Role of Testing Employees

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Introduction

The world in which we live is moving at rapid and fast pace. The reason because of which the life and the world have adopted this fast and furious pace is the technological advancements and methodological updates. This in turn has increased the competition. In the business arena, the competition is of ct throat and fierce. In this competition, it is increasingly important for the organizations to hire employees that would lend a hand to them to attain competitive advantage. In order to hire right, effective and efficient employees the recruitment department adopts variegated techniques. One such method is of testing. The aim and objective of this paper is to discuss the concept of role of testing in selection of employees. To undertake this discussion two articles are selected and discussion is undertaken on the basis of these two articles. The phenomenon of testing is discussed from the particular perspective of personality testing in the light of these two articles.

Selected Articles

The two articles that are selected on the basis of which the discussion would undertake are as follows:

The name of the first article is “Psychological tests in personnel selection”, by Wesley, A. Scroggins, Steven, L, Thomas and Jerry A, Morris. The name of the second article is “Role of social desirability in personality testing for personnel selection: The red herring”, by Ones, Deniz S; Reiss, Angelika D; Viswesvaran, Chockalingam.

Discussion

The main focus of the first article is to talk about the process of employee selection testing. This article tracks the history of the selections and testing process. The article inculcates the aspects of testing the candidates and developing tests to evaluate candidates from the 19th century till today. age. This article particularly talks about the personality testing. With regard to the ...