Annotated Bibliographies for a Candidacy Selection Project: Analysis of Literature Reviews Luis Navarro, Jr. Southern New Hampshire University Annotated Bibliographies for a Candidacy Selection Project: Analysis of Literature Reviews Arthur, W., Woehr, D. J., & Graziano, W. G. (2001). Personality testing in employment settings: Problems and issues in the application of typical selection practices. Personnel Review, 30(6), 657-676. The authors explain, within in this article, the issues of multi-dimensional issues of personality, linear selection model(s), effects of self-selection, biases’ with social desirability, impressionism, and among other complexes (e.g., top-down selection, legal implications). Undoubtedly, in the …show more content…
The authors reveal the Wonderlic Personnel Test (WPT) was used as the instrument; which supports the high predictive validity in measuring general mental ability in the workplace. As a result, the participant control group and the experimental group emerged with significant measures for extracurricular activities, except sports and those holding leadership positions in fraternities/sororities and sports team. This is useful since club/organizations (e.g., honor societies) hold purposeful in applying into graduate school and prestigious …show more content…
It also questions future research on identifying the main factors that assessments reveal, not only about GMA; work sample test; integrity test; structured interview; but also about alternative predictors pertinent to openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism (OCEAN, or Big Five) personality traits. More importantly, the reader must ask if all ethnic groups exhibit the same results or even levels of education – in participation. All the while, the authors explain there is much research to be investigated on these