Appl 644 Personnel Psychology

Two class Projects:

1. Job Analysis (Team Project)

2. Criteria for Performance Appraisal (Individual Project which requires SPSS data analysis)

Team members will choose a job which they will (1) analyze, and for which they will develop (2) a performance appraisal for, (3) an applicant selection procedure, and (4) a program for training and development. Each project will incorporate the relevant course material to ensure that it is completed in a manner consistent with expectations of a professional consultant.

Projects:

1. Job Analysis (Team Project - does NOT require data analysis) 

Assignment: each team will

1. Choose a team leader who will adopt a participatory leadership decision-making strategy to accomplish the mission (conduct JA)

2. Identify a team Facilitator who will keep the team on task and ensure timelines are met

3. Identify a job O*Net for which to conduct a job analysis

4. Assign specific tasks to each team member

5. Assign JA Report writing tasks for sections of the report (APA style) -all must play a role in writing

6. Assign an editor to ensure the finished project is of professional quality

7. Identify a person who holds the job title to act as an SME

a. Conduct an JA interview with the worker

8. Each team member will serve as an SME (having become familiar with the O*Net job description)

9. Submit a final report to the instructor (that would be me) in the SAKAI JA Report Assignment folder by the due date

10. Develop and present the findings in a PPT Executive report to the class (about a five minute presentation)

2. Performance Appraisal (requires SPSS data analysis)

Each student will be provided with a Performance Appraisal SPSS data set to analyze. You will include the results and findings in a PA Report to management.

The SPSS.sav file can be found in your SAKAI:

Assignment folder: PA Project files.

Other files needed for the project can be found in the SAKAI:

Files Directory: PA files

Issues to consider:

1. Role of PA in Performance management
2. Conflicting Dual purposes of PA (administration and development)
3. Focus on behavior and/or results
4. Measurement issues: objective v. subjective, rating freq or evaluations, 
5. Perceived fairness (procedural & distributive justice)
6. Role of feedback in performance management  
7. Aggregating (items, dimensions, overall)
8. Multi-rater issues
9. Explain reasons for choice of demographic (employee attributes)
10. Explain reasons for choice of Organizational groups (jobs, depts, geo, etc.)
11. Explain use of Criteria: subjective and objective (reliability/validity)
12. Construct SPSS data structure (var names, var labels, value labels)
13.  Analyze SPSS data and report result/findings
14. Submit report to the instructor (that would be me) in the SAKAI Assignment folder