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Paul Wood: Doctorate Research Overview

The purpose of Paul's doctorate was to increase knowledge relevant to psychometrically oriented workplace selection and classification. It focused upon three broad research objectives:

  • exploring relationships among common predictors of performance
  • the potential to increase hiring ratios for Māori
  • whether information on length of time taken to answer psychometric questions could be used to clarify relationships between personality and ability, or as a parameter for assessment scoring.

Exploration of these three research objectives intended to increase knowledge relevant to psychometrically oriented workplace selection and classification. The first objective explored relationships among conscientiousness, neuroticism, the tendency to engage in counterproductive workplace behaviours, and cognitive ability. The second examined differences between average test scores for Māori and non-Māori. The third explored the use of response time information to increase the accuracy of psychometric predictions and to clarify relationships between performance predictors. Outcomes suggested that relationships among scales are likely to vary according to the level of analyses undertaken and whose version of a scale is examined. They also indicated that hiring ratios for Māori could be increased through combining assessments in recruitment, which could in-turn increase compliance with obligations under the State Sector Act and Treaty of Waitangi. Finally, the results suggested that rather than using response time information to adjust respondents' scores, this information is probably better suited to controlling and checking their approach to answering assessments. Response time information also indicated that negative relationships between conscientiousness and cognitive ability are not a result of more conscientious individuals taking longer to answer questions.

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