A RESEARCH ON PSYCHOTECHNICAL TESTS USED IN HUMAN RESOURCES PRACTICES

Abstract

Psychotechnical tests are used in many areas such as the recruitment of employees, their placement in the appropriate job, and the evaluation of their performance in human resources practices. And with the use of these tests, it helps organizations to employ the right people for the job and to increase the performance of their employees and therefore organizations. One of the most used methods in psychotechnical evaluation is the Vienna Test System (VTS). Determination Test (DT) and Cognitrone Test (COG), two of the most used tests in VTS, were used as measurement tools in this study. While the COG test fundamentally measures attention, DT measures the speed and quality of response to stimuli. The aim of this study is to determine the success of the employees in the COG and DT, according to their educational status and age, and to determine whether there is a difference between them. For this purpose, tests were applied to 3222 blue-collar employees working in Kocaeli and Istanbul in Türkiye. According to the results obtained, as the education level of the employees increases, their success in these tests increases, and as their age increases, their success decreases. In line with these results, some suggestions were presented to managers and researchers.