title: Applicability of assessment center concepts and techniques for managerial selection and development in human service organizations.
abstract: The Assessment Center technique has been used widely throughout private industry over the past twenty-five years for selection and promotion of supervisory and managerial personnel. It has been acclaimed as a fair and valid method and has been successful in identifying individuals who possess the greatest potential to achieve in a particular position. A growing interest in the field of human services administration is the need to find the best person to select or promote into a supervisory or administrative position. The Assessment Center can be used to address this need, and the authors discuss the applicability of the technique to the human service organization.
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States