Abstract
Pre-employment personality testing has become widely used across a variety of work settings. A relatively new area where pre-employment personality testing is being implemented is in the field of community-based corrections (CBCs). One instrument being used in CBCs for this purpose is the Critical Hire-Personality Assessment (CH-PA). Federal laws and hiring guidelines have been enacted that impact the use of pre-employment personality assessments such as the CH-PA. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, for example, prohibit employment discrimination based on gender, age, and racial/ethnic status. The present study examines if the CH-PA complies with federal laws and guidelines regarding employee selections by examining the degree to which the CH-PA scale and subscale scores differ based on CBC officer gender, age, and racial/ethnic status. Results revealed that the CH-PA scales and subscales do not differ in a manner that would significantly contribute to a disparate or adverse impact based on CBC officer applicant gender, age, and racial/ethnic status. Implications of these findings for CBC agencies are discussed.
Highlights
The practice of evaluating personality traits during the pre-employment hiring process has become widely used across a variety of work settings (Ones et al, 2007)
The present study examines if the Critical Hire-Personality Assessment (CH-PA) complies with federal laws and guidelines regarding employee selections by examining the degree to which the CH-PA scale and subscale scores differ based on community-based corrections (CBCs) officer gender, age, and racial/ethnic status
This study measured the degree to which the CH-PA may contribute to an adverse impact on a sample of CBC officer applicants based on gender, age, and racial/ethnic status
Summary
The practice of evaluating personality traits during the pre-employment hiring process has become widely used across a variety of work settings (Ones et al, 2007). CBCs, or otherwise referred to as departments of probation or parole, provide supervision and rehabilitative services to individuals on pretrial release, work release, probation, and parole. Individuals providing services to these individuals include probation and parole officers, residential officers, and treatment providers. This group of providers will be collectively referred to throughout the rest of this paper as CBC officers. Pre-employment personality tests have been identified as helping CBCs identify traits associated with CBC officer job performance in this unique and demanding profession (Tatman, 2019b; Tatman, 2021)
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