Use of Computer Simulation Modeling to Assess Utilities of Personnel Classification Decisions.
Abstract
Limitations to traditional approaches for assessing utilities of human resource interventions (e.g., selection procedures) are noted and computer simulation modeling (CSM) is described as a more general and flexible alternative. To establish the fidelity of CSM as an alternative to analytic utility models, results presented previously on a Time-to-Proficiency (Tn)) model were replicated using CSM in Study I. In Study II, a CSM of an interdependent four-job system was developed in order to evaluate tradeoffs in job outcome associated with alternative personnel classification policies. Results supported the ideas that (a) human resource interventions (e.g., implementation of a selection system) in one job cannot be reviewed in isolation independently of their effects on other interdependent jobs, and (b) system-wide, rather than individual-job payoffs, represent more appropriate optimization criteria for interdependent multiple-job systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADA303843
Entities
People
- Charles E. Lance
- Jeffrey Kuddisch
- Robert B. Stennett
- Robert T. Ladd