Applied Psychology in Personnel Management

A conceptual model for viewing the personnel process is introduced in Chapter 3 where an open systems approach portrays the topical areas of job analysis and evaluation, human resource planning, recruitment and initial screening, selection, training, and performance appraisal as a network of sequential, interdependent components comprising a complex personnel process. The model presented in Chapter 3 provides a framework and structure for the rest of the book. Each of the topical areas of the personnel process is sequentially addressed in subsequent chapters. Other major topics covered include: the law and personnel management; measurement of individual differences; compensation and rewards; and ethical issues in human resource management. The book places great emphasis on the use of systematic and reliable procedures of measurement and assessment throughout the human resource management domain.