Hitt Stewart And Porter Management Analysis

As I was reading chapters Six and Seven in Hitt, Stewart, and Porter Management chapter Seven stood out to me the most. Human Resource is a subject that truly interests me and I hope I could gain a position as an HR Manager in the future. A concept I learned in chapter Seven is there is a difference in the interviewing styles. One is unstructured, which is an idea of questions an employer has for the potential employee and not every individual who gets an interview will be asked the same questions (Hitt, Black, & Porter, 2001, p. 176). The second interview style is structured, which is a standard set of questions to be asked to each individual being interviewed (Hitt et al., 2011, p. 176). I had assumed that all interviews were done the same by asking a …show more content…
I believe these are ideal ways to assess a future employee. An ideal example of the valid selection techniques is when a manager uses the techniques, interviewing, and background and reference checks. A particular candidate outshines the others, but little did the employer know that the star candidate references where friends and family made to seem as past employers and she was an expert in fabricating and answering interview questions. She obviously was hired and this is when her true colors came out. Since she fabricated her past experience and employers she did not comprehend a thing for the position she was hired for and she resulted in costing the company billions of dollars. Only if the employers used the techniques work sampling and work simulation to simulate or duplicate the job she would have done would they have realized she was fabricating everything (Hitt, Black, & Porter, 2001, p. 177). I took the quiz Assessing Your Capabilities in chapter Seven. I assume the quiz was out of one hundred; my score was fifty seven. My score was almost neutral, however slightly higher, indicating I seem to be less tolerant of