Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2023
Abstract
Sackett et al. (2022) identified previously unnoticed flaws in the way range restriction corrections have been applied in prior meta-analyses of personnel selection tools. They offered revised estimates of operational validity, which are often quite different from the prior estimates. The present paper attempts to draw out the applied implications of that work. We aim to a) present a conceptual overview of the critique of prior approaches to correction, b) outline the implications of this new perspective for the relative validity of different predictors and for the tradeoff between validity and diversity in selection system design, c) highlight the need to attend to variability in meta-analytic validity estimates, rather than just the mean, d) summarize reactions encountered to date to Sackett et al., and e) offer a series of recommendations regarding how to go about correcting validity estimates for unreliability in the criterion and for range restriction in applied work.
Keywords
range restriction corrections, meta-analyses, personnel selection tools, operational validity, predictor validity, selection system design, validity and diversity tradeoff, meta-analytic validity, criterion unreliability, correction techniques
Discipline
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources
Publication
Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice
Volume
16
Issue
3
First Page
1
Last Page
18
ISSN
1754-9426
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Embargo Period
4-4-2023
Citation
SACKETT, Paul R.; ZHANG, Charlene; BERRY, Christopher M.; and Filip LIEVENS.
Revisiting the design of selection systems in light of new findings regarding the validity of widely used predictors. (2023). Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice. 16, (3), 1-18.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7188
Copyright Owner and License
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1017/iop.2023.24
