Abstract
An exploratory approach was taken to examine personnel psychologists' use of sources of information when making a decision regarding candidates' fit to managerial positions. The main focus was on the process, based on actual information used to make real-life decisions about real-life candidates. Different types of information, available to the psychologists were used to predict their actual final decision regarding a sample of 434 managerial candidates. Results suggest a preference to indices of cognitive skills in making decisions about candidates. It seems that even when other non-cognitive indices were used, they were "tainted" by the cognitive indices, suggesting a halo effect. Implications for practice and further research are discussed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 117-124 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Business and Psychology |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2004 |
Keywords
- I/O psychology
- decision-making
- management
- personnel selection
- regression-models
- skills
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business and International Management
- General Business, Management and Accounting
- Applied Psychology
- General Psychology