Assessment is a process of evaluation an individual’s potential on the basis of multiple assessment technique, standardized method of making inferences and comments about particular candidates by the assessor.
Assessment Centers Approach
The assessment center approach was first uses by German military psychologist during second world to select officers. Each candidate had to develop the cover story that would hide her or his identity during the assessment phase. In 1956 AT&T used this method for large-scale study of managerial progress and development. AT&T found that managerial skills and abilities are best means by the following procedures
- Administrative skill
- Interpersonal skill
- Intellectual ability
- Stability of performance
- Work oriented motivation
- Career orientation
- Dependency on others
The assessment center provides great opportunity to assessor to evaluate the performance of the individual through the system in the long run because these centers do design a system for a particular job and then they see the job related performance. This helps the management in deciding the promotion or selection of the persons for the particular jobs. These centers are not being used for the non-management jobs because the running of soldier’s establishment is itself a big management.