Title
A Comparison Of The Predictive Validity Of Assessment Center Evaluations Versus Traditional Measures In Forecasting Supervisory Job Performance: Interpretive Implications Of Criterion Distortion For The Assessment Paradigm
Keywords
validity of assessment center evaluations vs traditional measures, prediction of job performance, supervisors
Abstract
Collected data on 799 employees at a large manufacturing firm who were promoted to supervisory positions during a 4-yr period, including criterion data gathered from supervisors from 1-mo to several years after the assessment. 71 predictor variables, 29 assessment evaluations, and 21 criterion variables were aggregated for ease of interpretation. Results show that (1) both assessment-center evaluations (personal history survey, short arithmetic test, measure of general ability, interview, and work exercises) and traditional predictors (supervisor's ratings) were unrelated to job performance, but (2) assessment-center evaluations were predictive of promotability. It is suggested that by the nature of the complex issues that assessment centers were designed to address, a psychometrically clean evaluation of them may be precluded. (13 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
Publication Date
11-1-1984
Publication Title
Journal of Applied Psychology
Volume
69
Issue
4
Number of Pages
595-602
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.69.4.595
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
0000259519 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0000259519
STARS Citation
Turnage, Janet J. and Cornell, Richard A., "A Comparison Of The Predictive Validity Of Assessment Center Evaluations Versus Traditional Measures In Forecasting Supervisory Job Performance: Interpretive Implications Of Criterion Distortion For The Assessment Paradigm" (1984). Scopus Export 1980s. 89.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus1980/89