Method of assessing political skill for personnel selection:Development and validation of a situational judgment test  

在选拔中评估政治技能的方法:测评开发与效度检验

作　　者：Qingxiong Weng Ying Zhao 翁清雄;赵颖(中国科学技术大学管理学院,安徽合肥230026)

机构地区：[1]School of Management,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China

出　　处：《中国科学技术大学学报》2024年第11期9-19,8,66,共13页JUSTC

基　　金：supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China(7191001010)。

摘　　要：Political skill is a critical interpersonal competency.However,the self-reported political skill scale is unsuitable for personnel selection beacuse it may lead to socially desirable responses,thereby compromising the authenticity of the test scores.Consequently,the absence of a valid assessment method limits the application of political skill in selection con-texts.In this study,we applied the situational judgment test(SJT)method to measure political skill and conducted two sub-studies to evaluate the reliability and validity of the situational judgment test of political skill(SJT-PS).Study 1 focused on the development and initial testing of the SJT-PS.The results demonstrated that the SJT-PS possessed strong structural validity and reliability.Study 2 aimed to assess the criterion-related and incremental validity of the SJT-PS.To evaluate the predictive validity of the SJT-PS in selection contexts,we first compared the correlations between the SJT-PS and self-reported political skill with social desirability.Subsequently,we selected team-member exchange(TMX)and workplace popularity as criteria.The results indicated that the SJT-PS was less affected by social desirability,while self-reported political skill exhibited a significant positive correlation with social desirability.Additionally,the SJT-PS positively pre-dicted TMX and workplace popularity and demonstrated incremental validity over the self-reported political skill scale.政治技能是一项重要的人际交往能力,但目前实证研究中普遍使用的政治技能自评量表不适用于真实选拔场景中对个体政治技能的评估,因为其会导致候选人的社会称许性反应,降低测验分数的真实性。因此,有效评估方法的缺乏限制了政治技能在选拔中的应用。本文基于情景判断测验技术开发了一项适用于人员选拔的政治技能测评,并通过两个子研究检验了其信度和效度。研究一参考以往研究中的情景判断测验开发流程编制了一项政治技能情景化测评工具,并通过预实验进行验证性因子分析和信度检验,结果表明该测评具有良好的结构效度和信度。为进一步检验所开发政治技能情景化测评工具在选拔中的预测效度,研究二比较了政治技能情景判断测验得分和政治技能自评得分与社会称许性的关系,并选择团队-成员交换关系和职场受欢迎程度作为效标,检验所开发测评工具的效标关联效度和增量效度。结果表明,政治技能情景判断测验得分与社会称许性相关性很低,而政治技能自评得分与社会称许性显著正相关。此外,政治技能情景判断测验得分能够正向预测个体与团队-成员之间的交换关系及其在职场中的受欢迎程度,并且在控制政治技能自评得分后对二者均有增值解释作用。

关 键 词：political skill situational judgment test self-reported measurement team-member exchange workplace popularity 

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