Validation of a multiple-assessment procedure for managerial personnel.

Amultiple-assessment procedure—personal history form, intensive interview, 2 objective intellectual aptitude tests, a sentence-completion test, and a human relations problems test—was used to predict the performance of 31 industrial managers all having a similar job assignment. Predictions were made on the basis of a global, nonactuarial analysis of these objective and subjective data. 4 sets of criterion judgments were obtained on 4 variables—3 different sets of rankings and 1 set of ratings. A multitrait-multimethod matrix was used in the analysis of the intercorrelations. 9 of the 12 validity coefficients involving ranking-type criteria were statistically significant. Of the 4 coefficients involving rating-type criteria, none was significant. (18 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)