The Federal Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to provide an update on a selected set of issues that might be considered if and when the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures is revised. The following issues that have been subject to a considerable number of research-based advances in the field of industrial and organizational psychology are discussed: (a) adverse impact, the four-fifths rule, and statistical significance testing; (b) criterion measures; (c) cutoff scores; and (d) differential prediction. In addition, implications for practice of research findings in each of these areas are discussed.