The Impact of Job Complexity and Study Design on Situational and Behavior Description Interview Validity

• Published in: International journal of selection and assessment Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 262 - 273
• Main Authors: Huffcutt, Allen I., Conway, James M., Roth, Philip L., Klehe, Ute-Christine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing 01.09.2004; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Behavior; Impact analysis; Interviews; Job analysis; Research methodology; Studies; Validity

The primary purpose of this investigation was to test two key characteristics hypothesized to influence the validity of situational (SI) and behavior description (BDI) structured interviews. A meta‐analysis of 54 studies with a total sample size of 5536 suggested that job complexity influences the v...