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Adverse Impact : Implications for Organizational Staffing and High Stakes Selection.

This text is the best single repository for a comprehensive examination of the scientific research and practical issues associated with adverse impact. Adverse impact occurs when there is a significant difference in organizational outcomes to the disadvantage of one or more groups defined on the bas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Outtz, James L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2009.
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  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Contributors; Section I: Background; 1 Adverse Impact: History and Evolution; 2 An Analysis of Two Methods for Assessing and Indexing Adverse Impact: A Disconnect Between the Academic Literature and Some Practice; Section II: Theoretical Perspectives; 3 A Theory of Adverse Impact; 4 Revisiting g: Intelligence, Adverse Impact, and Personnel Selection; Section III: Adverse Impact and Traditional Selection Theory; 5 How a Broader Definition of the Criterion Domain Changes Our Thinking About Adverse Impact.
  • 6 What Are the Criteria for Adverse Impact?Section IV: Facets of the Adverse Impact Problem; 7 Adverse Impact in Employee Selection Procedures From the Perspective of an Organizational Consultant; 8 Performance Ratings: Then and Now; 9 Perspectives on Adverse Impact in Work Performance: What We Know and What We Could Learn More About; 10 Validity, Utility, and Adverse Impact: Practical Implications From 30 Years of Data; 11 Cut Scores and Adverse Impact; 12 Subgroup Differences on Cognitive Tests in Contexts Other Than Personnel Selection.
  • Section V: Adverse Impact From an International Perspective13 International Perspectives on Adverse Impact: Europe and Beyond; 14 Adverse Impact in South Africa; Section VI: Methods of Reducing Adverse Impact; 15 Balancing Adverse Impact, Selection Errors, and Employee Performance in the Presence of Test Bias; 16 Reductions in Measured Subgroup Mean Differences: What Is Possible?; 17 Decision Aids for Addressing the Validity-Adverse Impact Trade-Off; 18 A Five-Year Journey With Coca-Cola; 19 Conclusions; Author Index; Subject Index.