Employee Evaluation and Selection

Constructs for employee evaluation and selection questions

Construct 4 | Decision making ability

Analysis

Relating and comparing data from different sources, identifying issues, securing relevant information, and identifying relationships.
(Many positions require individuals who can evaluate a situation and identify existing problems or opportunities, or visualize potential problems or opportunities. These individuals need to have the ability to gather and analyze the facts needed to determine the most likely cause of potential solutions for problems or the critical issues in and potential means to exploit opportunities before making a decision.)

Judgement

Developing alternative courses of action and making decisions which are based on logical assumption and which reflect factual information.
(Alternative definition) Making rational and realistic decisions which are based on logical assumptions and which reflect actual information and consideration of organizational resources.
(Many positions require people to make decisions in several areas. Judgement reflects the degree to which people use the information they are given or have obtained, develop alternative possibilities, perceive the appropriateness of the actions open to them, understand the pros and cons of each alternative; and choose the most appropriate alternative.)

Decisiveness

Readiness to make decisions, render judgements, take action, or commit oneself.
(Some positions require an individual who knows how many facts are necessary to make a given decision. They require people who can and will make decision, given sufficient data, and not needlessly seek or wait further information.)

Oral fact finding

Gathering information for decision making through questioning

Financial analytical ability

Competency to understand and analyze financial data.

Extra-organizational awareness

Use of knowledge of changing societal and governmental pressures outside the organization to identify potential organizational problems and opportunities.

Recognition of safety needs

Awareness of conditions that affect employees safety needs.

Innovation (creativity)

Generating and / or recognizing imaginative, creative solutions in work related situations.

Risk taking

Taking or initiating action which involves a deliberate gamble in order to achieve a recognized benefit or advantage.

Organizational sensitivity

Perceiving the impact and the implications of decisions on other components of the organization.

Extra-organizational sensitivity

Perceiving the impact and the implications of decisions relevant to societal and governmental factors.

Controlled decision making

Skill identifying decisions which are better made after thought and deliberation. Rejects of the tendency to be prematurely forced into making unnecessarily quick decisions.

In the next section, the use to which these constructs are put to in the selection process, prior to compiling job interview questions for each and for particular jobs, profile analysis, is explained.

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