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An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of the Interview for Competency Assessment(PDF)

《南京师大学报》(社会科学版)[ISSN:1006-6977/CN:61-1281/TN]

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2013年02期
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Title:
An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of the Interview for Competency Assessment
Author(s):
PAN Chi-chun SHENG Yu-hua
Keywords:
management competency interview convergent validity discriminant validity predictive validity
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Abstract:
The effectiveness of the interview about competency assessment depends upon the effective matching between: characteristics of the management job in question; the structural degree of the interview and its question form; and the judges’ ability to make adequate assessment. Through combining semi-structured interviews with behavioral test, the interview panel made of researchers, senior management and the head of the personnel department will interview the candidates applying for the senior and junior positions of the management. From the perspective of convergent validity, discriminant validity and predictive validity, we conduct an empirical research on the method of improving the validity of the interview for the competency assessment. The result shows that the convergent validity and discriminant validity of evaluation are.647 and.431 respectively. In terms of the coincidence degree to which the evaluation results match the final comprehensive evaluation results, the predictive validity is 94%. Taking as the criteria whether the candidates get promoted in two years or their direct superiors’ assessment of their performance, the overall prediction is more effective and the predictive validity of competency assessment in the case of the middle-senior positions is better than that of the senior management positions.

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