Outback steakhouse a familiar name with a behind the scenes twist. Outback is not only a leader in the 3.25 billion dollar company but they also employ over 65,000 employees and have 1,000 restaurants worldwide. This company understands what it takes to have employees who work hard, are loyal, and fit into the company’s culture. They take methods that have been deemed reliable and valid after lots of testing and utilize those tactics to hire wait staff. As well as management positions that will be long term and help foster the growth of their organization. Validity and Reliability At Outback they utilize several tactics to hire just the right people including; personality testing, structured interviews and an approach known as multiple hurdles. Multiple hurdles is used to screen candidates, where they have to pass a series of tests and once one is passed the candidate can move to the next and so on. These candidates are especially screened for superb skills because Outback sets a high standard. Besides standards in Outback the culture is extremely important and they put candidates through a series of tests their “cognitive ability, personality and judgement” that have proven to be both valid and reliable as it yields promising results in the past. …show more content…
In our organization we need to implement a screening and hiring process for new hires that will weed out those that will not live up to the standard set by the company. In addition, we should provide our existing employees with a personality test that could help us to begin this process so that we could look for key characteristics that will provide us with a standard for new hires to