Abstract
Inclusive and discrimination-free personnel selection (IPS) is one of the most critical processes in the Human Resource Management system in inclusive organizations because it determines the efficiency of many other subsequent HRM practices (e.g., training, promotion, and turnover). IPS represents one of the critical “barriers to entry” for individuals to any work organization. In this sense, fairness, equality, and nondiscrimination in the access to employment in a diverse workplace are fundamental objectives that can be achieved through social dialogue. IPS can be conceptualized as procedurally fair. This chapter is organized into three main sections as well as an introduction to relevant concepts within the IPS. The first one introduces some of the most relevant techniques for selection, together with the evidence of criterion-oriented validity, which is the first aspect to be taken into account in inclusive and nondiscrimination in IPS and includes several recommendations on this discrimination-free personnel selection. The second section is devoted to the empirical research on applicant perceptions and reactions to selection techniques and the implications for the practice of IPS. In the third and final section, several justice principles and recommendations are established to evaluate whether a personnel selection procedure is inclusive and discrimination-free.
This chapter was partially supported by Grant PSI2014-56615-P from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness to Silvia Moscoso and Jesús F. Salgado and by Grant PSI2013-44584-R to Antonio García-Izquierdo.
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In personnel selection, coefficients of less than .15 are usually considered to be scarcely valid; The validity between .16 and .30 is usually considered small; Moderately valid coefficients between .31 and .40 and of appreciable validity the coefficients greater than .40. From .50, it is understood that the validity is excellent. However, it is also necessary to take into account the type of criterion being predicted and that some instruments that show little validity may, however, be interesting, since such validity could increase that achieved by other instruments.
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Operational validity is the correlation between an assessment method (e.g., interview) and job performance after correction for job performance reliability and any range restriction in the measure used.
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Forced choice (FC) is a specific format of rating procedures. The FC method gives the individual (e.g., the applicant) a number of words or phrases, along with instructions to select the ones he or she most or least likes. The number of words or phrases may be, for instance, pairs, triads, or tetrads, which are paired in terms of an index of preference and discrimination (e.g., social desirability). Three types of scores can be obtained from a FC personality inventory (ipsative, quasi-ipsative, and normative). Quasi-ipsative inventories include measures that do not totally meet the criterion of pure ipsativity, because, for example, not all alternatives ranked by respondents are scored or the scales have different numbers of items.
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Salgado, J.F., Moscoso, S., García-Izquierdo, A.L., Anderson, N.R. (2017). Inclusive and Discrimination-Free Personnel Selection. In: Arenas, A., Di Marco, D., Munduate, L., Euwema, M. (eds) Shaping Inclusive Workplaces Through Social Dialogue. Industrial Relations & Conflict Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66393-7_7
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