Personnel Selection : Adding Value Through People - A Changing Picture

Cook, Mark

ISBN 10: 1118973585 / ISBN 13: 9781118973585

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Personnel Selection : Adding Value Through People - A Changing Picture
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118973585
• ISBN 13: 9781118973585
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This is a fully updated edition of Personnel Selection, a seminal text on the psychometric approach to personnel selection by a noted expert in the field.

• Focuses on cutting-edge topics including the influence of social networking sites, adverse impact, age differences and stereotypes, distribution of work performance, and the problems of selecting new employees using research based on incumbent employees
• Questions established beliefs in the field, especially issues that have been characterized as "not a problem," such as differential validity, over-reliance on self-report, and "faking good"
• Contains expanded discussion of research and practice in the US and internationally, while maintaining the definitive coverage of UK and European selection approaches
• Provides comprehensive yet accessible information for professionals and students, as well as helpful pedagogical tools (technical and statistical boxes, simplified figures and tables, research agenda boxes, key point summaries, and key references)

About the Author

MARK COOK is Honorary Lecturer in Psychology at Swansea University, UK, and founder of the Centre for Occupational Research, an occupational psychology consultancy based in Swansea and London, UK. He has more than 30 years' experience as an occupational psychologist and is widely recognized as an expert in selection. He teaches courses in occupational psychology and personnel selection; his other research interests include personality and personality assessment. He has published widely in the field and is the author of many books, including Levels of Personality (3rd edition, 2013) and Psychological Assessment in the Workplace: A Manager's Guide (Wiley, 2005).