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ASSESSMENT CENTERS AND SUBORDINATE APPRAISALS OF MANAGERS: A SEVEN‐YEAR EXAMINATION OF PREDICTIVE VALIDITY
Author(s) -
McEVOY GLENN M.,
BEATTY RICHARD W.
Publication year - 1989
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.1744-6570.1989.tb01550.x
Subject(s) - assessment center , predictive power , psychology , predictive validity , agency (philosophy) , supervisor , center (category theory) , incremental validity , social psychology , applied psychology , test validity , clinical psychology , psychometrics , law , political science , philosophy , chemistry , epistemology , crystallography
Assessment center ratings of 52 state law enforcement agency managers predicted both a contaminated promotions criterion and two uncontaminated ratings criteria, but they did significantly better in predicting the former. Criteria data were gathered two, four, and seven years after the assessment center, and a modest upward trend in validity coefficients was observed. Ratings by subordinates demonstrated promise as a near term predictor, outperforming the assessment center on uncontaminated criteria in the two‐ and four‐year time frames. Last, regression analyses using Year 7 criteria revealed unique predictive power for both ratings by subordinates and assessment centers above and beyond that provided by supervisor ratings. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Academy of Management meeting, Anaheim, California, August 7‐10, 1988.