by Warren Bobrow | Apr 15, 2014 | Leadership, Legal Issues, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Talent Management
First, welcome to all of the new subscribers! As I’m sure you have heard, Brendan Eich was forced out as CEO of Mozilla (best known for its Firefox browser) when it became public knowledge that he gave $1,000 six years ago in support of California’s Proposition 8,...
by Warren Bobrow | Mar 20, 2014 | Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management
Those of you who follow professional basketball (and maybe just live in LA or NY) know that Phil Jackson has been hired by the New York Knicks to be their president of basketball operations. Mr. Jackson was a role player on the Knicks’ championship teams in the 70s...
by Warren Bobrow | Mar 12, 2014 | Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management
The Big Round Table I had a chance to participate in a very large roundtable discussion on hiring last week. Also participating were CEOs, other consultants (none I/O psychologists), students and executives of medium-sized businesses It was a pretty free-wheeling...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 28, 2014 | Legal Issues, Pre-Employment Testing, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
Let me start by saying that I have a lot of respect for my I/O psychology colleagues who work in the public sector. They work under many constraints that the private sector does not and their selection systems face much greater scrutiny. And they also have to deal...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 4, 2014 | Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment
When providing incentives on job, you are making a couple of implicit assumptions: That the incentive (money, time off, balloon, etc.) is meaningful to the person receiving it and that it encourages behavior that also helps the business. So, what’s not to like,...
by Warren Bobrow | Jan 28, 2014 | Legal Issues, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management, Test Validation
Economists are really taking a liking to human resources. Perhaps this is an off-shoot of psychologists winning Nobel prizes in economics so they are moving into our turf. Or, maybe it is because they love large data sets and technology has made them aware that...
