Psychological Assessments



Psychological Assessments

Introduction

A mining company has recruited my firm, Futurework Organisation Consultants, for assessing the prospective Australian employees for jobs in Papua New Guinea. The major concern for the mining company is the ability of the applicant to work as part of the team and coping with being far from home. I work as an organizational psychologist in Futurework Organisation Consultants and I have been assigned the task of the mining company. Acquisition and utilization of human resource is very important for the accomplishment of organizational objectives. Human resource management is a core competency of every organization; since the system cannot run it requires human operations. Complete acquisition and maximum utilization of human resource results in increased productivity and decreased cost. In this report I will discuss how the employees will be selected, what information will be collected, what approach will be used and the limitations as well as the advantages of the selected approach.

Selection Process

The recruitment and selection of the employees is the most significant part of any organization. The main issue in this area is that sometimes the recruitment and selection of the people is not done correctly by the organization which results in further problems and hurdles for both the company as well as the employee. The company should hire quality human resource (Wiesner & Cronshaw, 1988). The backbone of any successful company is its human resource, and without a talented group of people to hire, culture, and inform employees, the company is doomed for failure. By adopting these solutions and strategies, the company will again get stable and will regain its lucrative profits. When the company hires more employees, the workload is equally divided among them all. They will be able to perform better and more efficiently as they will not be overburdened and overworked. Each of them will be assigned specific tasks each day and will easily accomplish those tasks. Even if, some of the employees face problems, they can be given proper training to overcome their problems and difficulties (Anastasi & Urbina, 1997).

They should properly evaluate each person's professional as well as academic background while also assessing their suitability for the job post. After selecting the appropriate individuals, they properly evaluate each candidate as per the job requirements. The mining company needs such candidates who can work as a team and are able to work far away from home. Firstly, the company must analyze the CVs of the hopeful candidates. They must ensure that they shortlist those candidates that fit their requirements of the job. The further selection process can be job related tests and interviews. For this, the company must develop certain job related tests for their required job and the suitable candidate first has to conduct the test that he has applied for. The test scores will indicate whether the person is suitable or not (Gregory, 2011). After passing the job related tests, the candidates must be asked to come for the interview. From this interview, the overall personality and professionalism ...