Improving New Hire Turnover Through The Use Of Assessment Tools
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Keywords
PXT Assessment Instrument, Behavioral Trait, Thinking Styles, Occupational Interest, Coefficient Alpha, Construct Validity
Abstract
This study focuses on one organizations adoption and use of a specific job matching assessment instrument for all of their hiring decisions over a three-year period. The paper examines the effectiveness of the organizations hiring assessment tool as a process for reducing their new hire turnover. The results of the study shows a significant improvement (reduction) in the new hire turnover, compared with the previous three-year period without utilizing the tool. These findings are consistent with years of empirical research on personality, consisting of characteristics behavior measurements that predict how an individual behavior in various situations (Greenberg, 1980).