Perspectives From Twenty-Two Countries on the Legal Environment for Selection
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2010
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203809808
Abstract
In the United States, the legal context plays a major role in how psychologists approach selection system development. Psychologists know well the set of protected groups, the approaches to making an a priori case of discrimination (e.g., differential treatment vs. adverse impact), the key court cases infl uencing selection, and the prohibitions against preferential treatment (e.g., the 1991 ban on score adjustment or within-group norming). Selection texts (e.g., Guion, 1998) and human resource management texts (e.g., Cascio & Aguinis, 2008) give prominent treatment to the legal context. In recent years, there has been a growing internationalization of industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology such that psychologists from all over the world work with clients in other countries and contribute to our journals and to our conferences. Test publishers and consulting fi rms establish offi ces all over the world. As this internationalization continues to increase, it becomes increasingly useful to take a broader look at the legal environment for selection, examining similarities and differences in various countries. For example consider a U.S fi rm with operations in several other countries. Although U. S. fair employment law applies only to those overseas employees who are U.S. citizens,
the employment by U.S. fi rms of host country nationals or third country nationals is subject to the legal environment of the host country.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Perspectives From Twenty-Two Countries on the Legal Environment for Selection, in J. L. Farr & N .T. Tippins (Eds.), Handbook of Employee Selection, Routledge, p. 651-676
Scholar Commons Citation
Sackett, P. R.; Shen, Winny; Myors, B.; Lievens, F.; Schollart, E.; and Van Hoye, G., "Perspectives From Twenty-Two Countries on the Legal Environment for Selection" (2010). Psychology Faculty Publications. 1923.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/1923
