of the journalPersonnel Assessment and Decisions, serves of the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology andJournal of Behavioral Decision Making.

Dennis Doverspike is a Full Professor of Psychology at The University of Akron, USA, Senior Fellow of the Institute for Life-Span Development and Gerontology, and Director of the Center for Organizational Research. He is certified as a Specialist in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and in Organizational and Business Consulting Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and is a licensed psychologist in the State of Ohio.

Robert M. Guion (deceased) is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University, where he was on the faculty from 1952 until his death in 2012. Honors include the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Award for Lifetime Contributions to Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics, American Psychological Association (Div. 5); Stephen E. Bemis Memorial Award, International Personnel Management Association Assessment Council.