title: Personnel selection: looking toward the future--remembering the past.
abstract: This chapter reviews personnel selection research from 1995 through 1999. Areas covered are job analysis; performance criteria; cognitive ability and personality predictors; interview, assessment center, and biodata assessment methods; measurement issues; meta-analysis and validity generalization; evaluation of selection systems in terms of differential prediction, adverse impact, utility, and applicant reactions; emerging topics on team selection and cross-cultural issues; and finally professional, legal, and ethical standards. Three major themes are revealed: (a) Better taxonomies produce better selection decisions; (b) The nature and analyses of work behavior are changing, influencing personnel selection practices; (c) The field of personality research is healthy, as new measurement methods, personality constructs, and compound constructs of well-known traits are being researched and applied to personnel selection.
authors.affiliation: Dunnette Group, St. Paul, Minnesota 55102, USA. Leaetta@msn.com
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Hough
authors.forename: F L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Oswald
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011590:Psychology, Industrial / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*