A tale of two formats: Direct comparison of matching situational and behavior description interview questions

Enhancing Personality Assessment in the Selection Context: A Study Protocol on Alternative Measures and an Extended Bandwidth of Criteria

“…A relevant limitation of this study is that participants will not be actual applicants. Thus, it might be that effects are not generalizable to a real selection setting (Culbertson et al, 2017 ; Powell et al, 2018 ). For example, participants in this study might feel less nervous compared to a real selection setting, because they are not applying for a real job.…”

“…SJTs and BDIs could be used as alternative or complementary measurement methods to help overcome the limitations of personality measurement in personnel selection. SJTs and BDIs are established instruments in personnel selection and have been shown to predict job performance (Christian et al, 2010 ; Culbertson et al, 2017 ). Both measurement methods provide a precise frame-of-reference and thus have a high contextualization.…”

“…Responses are rated on behaviorally anchored rating scales (Klehe and Latham, 2006 ). BDIs are a popular method in personnel selection and can predict performance across different domains (Culbertson et al, 2017 ). BDIs have three advantages over SJTs.…”

Potential Applications of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to Organizational Research: A Primer and Sample Study

“…However, a recent meta-analysis found a mean correlation of only .47 between SI and BDI questions that were carefully developed to assess the same job attributes and written from the same base of critical incidents (a within-study design), and this was after correction for measurement error in the interviews (Culbertson, Weyhrauch, & Huffcutt, 2017). Their lack of strong correspondence is surprising because there appears to be an implicit assumption in both the literature and professional practice that the two types of questions are, for the most part, interchangeable.…”

decision-making process inherent with hiring career counselors who advise international students

“…Like Bangerter et al, (2014), Culbertson et al, (2017) argue that responses to questions specifically focused on past behaviors can be misleading based on the candidate's storytelling skills. While the participants in this study did not reveal concerns about a candidate's storytelling skills and ability to answers behavioral and scenario-based questions, this study furthers research by scholars such as Bangerter et al, (2014) and Culbertson et al, (2017) as it relates to the value of these types of interviewing questions through rich narrative description and question examples provided by participants.…”