Peer nomiations as a predictor of multistage promotions in a ramified organization

Yehuda Amir; Yacov Kovarsky; Shlomo Sharan

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Peer nomiations as a predictor of multistage promotions in a ramified organization

Yehuda Amir^*, Yacov Kovarsky, Shlomo Sharan

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The Seymour Fox School of Education

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Studied the validity of peer nominations (PNs) as a predictor of advancement in rank in the Israel Defense Forces on a population of 125 platoons encompassing 3897 soldiers. Results indicate that PNs obtained at early stages of training predicted promotion at several successive stages in the soldier's military career with a high degree of validity and correlations generally around .6 and .7. Predictions were valid for success within groups of different personnel, and with different purposes, and criteria for achievement. PNs were also found to contribute markedly to the predictive validity of conventional psychological screening measures, suggesting the value of combining psychometric and sociometric procedures for personnel selection. (16 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	462-469
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Applied Psychology
Volume	54
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/h0029919
State	Published - Oct 1970

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rank advancement prediction, validity of peer nominations, Israel Defense Forces

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