Implications for Assessment Centre 
Construct Validity

This presentation is a description of a typical Assessment Center procedure that has been used for selection and development purposes.  Most of the research on the assessment centre has focused on the validity issues.  The content and the criterion-related validity have been well established.  The research in the area of construct validity still continues.  The general conclusion is that within exercises the distinction between dimensions is blurred.  Researchers have attributed this to the procedural and design related factors.  More explanation has come from the way assessors evaluate a candidate in an assessment center.  Using models of social cognition, this presentation critically examines the dynamics that operate when observing and evaluating behavior.Manavi is a doctoral scholar at the XLRI , School of Management, which is one of India's premier Management Institutes. She is specializing in the area of Organizational Behavior. Her research interests include Assessment centers, Competency mapping, Personality Assessment, Selection and Recruitment. Her doctoral research is related to Validity issues in selection and assessment.

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Speaker

Manavi Pathak
Xavier's Research Institute, School of Management

Manavi is also a trained Clinical Psychologist (M.Phil) from NIMHANS (National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences), Bangalore which is India's apex institution in the field of Mental Health. After finishing her M.Phil from NIMHANS she has worked as a full time clinical psychologist for 3 years. She continues her interests in the field of Mental health along with her current doctoral studies.
Manavi has an excellent academic record. She majored in psychology in her post graduation and graduation from Delhi University.

Her M.Phil dissertation on " Psychological distress and quality of life in brain tumor patients" has been published in Indian Journal of Oncology and NIMHANS journal. 
Her working papers are:

  • Understanding the construct validity conundrum in Assessment centers.
    Impact of social information processing of assessors on assessment center results.
  • E-Recruitment : current trends and challenges.
  • Faking in personality assessment : how big is the problem ?

She has done various projects with companies like Philips, ITC, IBM Global services and TATA International.