Structured or unstructured personnel interviews?
The challenge for health care managers is finding, hiring and retaining appropriately qualified and motivated employees. One useful method of gaining information about and insight into a candidate is interviewing, which can be classified as structured, unstructured or semi-structured. The disadvantages of unstructured interviews are reviewed; ways to enhance the psychometric properties of interviews by adding structure are reviewed and summarized; and the possible reasons for underutilization of structured interviews are explored.
Azarpazhooh
Amir
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Department of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto.
Ryding
William H
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Leake
James L
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D002170:Canada; D006282:Health Personnel; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D007586:Job Application; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence