A Review Of Personnel Selection Approaches For The Skill Of Decision Making

Personnel Selection has been a long standing focus in the fields of Organizational Psychology, Human Factors Psychology, Business Management, Human Resources, and Industrial Engineering. Assessment methods in personnel selection can be categorized into subjective and objective methods. Selection assessments are often broad in attempting to capture the essence of person for success in a role or organization. However, this type of approach often yields inconclusive and biased subjective results. Therefore, focusing on key skills seems to be more beneficial. The skill of focus for this effort is decision making. Since those who make more good decisions are often influential and rise to leadership positions, it is imperative that better ways to uncover, assess, predict, or enhance DM skills, be developed. To do so, a review and firm understanding of personnel selection and decision making is necessary