Human resource managers rely on many different instruments, tools, and techniques to select, promote, retain, and release employees based on how well individuals are contributing to the organization's strategic and operational goals

Human resource managers rely on many different instruments, tools, and techniques to select, promote, retain, and release employees based on how well individuals are contributing to the organization's strategic and operational goals. These tools and techniques are often a direct result of scientific methodologies in an applied setting.

How can a psychological practitioner contribute to an organization's strategic vision in regard to employee selection? What skills, competencies, and tools can a psychological practitioner utilize?

• Select and share a skill, competency, or tool.
• Discuss the similarities and differences between its implementation by a human resource manager and its implementation by a psychological practitioner.
• Address the qualifications or credentialing required to administer and interpret certain instruments in the workplace. Use the Mental Measurements Yearbook (available in the Capella University Library) when you are considering the use of a published instrument. In your selection of an instrument, examine and summarize that instrument's reliability and validity data, what it is intended to measure, the population on which it was normed, and what qualifications one might need to possess to use the instrument.

Response Guidelines

Respond to two other learners. Your responses to other learners are expected to be (a) substantive in nature and to reference the assigned readings, as well as to (b) synthesize and cite peer-reviewed journal articles found in your search of the library's journal databases and other empirical and theoretical literature to support your views and writings.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

• Analyze the psychological tools, methods, and practices typically used in personnel and human resource management.

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