Assessment Centres within the South African Workplace: Relationship between a
Situational Judgement Test and Ability and Personality Measures.This research investigates the relationship of a specific situational judgement test,
Scenarios, to that of ability and personality measures through a discriminant validation
study. The Scenarios Test was developed in order to assess the construct of Managerial
Judgement within the work context. Despite the fact that this instrument has demonstrated
reliability and validity evidence, this has been primarily obtained within a European
context. Therefore, this study will contribute towards the growing body of evidence
supporting the psychometric integrity of the use of Scenarios within a South African
context. Moreover, this research aims to determine whether or not a situational judgement
test of Managerial Judgement provides information relating to constructs which are not
sufficiently measured by ability tests and personality questionnaires. The results indicate
that there is significant inter-correlation between the scales of Scenarios, but not between
Scenarios and the other instruments used (cognitive ability tests and a trait personality
measure). This may support the hypothesis that SJTs could measure a broader underlying
construct, such as tacit knowledge, as well as the fact that they may provide unique
information relating to candidates‟ potential job performance which is not provided by
tests of ability and personality. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/6377 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Caruth, Emma. |
| Contributors | Bobat, Shaida. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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