Adverse impact : implications for organizational staffing and high stakes selection / edited by James L. Outtz.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sect. 1. Background -- 1. Adverse Impact: History and Evolution / Sheldon Zedeck -- 2. An Analysis of Two Methods for Assessing and Indexing Adverse Impact-and a Disconnect Between the Academic Literature and Some Practice / Philip Bobko and Phillip L. Roth -- Sect. 2. Theoretical Perspectives -- 3. A Theory of Adverse Impact / James L. Outtz and Daniel A. Newman -- 4. Revisiting: Intelligence, Adverse Impact, and Personnel Selection / Harold W. Goldstein, Charles A. Scherbaum and Kenneth P. Yusko -- Sect. 3. Adverse Impact and Traditional Selection Theory -- 5. How a Broader Definition of the Criterion Domain Changes Our Thinking about Adverse Impact / Kevin R. Murphy -- 6. What Are the Criteria for Adverse Impact? / Keith Hattrup and Brandon G. Roberts -- Sect. 4. Facets of the Adverse Impact Problem -- 7. Adverse Impact in Employee Selection Procedures from the Perspective of an Organizational Consultant / Nancy T. Tippins -- 8. Performance Ratings: Then and Now / Frank Landy -- 9. Perspectives on Adverse Impact in Work Performance: What We Know and What We Could Learn More About / Patrick F. McKay -- 10. Validity, Utility, and Adverse Impact: Practical Implications from 30 Years of Data / Wayne F. Cascio, Rick Jacobs and Jay Silva -- 11. Cut Scores and Adverse Impact / Jerard F. Kehoe -- 12. Subgroup Differences on Cognitive Tests in Contexts Other Than Personnel Selection / Paul R. Sackett and Winny Shen -- Sect. 5. Adverse Impact from an International Perspective -- 13. International Perspectives on Adverse Impact: Europe and Beyond / Paul J. Hanges and Emily G. Feinberg -- 14. Adverse Impact in South Africa / Hennie Kriek and Kim Dowdeswell -- Sect. VI. Methods of Reducing Adverse Impact -- 15. Balancing Adverse Impact, Selection Errors, and Employee Performance in the Presence of Test Bias / Herman Aguinis and Marlene A. Smith -- 16. Reductions in Measured Subgroup Mean Differences: What is Possible? / Neal Schmitt and Abigail Quinn -- 17. Decision Aids for Addressing the Validity-Adverse Impact Tradeoff / Paul R. Sackett, Wilfried De Corte and Filip Lievens -- 18. A Five Year Journey with Coca-Cola / Irwin L. Goldstein and Kathleen L. Lundquist -- 19. Conclusions.