Perceptions of Mechanical Assessment by Employees and Managers

Dalen, J.W. van (2024) Perceptions of Mechanical Assessment by Employees and Managers. Master thesis, Psychology.

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Abstract

Creating mechanical employee selection practices to minimize performance prediction errors was a key achievement in organizational sciences, but their major failure is the inability to convince practitioners to use them. This study examines factors influencing the adoption of holistic versus mechanical employee selection procedures among HR employees and managers, by autonomy, competence, job satisfaction and use intentions. These constructs were measured by investigating employees’ own perceptions, metaperceptions of what managers think and metaperceptions of managers on how employees feel. For HR-employees, their competence satisfaction perceptions emerged as the most influential factor in explaining intentions to use both mechanical and holistic procedures. In contrast, HR-managers placed higher relative importance on job satisfaction metaperceptions to explain HR-employees' intentions to use mechanical procedures. Moreover, discrepancies in metaperceptions were found in mechanical conditions. HR-managers consistently overestimated HR employees' perceptions of autonomy, competence, and job satisfaction, while HR-employees overestimate HR-managers’ metaperceptions on autonomy and job satisfaction. These findings replicate prior research and also add to it: we focused on managers’ perspectives in addition to employees, and investigated job satisfaction needs to better understand the intentions to use either mechanical or holistic procedure. Implications and future research are also discussed. Keywords: HR-managers, HR-employees, metaperceptions, mechanical procedures, holistic procedures, autonomy, competence, job satisfaction, use intention

Item Type:	Thesis (Master)
Supervisor name:	Niessen, A.S.M.
Degree programme:	Psychology
Differentiation route:	Talent Development and Creativity (TDC) [Master Psychology]
Date Deposited:	16 Jul 2024 12:06
Last Modified:	16 Jul 2024 12:06
URI:	http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3925

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