Applicability of assessment center concepts and techniques for managerial selection and development in human service organizations.
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.
D000288:Administrative Personnel; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States