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CH 6 Employee Testing and Selection

Employee selection is important to ensure organizational performance and avoid legal issues. Proper testing and validation helps select the right candidates. There are several key concepts for effective testing including reliability, validity, test security, and legal privacy issues. Reliability ensures tests are consistent, while validity confirms a test measures what it intends to. Organizations must also respect test takers' rights and keep information confidential to avoid defamation suits.

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CH 6 Employee Testing and Selection

Employee selection is important to ensure organizational performance and avoid legal issues. Proper testing and validation helps select the right candidates. There are several key concepts for effective testing including reliability, validity, test security, and legal privacy issues. Reliability ensures tests are consistent, while validity confirms a test measures what it intends to. Organizations must also respect test takers' rights and keep information confidential to avoid defamation suits.

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CH: 6

Employee Testing and selection


Why Careful Selection is Important

The Importance of
Selecting the Right
Employees

Costs of Legal
Organizationa
Recruiting Obligations
l Performance
and Hiring and Liability
Avoiding Negligent Hiring Claims
• Carefully scrutinize information on employment
applications.
• Get written authorization for reference checks, and check
references.
• Save all records and information about the applicant.
• Reject applicants for false statements or conviction
records for offenses related to the job.
• Balance the applicant’s privacy rights with others’ “need
to know.”
• Take immediate disciplinary action if problems arise.
Basic Testing Concepts
1. Reliability
Consistency of scores obtained by the same person
when retested with identical or equivalent tests.
 How you can measure reliability?
 What are the things that can cause a test to be
more unreliable?
2. Validity
Indicates whether a test is measuring what it is
supposed to be measuring.
Ways to demonstrate test validity

Test
Validity

Criterion
Face
Validity Validity
Content
Validity
How to Validate a Test
 Steps in Test validation:
1. Analyze the Job: predictors and criteria
2. Choose the Tests: test battery or single test
3. Administer the Tests: concurrent or predictive
validation
4. Relate your test scores and criteria: Scores versus
actual performance
5. Cross-Validate and Revalidate: repeat Steps 3
and 4 with a different sample
Test Takers’ Individual Rights and Test
Security
• Under the APA’s standard for educational and
psychological tests, test takers have the right:
 To privacy and information.
 To the confidentiality of test results.
 To informed consent regarding use of these
results.
 To expect the test is fair to all.
Legal Privacy Issues
• Defamation
 Libeling or slandering of employees or former
employees by an employer.
• Avoiding Employee Defamation Suits
1. Train supervisors regarding the importance of
employee confidentiality.
2. Adopt a “need to know” policy.
3. Disclose procedures impacting confidentially of
information to employees.
Types of Tests

What Tests
Measure

Cognitive Motor and Personality Achievement


(Mental) Physical and Interests
Abilities Abilities

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