Good Morning, Today, most employers have been using personality and integrity tests in making promotion and recruitment decisions. Despite the fact that most employers are in full support of the act, I do not think it should be used. The integrity and personality tests lead to discrimination of the mentally challenged individuals. Additionally, the assessments never offer the true insight of a candidate’s work styles, values, motives and job skills (DeCenzo, Robbins, & Verhulst, 2013, p. 100). They sometimes can be too shallow to give the final verdict concerning the fitness of the candidate for the job, and, hence not fit to be used as prediction tools. Finally, employers can use the tests deliberately to discriminate against minorities. Integrity
The down side to the Federal Technician testing is that each employee was hired sight-unseen based on our test scores. While each and every one of us was excellent at the jobs we were hired for, there were some fairly serious personality and hygiene issues in the bunch. One of the hires weighed over 500 pounds and, though intelligent, required two plane tickets every time she traveled. Another had such repulsive personal hygiene issues that the entire office turned against her, customers wouldn’t work with her and she was ultimately asked to resign. An interview would have not only established the individual’s capabilities but would have identified those that would ultimately become a liability to the
This test is used eliminates candidates potential to use mental processes to solve work-related problems. Validity test is a general cognitive test that is good predictors if the candidate is able to perform the job; however, more complex jobs the better test results the tester will have. This test has demonstrated to produce many valid outcomes such as performance and successful training as well as predict job performance for complex jobs. One of the disadvantages to this type of test is that it is time consuming to develop if not purchased off of the
In place of a prospective employee's cognitive ability, the uniform guidelines insists on personality appraises, biographical information, and various consideration based on race and ethnicity as a base to "hire" the "right" number of appropriate racial and ethnic representations. The skills and technical expertise regarding a given job are regarded lowly especially in situations where a significant proportion of persons from the minority group lacks these skills.
Businesses have to be very careful with the tests that they administer. Pre-employment screenings have gained a lot of scrutiny in the public over whether the test is considered unfair and biased. Tests are subject to two distinct forms of bias. There is a measurement bias. This happens when individuals from different subpopulations receive lower scores then what was predicted. The second form is the relational bias. This occurs if there is a measure differs across groups. According to Drasgow (1987), there is little evidence found regarding relational bias. Administering tests that show high face validity can help a business during these situations. Also, the point of the assessment is to predict job performance after the applicant is hired.
Selecting tests can measure knowledge, skills and ability, as well as other characteristics, such as personality traits and they are useful to evaluate the right employee for a specific role, by identifying the candidate personality. For example, if a company or department needs to hire a new manager, a psychological/aptitude test may help to understand better if the candidate has the features required for that specific job position (strong leadership skills, such as high self-confidence, calmness, flexibility, etc).
The common theme throughout the ADA is the unsuccessful ability to close the gap in employment for people with disabilities. A change that could be recommended to increase hiring individuals is having companies be held accountable for diversity in the workplace. Under Affirmative Action, companies use internal audits and reporting systems as a means to measure an employer's diversity in the workplace (About Affirmative, 2015). However, workplaces are not required to track or report on people with disabilities who have applied and were not hired. By making it a law for companies to report on why they did not hire a person or who they did hire can help track if companies are favoring one person's ability over another.
7. Using employment tests that measure applicants' disabilities, instead of their ability to do the job.
Companies have started to use personality tests in the past five years so that they can find a potential employee’s strengths and weaknesses. If questions and answers are quite accurate and test is done properly it can help an employer to find more about person’s advantages and disadvantages. It is very important to know because one of the most important points is that most of personality tests help to recognize unqualified candidates. “Although experts warn that many personality assessments don't deliver what they promise, legitimate scientifically validated tests are helping employers evaluate job candidates to select those best suited for particular positions. Other tests are designed to measure intelligence, honesty, management aptitude and other qualities.”
In a study, when recruiters were asked to choose a suitability applicant for employment in a hypothetical administrative assistant position. They ended up giving less employability rating to applicants with a disability compared to the one without disability. This clearly shows stereotyping in few work places. (Bricout, John C., and Kia J. Bentley.).
Describe the layout and function of the various kinds of dwellings used by the Ancient Romans in the cities and countryside.
In conclusion, integrity is not an easy subject ignore. It’s really big issue that society should be aware of because most people think that is fine to sell information for any reason. People should understand that is not a game. It’s a privacy, it’s a responsibility to keep any data secret even it will save you from being in jail. People always looking for the easy way to successes even if they are going to hurt other people. Integrity became a big issue in many places depending on the culture and countries. Also, it has been in the big place which in jobs. People start thinking of the money rather than honesty and loyalty. Finally, when people recognize that even in religion the integrity is a big issue, they will start think of how important
Many organizations depend only on the result of the test without taking the reliability and validity into considerations, which that might lead to in hiring the wrong people. What is the difference between reliability and validity? “Reliability is the consistency and the stability of a selection measurement and validity is the degree to which a measure predicts on-the-job performance” (Green, 2003). For instance, the consistency of a test is made for to measure reliability and what kind of method to use to test the candidate is to measure validity. Since reliability and validity are both important aspects in the selection process, let’s look at several methods that are used in today’s industries.
What comes to mind when I think of binge watching? I guess, in a very technical sense, its watching more than a couple episodes of something. I see the term, less connected with watching movies. I suppose you could binge watch movies, but I think that the term has more connotations with television programs rather than movies. To me, I think binge watching implies that you are watching multiple episodes of some kind of series.
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Dalton, D. R. and M. B. Metzger: 1992, ‘Integrity Testing’ for Personnel Selection: An Unsparing Perspective’, Journal of Business Ethics