Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; PART I Deciding What to Assess; 1 Understanding Personnel Assessment; 2 Analyzing Organizations and Jobs; 3 Developing Predictive Hypotheses; 4 Knowing What's Legal (and What's Not); PART II Knowing How to Assess; 5 Minimizing Error in Measurement; 6 Predicting Future Performance; 7 Using Multivariate Statistics; 8 Making Judgments and Decisions; 9 Analyzing Bias and Ensuring Fairness; PART III Choosing the Right Method; 10 Assessing via Traditional Tests; 11 Assessing via Inventories and Interviews; 12 Assessing via Ratings.