Staffing Organizations: Contemporary Practice and Theory, Third Edition (Applied Psychology) - Softcover

Ployhart, Robert E. E.; Schneider, Benjamin; Schmitt, Neal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805855807 ISBN 13: 9780805855807

Publisher: CRC Press, 2005

Synopsis

Staffing Organizations: Contemporary Practice and Theory, the new third edition of a classic in the field, shows how organizations of all sizes can use effective staffing procedures as a source of sustained competitive advantage. Practically, the book shows how to choose, develop, and administer effective staffing procedures, including conducting job analyses, defining and measuring job performance, identifying predictors of performance that are both valid and legally defensible, and using this information to make sound hiring decisions. All three authors are active practitioners and recommendations based on their experiences are interwoven throughout the chapters. The authors are also grounded in a scientific, conceptual perspective that informs what they say and do in the staffing area. They review cutting-edge theory and research in diverse areas of importance to the practice of staffing, and identify scientific advances as well as areas that should be informed by additional research.

Examples of such cutting-edge issues include:
*multilevel staffing models linking individual, group, and organizational levels;
*comprehensive consideration of diversity and cross-cultural challenges;
*the opportunities and challenges of the use of information technology in staffing;
*the legal, professional, and ethical challenges facing staffing practitioners;
*modern statistical approaches (e.g., structural equation modeling, item response theory, hierarchical linear modeling); and
*integrated models of staffing predictors and frameworks for understanding predictor and criterion spaces.

Each chapter contains real-world examples and illustrations, a discussion of best practices, practical recommendations, and directions for future research. In doing so, Staffing Organizations: Contemporary Practice and Theory is a modern version of a genuine classic.

About this title

About the Author

Benjamin Schneider is Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland and a consultant with Personnel Research Associates, Inc. For 20 years he was the head of the Industrial and Organizational Psychology (I/O) program at Maryland. In addition to Maryland, Ben has taught at Michigan State University and Yale University and for shorter periods of time at Dartmouth College s Tuck School of Business Administration, Bar-Ilan University (Israel, on a Fulbright), University of Aix-Marseilles (France), and Peking University (PRC). Ben holds the Ph.D. in Psychology (University of Maryland, 1967) and the M.B.A. (C.U.N.Y., 1964). His academic accomplishments include more than 90 professional journal articles and book chapters, as well as seven books. Ben s interests concern service quality, organizational climate and culture, staffing issues, and the role of personality in organizational life. Ben is listed in Who s Who in America and derivative volumes, and was awarded the Year 2000 Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. In addition to his academic work Ben over the years has consulted with numerous companies including Chase-Manhattan Bank, Citicorp, AT&T, Allstate, Sotheby s, the Metropolitan Opera, Prudential, the States of Alabama and Pennsylvania, GEICO, IBM, American Express, and Giant Eagle.

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Review

This third edition will maintain the book's status as a landmark text. The updated literature and latest statistical techniques provide a rich source of information that is valuable as a textbook and a reference. The book is useful for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, not to mention scholars and researchers.
—Manuel London
State University of New York at Stony Brook

This book is very thorough. It is very up-to-date on current research. I particularly liked the first chapter. It provided an historical overview of the importance of staffing that one is not likely to find elsewhere.

—Timothy Judge
University of Florida

I could easily see adopting this text for my graduate selection course. I like the newer data and analytic techniques such as SEM, IRT, and HLM...The overall organization of the book is a great feature. The chapters are logically organized and provide the reader with a clear sense of what the important topics are, why they are important, and where the field may head in the future.
—Ronald S. Landis
Tulane University

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0805855807
• ISBN 13: 9780805855807
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 686