Fire departments in half of the major metropolitan cities in North America use assessment centers in making selection decisions for a wide variety of positions. This study examines the extent and characteristics of their usage and offers both theoretical and practical explanations for the patterns identified.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
AlexanderL.D.“An exploratory study of the utilization assessment center results,”Academy of Management Journal22 (1979) 152–157.
2.
BenderJ.M.“What is typical of assessment centers,”Personnel50 (1973), 50–57.
3.
BoehmV.“Assessment centers and management developments,” in RowlandK.M.FerrisG.R., Eds. Personnel Management.Newton, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1982, 327–362.
4.
BrayD.W.CampbellR.J.GrantD.L.Formative Years in Business: A Long-term AT&T Study of Managerial Lives.New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1974.
5.
BrayD.W.GrantD.L.“The assessment center in the measurement of potential for business management,”Psychological Monographs, 1976, 80 (17), Whole No. 625.
6.
CohenS.L.“The bottom line on assessment center technology: Results of a cost benefit analysis,”Personnel Administrator, 25 (2), 1980, 50–56.
7.
CutchinD.AlonsoD.“Solving personnel problems through the assessment center,”Management Information Service Report, 13 (2), (1981), 1–17.
8.
FitzgeraldL.F.QuaintanceM.K.“Survey of assessment center use in state and local government,”Journal of Assessment Center Technology, 198291), 9–21.
9.
GolembiewskiR.T.BillingsleyK.“A critical decision in survey/feedback designs: To identify respondents or not?”Group and Organization Studies, 1, (1976), 449–454.
HinrichsJ.R.“An eight-year follow-up of a management assessment center,”Journal of Applied Psychology, 63, (1978), 596–601.
12.
HowardA.“An assessment of assessment centers,”Academy of Management Journal, 17, (1974), 115–134.
13.
HuckJ.R.“Assessment Centers: A Review of External and Internal Validities,”Personnel Psychology, 26, (1973), 191–212.
14.
JaffeeC.L.BenderJ.CalvertO.L.“The assessment center technique: A validation study,”Management of Personnel Quarterly, 9, (1970), 9–14.
15.
KlimoskiR.J.StricklandW.J.“Assessment centers—valid or merely prescient,”Personnel Psychology, 30, (1977), 353–361.
16.
KrautA.I.“A hard look at management assessment centers and their future,”Personnel Journal, 51, (1972), 317–326.
17.
MillardC.W.PinskyS.“Assessing the assessment center: Can they accurately predict success?”Personnel Administrator, 25 (5), (1980), 85–88 and 98.
18.
MosesJ.L.BoehmV.R.“Relationship of assessment center performance to management progress of women,”Journal of Applied Psychology, 60, (1975), 337–344.
19.
ParkerT.C.“Assessment centers—A statistical study: How did past users of AMA's assessment centers respond to the concept and its effectiveness?”Personnel Administrator, 25 (2), (1980), 65–67.
20.
RitchieR.J.MosesJ.L.“Assessment center correlates of women's advancement into middle management: A 7-year longitudinal analysis,”Journal of Applied Psychology68, (1983), 227–231.
21.
SackettP.R.DreherG.F.“Constructs and assessment center dimensions: Some troubling empirical findings,”Journal of Applied Psychology, 67, (1982), 401–410.
22.
SteinerR.Managing the Human Service Organization: From Survival to Achievement.Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1977.
23.
WorboisG.M.“Validation of externally developed assessment procedures for identification of supervisory potential,”Personnel Psychology, 28, (1975), 77–91.
