Personnel Selection and Employee Assessment

Principal Investigators: Charles Scherbaum, Harold Goldstein, and Elliott Larson

The Personnel Selection and Employee Assessment lab focuses on issues of diversity in the context of employee selection, job analysis, measuring individual differences, compensation, performance assessment, and assessing employee attitudes. We study explanations for racial differences on intelligence and cognitive ability tests, non-cognitive predictors of job performance, attitudes toward stigmatized employees, performance assessment, neuroscience, employee selection, and sports psychology. The research conducted in this lab draws heavily on recent advances in cognitive science and theory (e.g., neuroscience), analytical and methodological techniques (e.g., eye tracking), and new computer technology (e.g., AI and ML).

Other current projects include: (1) the validity and fairness of modern measures of intelligence; (2) the role of specific cognitive abilities predicting job performance; (3) measuring intelligence and cognitive processes using eye tracking; (4) factors impacting the reliability of interview ratings; (5) examining rater source effects in job analysis ratings; (6) job components validation; (7) ability tilt in cognitive and non-cognitive individual differences; (8) the validity of physical ability tests; and (9) factors impacting performance on asynchronous video interviews.

The Personnel Selection and Employee Assessment Lab is part of Baruch College’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Interested undergraduates can find more information at the Baruch College NSF REU site.