The document discusses assessment centers, which are tools used to evaluate candidates' knowledge, behaviors, skills, and competencies through simulations and exercises. The assessment center process involves identifying job competencies, designing assessment materials, training assessors, communicating with participants, conducting evaluations, providing feedback, and reviewing the process. Assessment centers help organizations select the best candidates and identify future training needs. Their use has grown substantially in both public and private sector organizations.
The document discusses assessment centers, which are tools used to evaluate candidates' knowledge, behaviors, skills, and competencies through simulations and exercises. The assessment center process involves identifying job competencies, designing assessment materials, training assessors, communicating with participants, conducting evaluations, providing feedback, and reviewing the process. Assessment centers help organizations select the best candidates and identify future training needs. Their use has grown substantially in both public and private sector organizations.
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The document discusses assessment centers, which are tools used to evaluate candidates' knowledge, behaviors, skills, and competencies through simulations and exercises. The assessment center process involves identifying job competencies, designing assessment materials, training assessors, communicating with participants, conducting evaluations, providing feedback, and reviewing the process. Assessment centers help organizations select the best candidates and identify future training needs. Their use has grown substantially in both public and private sector organizations.
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The Assessment centers are today considered the most effective tools for identifying future managers. means they help a company to hire the best people by evaluating their knowledge,behavoural traits, skills, and competencies. Selected candidates go through simulations and situational exercise which are effective indicators of their abilities. Assessment centre process
• Identification and definition of the strategic purpose of the centre.
• Analysis of the target job or capability level to define the require competencies and skill for success. • Design of appropriate materials • Training of assessors to use assessment material. • Communication with the participants to inform them of the process. • A concluding, structured consolidation analysis and discussion final decision making process) to identify summary performance and capability for each individual. • Structure, consistently delivered feed back to the participant on that performance. • Review of the performance of the assessment process in delivering against the strategic needs identified at the beginning. Benefits to organizations: Assessment centers make it possible for organization to make use of the best methodology for assessing their employees” if the assessment is competency based the organization can use the overview data to plan acquire and develop the capabilities that it will need in the future. The use of Assessment centers in the industry
Modern assessment centers in the UK tend now to follow
the American format although there are still some which have their roots in the public sector civil service model. The growth in the use of assessment centers in the Uk has been rapid. In the 1986 Robertson and making reported that slightly more than one quarter of the organizations who employed 500 people or more used assessment centres.In 1989 Mabey reported that more than one third of the companies employing over 1000 people used them while most recently Boyletal reported that 45 per cent of the organizations who responded used assessment centres and that their use was more prevalent in the private sector and by larger organization. The main reason is behind this has been the realization that centres have the element of decision making in selection and promotion that can have a demoralizing effect on those individuals who have not been performing. USE OF ASSESSMENT CENTRE IN INDUSTRY
Many industry leaders are currently using assessment
centers and their modified forms to improve their human resources capital diverse companies like HUL,Ranbaxy,Tata Group,Tera nova,HSBC,ICICI,Colgate,Motorola have well defined assessment centers to look into the overall personal and organizational growth. A History of assessment centre
Assessment centers in the UK: How were the people
assessed earlier? This approach of an assessment center in organization started just two decades back. Looking into history in 1942 war office selection Broads were introduced in the UK to selected officers.Anstey recounts that the system where the boards replaced had clearly broken down. Assessment centre in the USA: In the USA the pioneering work undertaken by the office of strategic studies used the method to select spies during the second world war in the USA post war development moved to the private sector. The pioneer was the American Telephone and Telegraph company, which used assessment centers in its management progress study, which began in 1956 to investigate changes in personal characteristics as managers moved through their careers.