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

Socpus ID

0000259519 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0000259519

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