NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

HRM 303 Human Resource Management
Dr. Naomi Rotter
Session 10: Staffing and Selection, Part II

Objectives:

1. To become familiar with methods of employee selection and their advantages and disadvantages
2. To become familiar with the problems relating to interviewing and ways to minimize them
3. To discuss ways to evaluate selection techniques and to calculate their potential economic benefits

I. Selection techniques, continued

    A. Tests and simulations

1. Physical ability tests

2. Personality tests (objective and projective)

3. Interest and preference inventories

4. Work simulations

5. Controversial tests: graphology, integrity, and propensity for violence

6. Drug screening and fitness to work

    B. Interviews.

1. Reliability and validity

2 Problems.

3. Techniques for improvement

II. Managerial selection & assessment centers

III. Issues in selection

    A. Evaluating the techniques

    B. Selection decisions

    C. Selection and the bottom line