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"Evaluate the uses and limitations of psychometric assessment tests and questionnaires for organisational decision-making".
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"Evaluate the uses and limitations of psychometric assessment tests and questionnaires for organisational decision-making". Through Psychometric tests, one can attempt to achieve a measurement of the mind. Measuring the mind from an organisational perspective is potentially very rewarding. As, in theory, having "measured" someone's mind we can find a job or task that best suits their mindset. Psychometrics and their conception began towards the end of the nineteenth century, with the first test being published in 1905. One of the earliest applications of such a test was by the American Armed forces during the First World War. They were used to determine the skills of many new recruits quickly to decide which military unit to assign them to. Early on, several psychological associations, such as the British, National Institute of Industrial Psychology (NIIP) set out the general ways that tests should be used. Tests slowly began to be...
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