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Rethinking Interviewing and Personnel Selection

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 1-6
  3. What Selection Theory Claims

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 7-19
  4. Who Knows for a Fact?

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 21-33
  5. Yet How Do We Know?

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 35-48
  6. What’s the Logic?

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 49-58
  7. Where’s the Proof?

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 59-66
  8. Why Dismiss Intuition?

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 67-79
  9. Interviewing and Psychological Contract

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 81-89
  10. Tacit Knowledge and Implicit Learning

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 91-99
  11. Rethinking Selection Theory

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 101-113
  12. What Managers Have in Mind

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 115-136
  13. Power and Panel Interviewing

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 137-150
  14. So Where Now?

    • Teresa Carla Oliveira
    Pages 151-160
  15. Back Matter

    Pages 161-198

About this book

 The case studies in Rethinking Interviewing and Personnel Selection find support for Herriot (1993, 2003) and Fletcher's (1997, 2003) claims that the selection interview is a social process which may gain from a degree of semi-structured interaction with candidates.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Coimbra, Portugal

    Teresa Carla Oliveira

About the author

Teresa Carla Oliveira is director of the Coimbra Centre for Innovative Management and a member of the Centre for Health Studies and Research in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra where she teaches and directs programmes in organisational psychology and management. After qualifying for university in science she took her undergraduate degree in psychology and a master's in educational psychology at Coimbra, before gaining a doctorate in organisational psychology at the University of London. She has researched in the areas of leadership, human resource management, psychological contract and performance management. She currently is addressing such issues in research on the scope and limits of government reforms of health services and of the judiciary, as well as in management of small and medium enterprise.

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