Assessment Centres and Global Talent Management (Paperback, 1)

Part I: AC Best Practice; Chapter 1: Three Themes that Explain Our Passion for Assessment Centres as Tools for Talent Management; Chapter 2: We're Doing Better than You Might Think: A Large-Scale Demonstration of Assessment Centre Convergent and Discriminant Validity; Chapter 3: An Alternative Take on AC Research and Practice: Task-Based Assessment Centers 1; Chapter 4: Adjusting Exercise Design in Assessment Centers: Theory, Practice, and Research; Chapter 5: Fit For Purpose? Considerations when using ?€?Off-the-shelf' versus ?€?Customized' Simulation Exercises; Chapter 6: Using Computer-Based Simulation Technology within an ADC: A South African Case Study; Chapter 7: Integrating Candidate Data: Consensus or Arithmetic?; Chapter 8: The Impact of ACs and DCs on Candidates; Chapter 9: Whiter than White? The Diversity Credentials of Assessment and Development Centres; Chapter 10: The Assessment of Managers: A Review and Integration of Assessment Center and Multisource Performance Rating Research and Practice; Chapter 11: Fifty Years On: The Ongoing Reciprocal Impact of Science and Practice on the Assessment Center Method; Part II: Corporate Strategy and Talent Management; Chapter 12: Building a Talent for Talent; Chapter 13: The Challenges Associated with a Large AC inGovernment: A South African Case Study; Chapter 14: Using Assessment Centres to Facilitate Collaborative, Quasi-Standardized, Industry-Wide Selection: Lessons Learned from Medical Specialty Placement in England and Wales; Chapter 15: Certifying Competencies of HR Managers with the Assessment Centre Method: Quality Assurance that HR Contributes to Corporate Objectives; Chapter 16: Pioneering Assessment Centers within Local Government in Sweden: Gothenburg's Search for Better Leaders; Chapter 17: In Pursuit of a Diversification Strategy: Using an Assessment Centre to Identify Global Talent; Chapter 18: Integrating a Developmental Assessment Centre with other Human Resource Interventions; Chapter 19: The Evolution of an Assessment Center Program in a Pharmaceutical Sales Organization over a 15-Year Period; Chapter 20: Influencing Decisions About Assessment and Development Centres for Talent Management; Chapter 21: Failure and Success Factors in Assessment Centers: Attaining Sustainability; Part III: International Issues and Implications; Chapter 22: A Review of Recent International Surveys into Assessment Centre Practices; Chapter 23: Assessment Center Practices in South Africa, Western Europe, and North America; Chapter 24: Assessment Center Adaptation and Implementation in Indonesia; Chapter 25: Variations in Assessment Centers in South Korea's Public Service; Chapter 26: The Contribution of Assessment Centres to the Selection and Development of Future Leaders in the Singapore Public Service; Chapter 27: Eating the Elephant: Tackling the Challenges of Introducing Assessment and Development Centres in East Africa; Chapter 28: The Application of the Assessment Center Method in China; Chapter 29: The Use of Assessment and Development Centres in Russia; Chapter 30: Assessment Center Practices in Japan: A Brief History and Challenges 1; Chapter 31: Assessment Centers in Israel: Some Practices and Perspectives; Chapter 32: Assessment Centers in Organizational and Cultural Contexts: Evidence of the Versatility of a Proven Human Resource Intervention