Hiring Practices

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This paper explains that one of the most serious issues in hiring practices is how the people the company hires are selected and that often a company's selection process makes it vulnerable to lawsuits by rejected applicants who feel they were dealt with unfairly. The paper further explains that the best a company can do is to examine its hiring practices as carefully as possible to reduce the possibility that such lawsuits can be successful. The paper then takes a look at which hiring practices best achieve that goal.

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"While many companies may use some form of written tests in their decision-making processes, some tools commonly used in hiring are based, at least to some extent, on personal judgment. They include reference checks, background investigations, medical exams, drug tests, and polygraph tests (Foley et. al., 2000). One reason these approaches can make problems for employers is that they seek to ferret out negative qualities in candidates. Some human resource professionals advocate using the evaluation of positive traits in order to select new employees. Such tools as cognitive ability tests, biographical information blanks, structured interviews, work samples, and personality tests (Foley et. al., 2000) do a good job of predicting whether the person will be an effective employee or not and look at positive rather than negative traits a candidate might possess."

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