Review of Scientific personnel selection procedure: A study

Abstract

Reviews the book "Scientific personnel selection procedure: A study" by S. Jalota (see record 1951-05722-000 ). This little monograph describes the personnel selection procedures used by the Civil Selection Board and the Tata Iron and Steel Co. of India. Candidates for positions are evaluated by psychologists' judgments of fitness based principally upon intelligence tests and personality measures of various sorts. The reviewer states that the American psychologist will find little to interest him in this monograph either by way of methodology or results. Yet the style of writing has such charm and the author is so facile at turning a phrase that the reviewer could not help being intrigued. One can only hope that a writer with such pleasing expression will in the future have a message of some value to present. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)