Business Communication or Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection

Business Communication: Communicate Effectively in Any Business Environment

Author: Arthur H Bell

You can get there

Where do you want to go? You might already be working in a business setting. You may be looking to expand your skills. Or, you might be setting out on a new career path.

Wherever you want to go, Business Communication will help you get there. Easy-to-read, practical, and up-to-date, this text not only helps you learn fundamental business communication concepts; it also helps you master the core competencies and skills you need to succeed in the classroom and beyond. The book's brief, modular format and variety of built-in learning resources enable you to learn at your own pace and focus your studies.

With this book, you will be able to:
* Incorporate active listening, assertive speaking, and non-verbal communication techniques into your daily communications.
* Resolve conflicts effectively.
* Choose the best words and voice for your audience.
* Craft persuasive business letters.
* Avoid common writing mistakes.
* Plan and lead successful business meetings.
* Overcome your fears of public speaking.
* Write winning business proposals.
* Create a resume that helps you get the job you want.
* Present yourself professionally in an interview.

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Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection

Author: Robert M Guion

Essentials of Personnel Assessment and Selection discusses the essentials that managers and other well-educated people should know about the assessment processes so widely used in contemporary society--and so widely not understood. It emphasizes that good prediction requires well-formed hypotheses about personal characteristics that may be related to valued behavior at work and the need for developing a theory of the attribute one hypothesizes as a predictor--a thought process too often missing from work on selection procedures. In addition, it explores such topics as team-member selection, situational judgment tests, non-traditional tests, individual assessment, and testing for diversity. The goal is to produce an accessible guide to assessment that covers basic and advanced concepts in a straight-forward, readable style. It provides a review of the most relevant statistical concepts and modern selection practices that will equip the reader with the tools needed to be competent consumers of assessment procedures and practices, and to be well-informed about the kinds of questions to be answered in evaluating them.

This book will appeal to instructors of advanced undergraduate and master's level courses on personnel selection and assessment. If supplemented by other readings on selected topics, it would be useful in doctoral seminars. Also, students interested in becoming users of research-based assessment and selection information and techniques will find it useful.

Table of Contents:

	About the Authors
	About This Book
I	Deciding What to Assess
1	Understanding Personnel Assessment	3
2	Analyzing Organizations and Jobs	20
3	Developing Predictive Hypotheses	51
4	Knowing What's Legal (and What's Not)	81
II	Knowing How to Assess
5	Minimizing Error in Measurement	115
6	Predicting Future Performance	153
7	Using Multivariate Statistics	173
8	Making Judgments and Decisions	189
9	Analyzing Bias and Assuring Fairness	206
III	Choosing the Right Method
10	Assessing Via Tests	235
11	Assessing Via Ratings	258
12	Assessing Via Inventories and Interviews	284
13	Combining Multiple Assessments	313
	References	341
	Author Index	363
	Subject Index	369