PSYC732

Selection and Classification Issues in Organizations

Prerequisite: PSYC603; and (PSYC602; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department). Or permission of instructor. Consideration of societal, organizational and individual demands for appropriate use of individual differences in (primarily) initial placement of employees. Recruitment, and selection issues, the role of governmental regulations, and the role of individual factors in individual behavior are considered. Extensive coverage given to fundamental psycho-metric problems and the development of individual and organizational criteria of effectiveness.