Chequeos de referencias, habilidad mental general y experiencia: Un estudio de validez de constructo

• Autores: Mario Antonio Lado Campelo
• Localización: Revista de psicología del trabajo y de las organizaciones = Journal of work and organizational psychology, ISSN 1576-5962, Vol. 28, Nº 2, 2012, págs. 119-131
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.5093/tr2012a10
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Reference Checks, General Mental Ability, and Experience: A Study of Construct Validity
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  • español

    El término �referencias� hace alusión a la información sobre ciertas características personales relacionadas con el comportamiento laboral de una persona y que otra persona (normalmente un jefe directo) aporta sobre la primera. Las referencias se basan en el supuesto de que �el mejor modo de averiguar algo sobre alguien es preguntándole a alguien que lo conozca� y son un método ampliamente utilizado y potencialmente eficaz para la selección de personal. El objetivo general de este artículo es responder a la siguiente pregunta: ¿qué miden realmente las referencias? Para ello se han recogido los estudios primarios existentes en la literatura sobre esta materia y se han aplicado diversas técnicas meta-analíticas. Los resultados indican que las referencias miden principalmente Habilidad Mental General y Experiencia.

    Asimismo, se hacen sugerencias de estudio para averiguar otros constructos que pudieran estar integrados en las referencias

  • English

    Reference check is a term that reports information about personal characteristics related to job performance of one person and that another person (usually a supervisor) provide about the first.

    References are based on the assumption that �the best way to find out about someone is to ask someone who knows� and they are widely used and potentially effective for personnel selection. The main objective of this paper is to answer the following question: what do the references actually measure? There have been collected the primary studies in the literature on this subject and two meta-analyses were conducted.

    The results indicate that reference check measure General Mental Ability and Experience. Suggestions for research to find other constructs that could be integrated in the references are provided

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