Personnel Selection - Statistics & numerical data
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Positive manifold limits the relevance of content-matching strategies for validating selection test batteries.

29 Jun 2009 Inferences about the relationships between scores on selection tests and measures of job performance are often made on the basis of an assessment of the match between the content of the test and the content of the job. However, there is little ... Read more...

Hierarchical rank and women's organizational mobility: glass ceilings in corporate law firms.

27 Feb 2009 This article revives the debate over whether women's upward mobility prospects decline as they climb organizational hierarchies. Although this proposition is a core element of the "glass ceiling" metaphor, it has failed to gain strong support in ... Read more...

Multistage selection strategies: simulating the effects on adverse impact and expected performance for various predictor combinations.

27 Feb 2009 Examination of the trade-off between mean performance and adverse impact has received empirical attention for single-stage selection strategies; however, research for multistage selection strategies is almost nonexistent. The authors used Monte ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Personnel Selection - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Positive manifold limits the relevance of content-matching strategies for validating selection test batteries. 29 Jun 2009
• Tips before you take that new job. 30 Mar 2009
• Biotech hirings and firings. 30 Mar 2009
• Personnel dilemma. 17 Mar 2009
• Hierarchical rank and women's organizational mobility: glass ceilings in corporate law firms. 27 Feb 2009
• Multistage selection strategies: simulating the effects on adverse impact and expected performance for various predictor combinations. 27 Feb 2009
• Recruitment efforts to reduce adverse impact: targeted recruiting for personality, cognitive ability, and diversity. 27 Feb 2009
• Recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority and low-income dental students: effects of the Pipeline program. 30 Jan 2009
• Recruiting medical students to rural practice: perspectives of medical students and rural recruiters. 30 Dec 2008
• An impending crisis in the provision of histopathology expertise for mouse functional genomics. 30 Dec 2008
• By the numbers. Executives/management. 20 Dec 2008
• Competition ratios for different specialties and the effect of gender and immigration status. 30 Oct 2008
• Consider seven trends and tips when recruiting a physician. 30 Oct 2008
• Increasing minority enrollment utilizing dental admissions workshop strategies. 30 Oct 2008
• Pediatric dermatology workforce shortage: perspectives from academia. 30 Sep 2008
• Competition ratios for different specialties and the effect of gender and immigration status. 29 Sep 2008
• Fighting the brain drain. 13 Sep 2008
• Does a predermatology fellowship increase the chance to match in dermatology? 30 Aug 2008
• Successful recruitment: what now? 29 Jun 2008
• Using overseas registered nurses to fill employment gaps in rural health services: quick fix or sustainable strategy? 30 May 2008

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Technical information about 'Personnel Selection'

Definition: The process of choosing employees for specific types of employment. The concept includes recruitment.

Descriptor UI: D010560

Alternative terms: Personnel Selection; Personnel Selections; Selection, Personnel; Selections, Personnel; Recruitment Activities; Activities, Recruitment; Activity, Recruitment; Recruitment Activity; Personnel Recruitment; Personnel Recruitments; Recruitment, Personnel; Recruitments, Personnel;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; methods;

Tree Number: N04.452.677.500;

History Note: 91(Aug 77); was see under PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT 1977-90