employee selection
career development initiatives
observation and assessment centers
The assessment center is a methodology used to select, promote, and develop people, usually managers, in an organization. From the earliest efforts in the 1930s and 1940s in the military, aimed at selecting officers and key operatives for highly sensitive missions, to the first systematic application in the organizational setting in the 1950s, the assessment center has become a familiar tool for skills evaluation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Assessment Center Methods]
assessment centers
staff development, training and evaluation
concepts
assessment areas and techniques