Personnel selection : adding value through people

Cook, Mark 1942- (Author). Cook, Mark 1942- Personnel selection and productivity. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0471981583
ISBN: 0471981567
ISBN: 9780585358673
ISBN: 0585358672
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 349 pages) : illustrations
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Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Chichester ; New York : Wiley, ©1998.

General Note:	Revised edition of: Personnel selection and productivity. 2nd ed. c1993.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Machine generated contents note: 1.Old and New Selection Methods: "We've always done it this way" -- 2.Job Description and Job Analysis: "If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else" -- 3.The Interview: "I know one when I see one" -- 4.References and Ratings: "The eye of the beholder" -- 5.Weighted Application Blanks and Biodata: "How old were you when you learned to swim?" -- 6.Tests of Mental Ability: "Information from behind the wall of ignorance and censorship?" -- 7.Personality Tests: "Total awareness of bottom line vitality" -- 8.Assessment Centres: "Does your face fit?" -- 9.Work Samples and Other Methods -- 10.Validity: "How do you know it works?" -- 11.Criteria of Productivity: "We don't know what we're doing, but we are doing it very carefully and hope you are pleased with our unintelligent diligence" -- 12.Minorities, "Fairness" and the Law: "Getting the numbers right" -- 13.The Value of Good Employees: "The best is twice as good as the worst"
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.