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Management Attitudes Toward Employrnent Tests
Author(s) -
WARE FREDRIC L.,
KERR WILLARD A.
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1957.tb00784.x
Subject(s) - psychology , variety (cybernetics) , selection (genetic algorithm) , test (biology) , social psychology , personnel selection , management , statistics , economics , paleontology , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology
Summary T his is the second in a series of studies on attitudes of industrial personnel toward employment tests. A total of 116 executives in a variety of industries returned a questionnaire similar to that used to poll workers in a previous study. Intercorrelations were computed among variables of importance. In general, management believes employment tests to be valuable aids in selection and placement. Furthermore, executives also indicate a much more favorable opinion of how employees react to tests than was previously supposed. The authors conclude that employer reluctance to adopt scientific selection procedures probably should not be attributed to poor managerial opinions of tests and false beliefs about worker reactions toward tests.