Use assessment centers in skill development

Article Abstract:

The assessment center at Baldwin-Wallace College (Berea, OH) was designed to help students develop their managerial and career planning skills. The curriculum of the assessment center consists of a series of simulated exercises completed by participants and rated by assessors, who provide center participants with feedback. Baldwin-Wallace College enlisted the help of human resource executives in designing the management development center, over ninety-five percent of whom rated the center as well organized and useful for participants for it provides students with immediate feedback, skills assessment, and individual attention. The assessment center proves useful for businesses making hiring decisions for the exercises measure performance as well as ability.

Curricula, Baldwin-Wallace College

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Raise assessment standards

Article Abstract:

Job analysis data can be used to build a personnel assessment center through a series of steps that set up the procedure's content validity. The assessment center concept was originally developed by the Office of Strategic Services and then applied by AT & T in business. Relevant job behaviors are examined in order to assess the attributes, dimensions, characteristics, and qualities to be evaluated. More than one method is used to provide data, methods usually include at least one simulation exercise, multiple assessors are involved, and assessors' judgments are then pooled. An assessment center case study is presented for a bank that has a large central organization and a substantial number of branch offices distributed on a regional basis.

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Get it right the first time

Article Abstract:

The first performance appraisal of a new employee is arguably the most important. It provides employers a timely means of evaluating the decision to hire. lt also starts an employee's performance record and tends to influence subsequent appraisals disproportionately. It is therefore necessary to ensure that the first appraisal be valid. Recommendations for improving the performance appraisal process for new employees include: starting the appraisal dialogue early, giving detailed feedback on job performance, and having a short-term follow-up on career development.

Evaluation, Performance standards, Job performance standards, column

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