Employee Selection : Best Practices for Reducing Legal Risk in Pre-Hire Assessments

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Fisher, Daniel R. Nobile, Robert J.
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	The Need For Selection Assessment In an increasingly competitive domestic and international market, hiring the best people is considered one of the most critical elements of a company’s success. In the course of his research, Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, found that one of the fundamental differences that distinguishes great companies from good ones has to do with a company’s ability to determine "Who should be on the bus”. Collins’ research showed that while most companies do not pay enough attention to getting the right people on the bus, those companies that have gone from good to great practice a principle of getting the right people on the bus, the wrong people off, and then allowing the right people to point the bus in the right direction. Not surprisingly, while personnel selection is important at all levels of an organization, it is most critical at senior executive levels. Collins argues that investing resources into selecting the right people is even more critical to an organization’s success than developing high-level strategy, since the wrong people will neither create nor effectively implement a good strategy. Given the importance of selecting the right people to get on the bus, it is not surprising that the popularity of selection assessments for use in hiring at all levels of the organization has increased dramatically in the last ten years and continues to rise.
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