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Choosing How to Choose: Institutional Pressures Affecting the Adoption of Personnel Selection Procedures
Author(s) -
Klehe UteChristine
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/j.0965-075x.2004.00288.x
Subject(s) - selection (genetic algorithm) , personnel selection , human resource management , human resources , psychology , resource (disambiguation) , knowledge management , business , management science , management , computer science , economics , computer network , artificial intelligence
The gap between science and practice in personnel selection is an ongoing concern of human resource management. This paper takes Oliver's framework of organizations' strategic responses to institutional pressures as a basis for outlining the diverse economic and social demands that facilitate or inhibit the application of scientifically recommended selection procedures. Faced with a complex network of multiple requirements, practitioners make more diverse choices in response to any of these pressures than has previously been acknowledged in the scientific literature. Implications for the science‐practitioner gap are discussed.