Staffing has 2 main purposes "Get the best talent" for the firm at the price we can offer. A "valid test" is a hurdle that allows better talent to get over, while lesser talent is screened out. Good decisions result when applicants who will succeed are hired ("true positive") Bad decisions involve rejecting people who don't work out ("false positive")
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Mgmt 441 Fall 2010 Staffing Intro Staffing Slides (1)
Staffing has 2 main purposes "Get the best talent" for the firm at the price we can offer. A "valid test" is a hurdle that allows better talent to get over, while lesser talent is screened out. Good decisions result when applicants who will succeed are hired ("true positive") Bad decisions involve rejecting people who don't work out ("false positive")
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Staffing has 2 main purposes "Get the best talent" for the firm at the price we can offer. A "valid test" is a hurdle that allows better talent to get over, while lesser talent is screened out. Good decisions result when applicants who will succeed are hired ("true positive") Bad decisions involve rejecting people who don't work out ("false positive")
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regulations concerning staffing practice, or in short “keep it legal” How to Staff?
Derive “demand for labor”
Update job requirement information Identify knowledge, skills and abilities required for success on job Develop measures of job-related KSA’s Recruit from relevant labor markets Screen using “valid” tests Make offer, provide orientation to accepts Staffing Project Steps
Choose job to study
Find real setting to perform job analysis Perform job analysis Develop job description, job specification Find/develop tests to measure job specifications Identify “Relevant” labor markets Define recruiting methods Spell out hiring process to client in full detail What do you mean “valid test”? * Note importance of Supreme Court case Watson v. Ft Worth Bank and Trust (1988) Supreme court states (paraphrasing): “A test is any hurdle you have to clear to get a job” - especially important for interviewing, which was at core of case * A “valid test” is a hurdle that allows better talent to get over, while lesser talent is screened out How do we establish if a test is “valid” Note importance of “The Uniform Guidelines for Employee Selection Procedures” (1978) Uniform Guidelines link
Three methods recognized by courts –
“Content validation” “Criterion-related validation” “Construct validation” The logic of hiring validity illustrated Consider classic payoff matrix, which we’ll label “selection decision matrix” in our setting. Good decisions result when applicants who will succeed are hired (“true positive”), and applicants who will not succeed are rejected (“true negative”) Bad decisions involve rejecting people who will work out (“false negative), and accepting those who don’t work out (“false positive”) Selection Decision Matrix Content validation …
A logical analysis by subject matter
experts (SME’s) of the overlap between the content of screening tests and the content of job requirements
Note the deceptive simplicity of the
requirements for a typist at the university Criterion-related validation The main way it’s done 2 types: Predictive Validation and Concurrent Validation
Predictive uses test data from applicants,
and job performance data from those hired Concurrent uses both test and performance data from current employees Construct Validation . . . More complex than the other two
One has to show that measures of
applicant traits and job performance really measure those things (Classic construct validation) AND then show trait measures correlate with job performance measures the vast majority of the time
we’ll be referring to “concurrent,
criterion-related validity evidence” because of it’s overwhelming use Valid tests mean lower error rates in hiring decisions More true positives and negatives Fewer false positives and negatives Lower exposure to successful litigation Higher “utility” of the staffing function Research on validity tells us what works!
Find tests that are shown to be valid
How is this done?
Within the “concurrent, criterion-related
validation” approach, it means showing a significant correlation between test scores and job performance scores – the essence of a concurrent validity study. What would such validation data look like?
See “Ma and Pa Consumer
Electronics Store” data set illustration
Ma and Pa Consumer Electronics Data Set 1
Valid Hiring Tests
A hiring test – anything you must get
through to get the job
A “Valid” hiring test – one where
applicants who score better on the test do a better job if hired
In criterion-related empirical test
validation, it is one where there is a “significant correlation between hiring test scores and job performance scores” Empirical validation
Obtain a representative sample of people
Have them take the hiring test(s), and measure their job performance Compute the statistical correlation of hiring test scores and job performance scores Compute the “statistical significance” of the sample correlation If “significant”, cross-validate in new sample If correlation remains significant, put test(s) into use Some key statistical concepts “Mean” the average score for a group of people “Standard Deviation” the average variability around the average score for a group of people “Correlation” a number that reveals the degree of linear association between hiring test scores and job performance scores Correlation properties Correlation is notated with lower case “r” It can range in value from -1.00 to +1.00 r=0 means “zero” correlation, no linear association between the test (x) and job performance (y) – that’s not happy r=+1.00 (or r= -1.00) means there is a perfect association of hiring test and job performance - doesn’t happen in reality, tho’ we’d love it if it did! Correlations from real samples RARELY exceed values of r=.50 More on correlation Correlation can be used to “summarize” the pattern in a 2-variable scatterplot, like the hiring test (x axis) versus job performance (y axis) scatterplot
In this application, correlation is a
special case of linear regression – using a straight line to summarize what’s happening in a data set
Plot interview score against job
performance in the Ma and Pa data set Statistical analysis of interviews in relation to monthly sales
Compute the correlation of hiring test
scores with job performance scores
Compute the regression of job performance
scores (Y) on hiring test scores (X) Things to do Review material covered, so you ace the quiz next week