The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection

The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection provides a state-of-the-art review of theory, research, and professional practice in the field of selection and assessment. Reviews research and practical developments in all of the main selection methods, including interviews, psychometric tests, assessment centres, and work sample tests. Considers selection from the organization s and the applicant s perspective, and covers the use of new technology in selection and adverse impact issues. Each section includes contributions from internationally eminent authors based in North America and Europe.

The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection provides astate-of-the-art review of theory, research, and professionalpractice in the field of selection and assessment.* Reviews research and practical developments in all of the mainselection methods, including interviews, psychometric testsassessment centres, and work sample tests.* Considers selection from the organization's and theapplicant's perspective, and covers the use of new technologyin selection and adverse impact issues.* Each section includes contributions from internationallyeminent authors based in North America and Europe.

List of Contributors.Notes on the Editors.Notes on the Contributors.Preface.1. Relationships between Practice and Research in PersonnelSelection: Does the Left Hand Know What the Right Is Doing? (NeilAnderson).Part I: Preparing for Selection.2. Job Analysis: Current and Future Perspectives (Olga F.Smit-Voskuijl).3. The Impracticality of Recruitment Research (Alan M.Saks).4. The Design of Selection Systems: Context, Principles, Issues(Robert A. Roe).5. Is the Obvious Obvious? Considerations About Ethical Issuesin Personnel Selection (Olga F. Voskuijl, Arne Evers and SachaGeerlings.Part II: Developments in the Use of Different Kinds ofPredictors.6. The Selection/Recruitment Interview: Core Processes andContexts (Robert L. Dipboye).7. Cognitive Ability in Personnel Selection Decisions (Deniz S.Ones and Stephan Dilchert.8. Personality in Personnel Selection (Jesús F. Salgado andFilip de Fruyt).9. Emotional Factors as Selection Criteria (CharlesWoodruffe).10. Situational Judgment Tests (David Chan, and NealSchmitt).11. Assessment Centers: Recent Developments in Practice andResearch (Filip Lievens and George C. Thornton).Part III: Decisions and their Context.12. Decision Making in Selection (Marise Ph. Born and DoraScholarios).13. Relevance and Rigor in Research on the Applicant'sPerspective: In Pursuit of Pragmatic Science (Anna L. Imus and AnnMarie Ryan).14. Ethnic Bias and Fairness in Personnel Selection: Evidenceand Consequences (Arne Evers, Jan Te Nijenhuis and Henk van derFlier).Part IV: Criterion Measures.15. The Prediction of Typical and Maximum Performance inEmployee Selection (Ute-Christine Klehe and Neil Anderson).16. Job Performance: Assessment Issues in Personnel Selection(Chockalingam Viswesvaran and Deniz S. Ones).17. The Prediction of Contextual Performance (Lisa M. Penney andWalter C. Borman).Part V: Emerging Trends and Assessment for Change.18. Computer-Based Testing and the Internet (Dave Bartram).19. A Review of Person--Environment Fit Research: Prospects forPersonnel Selection (Annelies E. M. Van Vianen).20. Selection of Leaders in Global Organizations (NicoleCunningham-Snell and David Wigfield, Shell).21. Expatriate Selection: A Process Approach (Annelies E. M. VanVianen, Irene E. De Pater and Paula M. Caligiuri).22. Selection for Teams (Natalie J. Allen and Michael M.West).23. Multilevel Selection and Prediction: Theories, Methods, andModels (Robert E. Ployhart and Benjamin Schneider).Author Index.Subject Index.