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Personnel Review 31,5 580
Recent trends and challenges in personnel selection
Department of Personnel Management and Work and Organisational Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Department of Work and Organisational Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Keywords Personnel, Labour market, Technology Abstract The aim of this article is to identify recent developments in personnel selection and to review existing research with regard to these recent developments. To this end, 26 human resource representatives were asked to list current or future trends in personnel selection. In addition, existing academic reviews of recent research in personnel selection were scrutinized. As a result, the following four main trends are identified: labour market shortages, technological developments, applicant perceptions of selection procedures, and construct-driven approaches. Per trend, relevant existing research is reviewed and avenues for future research are discussed.
Filip Lievens
Karen van Dam Neil Anderson
Personnel Review, Vol. 31 No. 5, 2002, pp. 580-601. # MCB UP Limited, 0048-3486 DOI 10.1108/00483480210438771
Introduction Recent developments within organisations and within organisational business environments have brought new challenges for personnel selection. Specifically, technological changes, globalisation, social trends, and changes in the organisation of work require that organisations reconsider the modus operandi of their employee selection procedures. Hence, the traditional selection model with its psychometric roots might no longer suffice (Herriot and Anderson, 1997; Iles, 1999). This traditional personnel selection paradigm is based on...
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