This is a fully updated edition of Personnel Selection, a seminal text
on the psychometric approach to personnel selection by a noted expert in
the field.
- Focuses on cutting-edge topics including the influence of social
networking sites, adverse impact, age differences and stereotypes,
distribution of work performance, and the problems of selecting new
employees using research based on incumbent employees
- Questions established beliefs in the field, especially issues that
have been characterized as "not a problem," such as differential
validity, over-reliance on self-report, and "faking good"
- Contains expanded discussion of research and practice in the US and
internationally, while maintaining the definitive coverage of UK and
European selection approaches
- Provides comprehensive yet accessible information for professionals
and students, as well as helpful pedagogical tools (technical and
statistical boxes, simplified figures and tables, research agenda
boxes, key point summaries, and key references)