VALIDITY AND UTILITY OF PERSONALITY-ASSES SMENT

Personality evaluation is fundamental for consultants and for personne l departments. Psychologists intervene professionally for the most par t in organizations with more than 500 employees. Here candidates must adapt themselves to a well-defined model. However, underlying theoreti cal, psychometric and structural problems must be considered. The pred ictive model is not the only alternative. Job analysis, the study of p sychosocial work group or organizational characteristics are situation al bases upon which psychological evaluation may be designed. Not only individual work performance, but performance means and group producti vity should be considered in utility analyses. The problems are concep tual and strategic rather than methodological.