Handbook of Employee Selection

The Handbook of Employee Selection summarizes the state of science and practice in the field of employee selection. Chapters in this book 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. Ethical and legal concerns are dealt with in another set of chapters and highlight the concerns of the employer as well as the test taker and the psychologist responsible for the testing program. Final sections of the book include chapters that focus on testing for certain types of jobs (e.g., blue collar jobs, supervisory jobs) and describe important milestones in the development of selection programs.

James L. Farr is Professor, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University. His PhD is from the University of Maryland in Industrial Psychology and Psychological Statistics and Measurement. He has been our journal editor of Human Performance (2000-2006) and Editor of TIP from 1986-1989. He has written Landy /Farr The Measurement of Work Performance, Academic Press, 1983, West and Farr: Innovation and Creativity at Work, Wiley, 1990, and Schuler, Farr and Smith: Personnel Selection and Assessment, LEA, 1993.

Nancy T. Tippins received her PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Georgia Institute of Technology. She currently works at Valtera Corporation as Senior Vice President-Selection Practice Group. She is a Fellow of SIOP and APA and Past President of SIOP (2001-2002). She has served on the editorial boards of the following journals: Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, and The Psychologist Manager Journal.