Utilizing Elaborated Situational Judgment Tests to Improve Selection, Enhance Training, and Facilitate Workplace Understanding and Cohesion

利用精心设计的情境判断测试来改进选择、加强培训并促进工作场所的理解和凝聚力

• 批准号: 2121275
• 负责人: Peter Harms
• 金额: $ 26.44万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2121275&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Utilizing; Elaborated; Situational; Judgment; Tests

Situational judgment tests (SJTs) are increasingly understood as a valuable tool for predicting organizational performance. However, many researchers have noted that they largely fail to represent the reasons certain actions are judged to be effective in organizational settings than others, or why respondents selected less effective actions. This project will focus on evaluating how elaborated situational judgment tests (ESJTs) – whereby respondents additionally rate the expected effects of responding in different ways to SJT scenarios – can address this limitation. Past work has detailed that ESJTs provide avenues for representing a person’s reasons for selecting different responses to job-relevant situations in the form of graphical causal models. This project will explore how ESJTs can be used to (a) represent how diverse populations (e.g., individuals of different age groups, genders, or ethnicities) understand particular workplace scenarios, (b) represent the role of situational factors in altering the effectiveness of specific organizational behaviors, and (c) provide opportunities for teaching more effective organizational behavior. By bringing these processes to light, EJSTs can be used to not only improve the validity of personnel selection systems and inform more effective workplace training procedures, but also to advance efforts to create a fairer and more inclusive work environment.In Project 1, ratings of the expected effects of different responses to organizational situations within a validated SJT will be collected from both working adults and subject matter experts. These ratings will be used to create new indices of the degree to which employees show an expert’s understanding of the effectiveness of different responses to job situations. These indices will be explored for their ability to predict organizational outcomes such as job performance and satisfaction beyond other valid predictors. In Project 2, a novel set of scenarios will be developed to detail how specific contextual factors (e.g., deadlines, relative organizational rank) alter the reasons for preferring one response to job-relevant situations over others. In Project 3, ESJT-based instruments will be explored as pedagogical tools that can supplement case studies in MBA and other professional programs for teaching effective decision-making, and for detailing how populations with different backgrounds and levels of experience come to perceive and process organizational situations differently. These can then be used to provide more concrete points for discussing how diverse groups come to understand “the same” organizational situations differently, and for teaching employees about the factors that make different responses to organizational situations more or less effective. The project will generate publicly available tools for creating and modeling data from elaborated situational judgment tasks, and for utilizing them effectively in both selection and job training contexts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

情境判断测试（SJT）是预测组织绩效的宝贵工具。 SJT这是一个限制或代表一个人以图形因果模型的形式选择与工作相关的情况的原因。种族）了解特定的工作场所情景，（b）众所周知，（c）通过将这些过程启动揭示，不仅可以提高人员系统的有效性和更有效的工作场所培训程序，而且更有效在两个工作成年人的专家中，将收集1个项目。他们的预测能力预测组织成果的能力以及其他有效的预测因素，详细介绍了特定的上下文因素（例如，截止日期，相对组织等级）改变了对工作3中的响应的原因，将基于ESJT的工具作为教学有效决策的教授计划，以不同的方式感知和过程。关于对组织的反应不同的因素。使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的审查标准，通过评估来使PPORT变得更加严重。

项目成果

Using field models and elaborated situational judgment tests to represent situational effects on psychological processes and behavior

使用现场模型和详细的情境判断测试来表示情境对心理过程和行为的影响

• DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100068
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
• 作者: Wood, Dustin;Lowman, Graham H.;Harms, P.D.
• 通讯作者: Harms, P.D.

Using retest-adjusted correlations as indicators of the semantic similarity of items.

使用重新测试调整的相关性作为项目语义相似性的指标。

• DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000441
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• 影响因子: 7.6
• 作者: Wood, Dustin;Lowman, Graham H.;Armstrong, Benjamin F.;Harms, P. D.
• 通讯作者: Harms, P. D.