Personnel selection: Looking toward the future - Remembering the past

This chapter reviews personnel selection research from 1995 through 1999. A reas covered are job analysis; performance criteria; cognitive ability and personality predictors; interview, assessment center, and biodata assessmen t methods; measurement issues; meta-analysis and validity generalization; e valuation of selection systems in terms of differential prediction, adverse impact, utility, and applicant reactions; emerging topics on team selectio n and cross-cultural issues; and finally professional, legal, and ethical s tandards. Three major themes are revealed: (a) Better taxonomies produce be tter selection decisions; (b) The nature and analyses of work behavior are changing, influencing personnel selection practices; (c) The field of perso nality research is healthy, as new measurement methods, personality constru cts, and compound constructs of well-known traits are being researched and applied to personnel selection.