Download or read book Assessment and Development Centres written by Iain Ballantyne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first edition of this book, the level of interest and the varied forms of assessment and development centres have mushroomed. Iain Ballantyne and Nigel Povah's book looks at the entire process, from the underlying concepts to the most effective methods of validation - not forgetting the organizational politics involved. The main objectives of the book are: ¢ to establish a thorough understanding of the principles and practice of assessment and development centres; ¢ to provide sufficient knowledge to enable practitioners to run their own events in a professional manner; ¢ to help readers to recognise when they may need to call on outside expertise, and ¢ to equip readers to ask pertinent questions of any prospective advisers. This second edition includes guidance to reflect the significant developments within the technology, along with further advice on quality control, process improvements and further refinements to the increasingly popular development centre concept. Assessment and Development Centres represents a practical approach which is sure of a warm welcome from HR professionals.

Download or read book Assessment Centers and Managerial Performance written by George C. Thornton III and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment Centers and Managerial Performance presents the historical development of multiple assessment procedures with focus on those advances relevant to assessment centers. This book discusses the models of job analysis, the nature of managerial work, work-sampling assessment methods, and the process of human judgment based on the assessment center experience. Organized into 11 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the various methods to describe, evaluate, and predict management effectiveness. This text then describes a number of assessment programs, including the earliest assessment centers. Other chapters consider the five approaches to predicting managerial effectiveness, including psychometric testing, clinical evaluations by psychologists, supervisor's ratings of potentials background interviews, and assessment centers. This book discusses as well the three levels of managerial jobs, namely, supervisory, middle management, and executive. The final chapter deals with the development of standards for assessment center operations. This book is a valuable resource for psychologists.

Download or read book The assessment and selection handbook written by Ian Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessment Centers in Human Resource Management written by George C. Thornton III and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the evolution of the goals of assessment center programs and the ways in which assessment centers and their component parts have been used. This book differentiates between assessment centers used for prediction, diagnoses, and development. It also explores court cases involving assessment centers, assessor training, and more.

Download or read book Training for Assessors written by Lindy Strudwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment and Development Centres are very resource intensive, both in terms of time and money. Poorly trained assessors, resource people and role players can all have a huge adverse impact on the results of an Assessment and Development Centre. To ensure consistency in the performance of assessors, resource people and role players, they must all be well briefed and properly trained. This manual provides a practical guide, with everything you need to train assessors, resource people and role players. Parts One to Three of the manual deal with the behavioural assessment skills of observing, recording, classifying, summarizing and evaluating (ORCSE). There are exercises for learning and trying out the techniques needed for each stage of the process. There is also a collection of mock simulations, which allow potential assessors to put all of the skills together and practice for real. Part Four covers training for resource persons and role players, an area which is often overlooked. Training for Assessors is an essential resource for anyone running, or planning to run, assessment and/or development centres.

Download or read book Assessment Centres written by Charles Woodruffe and published by M.H.S.. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Psychology of Assessment Centers written by Duncan Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on the reliability and validity of assessment centers (ACs) has been ongoing for at least 50 years and continues to this day. The assessment center method is a technique or process that is used to assess individual performance and potential. One of the most heavily researched topics over the last 30 years has been the internal structure of AC ratings that assessors make on rating dimensions after the completion of each exercise. This volume, with contributions from experts from around the world, looks at Dimension-Based Assessment Centers, Task-Based Assessment Centers, and Mixed-Model Assessment Centers. All three perspectives are presented in different sections, and a summary of these diverse perspectives is given at the end of the book.

Download or read book 360 Degree Feedback and Assessment and Development Centres written by Rao and published by Excel Books India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 360 Degree Feedback, often used in tandem with Assessment and Development Centres, is a powerful technique pioneered in India by TV Rao Learning Systems, who have over the last five years applied this very successfully to many of India's large companies.This volume, the third and last in the series, is an indispensable corollary and companion to the second volume, in as much as the focus is on Leadership Development, one of the most urgently felt needs of the Corporate sector. Spurred on by the threats and opportunities of global competition, companies are now focusing on developing talented leaders. This book, in mapping the terrain and the strategies needed to compete, focuses inter alia on:l Assessment Centresl New Case Studies Pertaining to Top Indian Corporatesl Critical essays pertaining to Competency Mapping, 360 Degree Feedback, Assessment Centres, and Mergers & Acquisitionsl In-house Work by Organizations without outside AssistanceThese vital issues explored in elaborate detail in this book will be appreciated not only by practicing HR professionals and senior executives, but also by management students.

Download or read book Tools for Assessment and Development Centres written by Pearn Kandola and published by CIPD Publishing. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete toolkit of exercises and activities enables managers to design and implement their own assessment and development centres and to evaluate their effectiveness. The tools are laid out in a systematic chain link model and comprehensively cover each stage of the process.

Download or read book Organizational Assessment written by Charles Lusthaus and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational Assessment: A framework for improving performance

Download or read book Assessment Centre Success written by Tony Weightman and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment Centre Success is your road map to mastering the skills, exercises and challenges that you'll be faced with when trying to secure that prized job offer. An Assessment Centre can be daunting: you are likely to face a full day of challenging exercises, tests and skilled competitors. However, with the right level of practice and preparation, you will be able to confidently tackle whatever employers may throw at you. Written by experienced Assessment Centre planner, Tony Weightman, Assessment Centre Success contains a bank of practice exercises and insider tips to help you succeed. Individual exercises are covered, including how to deliver good presentations, reports, interviews and analysis under pressure as well as group exercises such as problem solving and team presentations. Expert guidance on how to demonstrate the key skills employers are looking for helps you understand how to show yourself in the best possible light under challenging circumstances: including leadership, team work, industry knowledge, keeping calm under pressure, decision making, analytical skills, confidence and communication skills.

Download or read book Mastering the Fire Service Assessment Center 2nd Ed written by Anthony Kastros and published by Fire Engineering Books. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Do you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to evaluate behavior, performance, and readiness? Read Mastering the Fire Service Assessment Center to identify what you need to learn and understand how to learn it. There is no way you can read and reflect on the wisdom in these pages and not become a better person and a better firefighter. Why Read This Book? The American fire service is facing a new normal fueled by mass exodus, influx of new generations of firefighters, a lack of hands-on leadership training, sweeping changes in mission, decimated budgets, and the genetics of task-oriented, reactive forefathers. The greatest and perhaps only area that we can affect directly is hands-on, inspiring, realistic, and useful training for our aspiring and incumbent leaders. This book will help you regardless of the fire officer rank you seek. It will help you know where you need to improve, how to develop a specific personal plan to become an excellent officer, and how to do well with whatever assessment center exercises throw at you. NEW MATERIAL in this second edition: --Enjoy reading “Wisdom from the Masters” from 18 fire service luminaries. They provide invaluable insights and challenges you will face as you prepare to promote, whether for the first time as a company officer or up the chain as a chief officer. --Learn lessons from thousands of students from the past 12 years whose feedback will benefit you in this second edition. --Benefit from the many new elements in this book, including relevant articles, additional exercises, and content regarding the dimensions of leadership, management, and emergency operations. The complexities of being a fire officer in the 21st century require an undercurrent of humility while continually pursuing mastery of leading in the modern fire service. Learn how to lead the modern-day firefighter in a modern world, with modern technology, modern fire behavior, and modern sociopolitical and economic challenges. Many firefighters ask themselves if they really want to do this job, but nothing is as professionally rewarding and challenging as leading others in battle to save lives! “This book will give you the greatest probability of success in your assessment center process.” —Bobby Halton, editor-in-chief, Fire Engineering magazine

Download or read book life after 360 degree feedback and assessment development centres written by and published by Excel Books India. This book was released on with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Impact Assessment for Development Agencies written by Chris J. R. Roche and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 1999 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the process of impact assessment and shows how and why it needs to be integrated into all stages of development programmes. In-depth case studies are included and show a variety of approaches.

Download or read book The Gower Assessment and Development Centre written by Julie Hay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment and Development Centres offer a detailed and objective way of assessing your people's potential, whether you are trying to: ¢ establish training and development needs ¢ identify potential for promotion ¢ assess and select new recruits to your organization or using the centre in some other way. To make this assessment possible involves a huge investment in time, money and effort to plan, design, administer and run each centre and to effectively analyse and use all of the data it will generate. These three volumes are designed to help you set up and run your own assessment and development centres within your organization. Alternatively, if you already run centres, the manuals will allow you to evaluate and improve your administration, planning and assessment as well as to introduce new exercises. Volume 2: Assessment Activities contains full documentation for the participants, the assessors and the programme manager for running a range of assessment simulations of: ¢ meetings where co-operation is called for ¢ meetings where participants have conflicting aims ¢ activities where participants must plan for contingencies and handle interruptions ¢ presentations and talks ¢ one-to-one interviews ¢ report and proposal writing exercises. Other volumes: Volume 1 Planning and Administration Volume 3 In-Tray Simulations Each volume is available separately or as a three volume set.

Download or read book Assessment Methods in Recruitment Selection Performance written by Robert Edenborough and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment centres, psychometric testing and structured interviews are all methods that are regularly used to select and recruit employees. Assessment Methods in Recruitment, Selection and Performance offers clear explanations of the principles behind these methods along with their history, practice and implementation. There is also an exploration of how these methods can be used to determine competencies to shape performance management systems. Complete with case studies, figures and illustrations, the book links selection and performance management by examining a number of issues including the use of selection and recruitment methods; the background and approaches to measurement within performance management; and, the use of information and communication technology in assessment and performance management.

Download or read book Institutional Assessment written by Charles Lusthaus and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1995 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutional Assessment: A framework for strengthening organizational capacity for IDRCs research partners