Personnel Selection

Name: Personnel Selection
Brand: Unknown
SKU: 9781118973585
Price: 85.99 NZD
Availability: InStock

Adding Value Through People - A Changing Picture

By Mark Cook

Summary

Personnel Selection by Mark Cook delves into the complexities of choosing the right individuals for job roles within an organisation. It explores various assessment methods, including interviews and psychometric testing, providing insights and guidelines for effective recruitment strategies. This book serves as a practical guide for enhancing selection processes, benefitting both employers and HR professionals.
Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

$85⁹⁹

AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 3-4 weeks

Found a better price? Request a price match

Personnel Selection

$85⁹⁹

Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

You might enjoy this book if you're interested in the critical processes involved in hiring and selecting the right individuals for your organisation. It's ideal for professionals in human resources or business leaders who wish to apply well-researched methods to improve their recruitment strategies.

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.

Description

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 characterised 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, such as technical and statistical boxes, simplified figures and tables, research agenda boxes, key point summaries, and key references.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118973585

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 6th edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 558g

Pages: 367

Collections

Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Company Culture & Human Resources Education & Reference Mark Cook Non-Fiction

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).