Human Resource Management
Essay Question: The use of psychometric testing in selection has attracted numerous criticisms.
Critically discuss them and identify what HR managers could do to address and mitigate the limitations of psychometric testing.
Use at least one reference from each piece of writing:
Redman, T and Wilkinson, A. (2013) Contemporary Human Resources Management. Text and cases. Harlow: Pearson. Chapters 3 and 4
Bratton, G. and Gold, G. (2012) ‘Recruiting and selecting employees’, in Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice (Fifth Edition), Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, Chapter 7, pp. 211-243.
Bozionelos, N. (2005) When the inferior candidate is offered the job: The selection interview as a political and power game. Human Relations, 58(12),1605-1631.
Moy, J.W. (2004) Selection criteria and the impact of personality on getting hired. Personnel Review, 33(5), pp. 521-535.
Callaghan, G. and Thompson, P. (2002) We Recruit Attitude’: The Selection and Shaping of Routine Call Centre Labour. Journal of Management Studies, 39(2), pp. 233-254.
Use critical analysis to answer the question.
Make sure to critically discuss and outline what HR mangers can do to reduce, or eliminate the limitations of psychometric testing.
