CONTENT VALIDITY - A NEGLECTED STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPING MANAGERIAL SELECTION TESTS

There is a lack of quick, valid, and cost effective methods for select ion of low-and midlevel managerial personnel. Using content-valid meth ods to develop managerial selection instruments may reap substantial b enefits for applicants as well as for the organizations using such too ls. To this end, based upon extensive job analysis, a content-valid ma nagerial selection test was developed. Criterion-based validity collec ted on the new instrument suggested that an instrument developed using content-valid procedures can also show acceptable levels of criterion validity.