Validity of a Large-Scale Assessment Battery in an Industrial Setting

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Abstract
This article contains a description of a validity study carried out with 238 employees of a large telephone company. Cognitive ability tests, including measures of general intelligence, reading, writing, vocabulary, quantitative ability, and two divergent production abilities, were given. Two personality inventories, the CPI and 16PF, were employed. Two administrative-skills measures derived from a locally-constructed In-Basket exercise completed the battery. A small number of interpretively and predictively useful molar personality/motivational scales were derived using factor analysis. Then these scales and those from the other domains were correlated with a number of supervisory performance criteria obtained by an independent performance appraisal. Some measures from each of the domains of the assessment battery were found to be significantly related to certain aspects of criterion performance.