Construct-oriented biodata: Capturing change-related and contextually relevant future performance

This study highlights an approach to the development of performance and pre dictor constructs that has the potential to permit context and culture rele vant selection. Task, contextual and adaptive measures of performance were used as criterion data in a selection study involving 325 staff in the hote l industry. Construct-oriented biodata were developed to predict adaptive a nd contextual performance and the validities were contrasted with measures of cognitive ability and personality. The results provided construct suppor t for the separation of adaptive performance from task and contextual perfo rmance and for the predictive validity of change-related biodata after cont rolling for cognitive ability. The pattern of correlations among the person ality measures, biodata scales and cognitive tests supported the construct validity of the biodata scales. Results are discussed in relation to the co ntext in which the data were collected, and the general relevance of the pr ocedure across countries or cultures.