B3 | The utility of personality assessment in personnel selection for aged care workers | Rapid research 20 mins
Tracks
Track B | Virtual
| Monday, July 4, 2022 |
| 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM |
| Virtual conference venue |
Overview
Virtual simulated +
Presenter
Dr Neil Kirby
The University of Adelaide
The utility of personality assessment in personnel selection for aged care workers
11:20 AM - 11:40 AMPromotional description
The results of the study suggest that a personality measure like the NEO-PI-3 can potentially improve the selection of appropriate aged care workers but that for any particular work situation, organisational psychologists are required to determine the nature of the relationships between aspects of personality and job performance criteria, for the establishment and optimal use of work place specific norms, and for relevant personality related interview questions.
Learning outcomes
The need for improved selection of aged care workers who are personally suited to working with aged residents provides an opportunity to use well established personality measures as part of the selection process. The fact that not all relationships between personality factors and work performance are linear also means that professional expertise, such as that of organisational psychologists, is needed to ensure the appropriate use of such measures for selection purposes. It also provides an opportunity for organisational psychologists to use their expertise to establish local norms for any particular organisation using personality measures to optimise the development of personality criteria for selection purposes. Relevant personality factors and low order facets can further improve the selection process by their use as a basis for interview questions that can be developed to investigate the particular relevance of individual personality scores to an aged care facility’s work requirements.
Author(s)
Kirby Neal; Harris Julia; Yan Wen
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Dr Neil Kirby is an Adjunct Senior Lecture and Director of the Wellbeing Research Unit in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide. His research interests include disability and organisational psychology. Recent research projects associated with the Wellbeing Research Unit and conducted in collaboration with Dr Julia Harries in this research unit include the evaluation of a social skills training program for children with autism and its application in a school setting, the evaluation of the quality of life of people with disabilities relocated from an institutional environment to community residential settings, and using a work safety climate measure to identify work safety issues of Disability Support Workers and evaluate the outcomes of implemented strategies to improve their work safety. Dr Kirby currently supervises Masters and PhD research theses in the areas of disability and organisational psychology. He has co-authored books on Organisational Psychology and Organisational Culture.
