Handbook of Employee Selection

This second edition of the Handbook of Employee Selection has been revised and updated throughout to reflect current thinking on the state of science and practice in employee selection. In this volume, a diverse group of recognized scholars inside and outside the United States balance theory, research, and practice, often taking a global perspective.

Divided into eight parts, chapters cover issues associated with measurement, such as validity and reliability, as well as practical concerns around the development of appropriate selection procedures and implementation of selection programs. Several chapters discuss the measurement of various constructs commonly used as predictors, and other chapters confront criterion measures that are used in test validation. Additional sections include chapters that focus on ethical and legal concerns and testing for certain types of jobs (e.g., blue collar jobs). The second edition features a new section on technology and employee selection.

The Handbook of Employee Selection, Second Edition provides an indispensable reference for scholars, researchers, graduate students, and professionals in industrial and organizational psychology, human resource management, and related fields.

James L. Farr is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is the author or editor of over 85 publications in professional journals and books. He is an elected fellow of SIOP and APA and Past President of SIOP (1996-1997). He was a winner of SIOP’s James McKeen Cattell Award for Research Design (1980) and M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace (1998). In 2001, he was awarded SIOP’s Distinguished Service Award.

Nancy T. Tippins is a Principal Consultant at CEB. She is a Fellow of SIOP, Division 5 of APA, APA, and APS and Past President of SIOP (2000-2001). She is currently Secretary of the SIOP Foundation. In 2004, she was the winner of SIOP’s Distinguished Service Award, and, in 2013, she won SIOP’s Distinguished Professional Contributions Award.