Just a Fuss About Nothing? Applying the Lessons of Interactionism to The Exercise Effect
Recently,
several papers have appeared that refer to the interactionist
perspective from personality studies and how this might explain the
‘exercise effect’. Briefly put, the argument is that the ‘exercise
effect’ is not so much indicative of a problem with assessment centres
as an accurate reflection of how people vary in their performance
between exercises. The session will examine the lessons from the
original interactionist debate and see how well they map onto and
‘solve’ the issue of the exercise effect in assessment centres. The
session will include consideration of whether people vary across
situations at work as much as they appear to vary across exercises at
assessment centres. It will also consider the implications for
assessment centres of the finding from personality studies that some
people vary more than others.
Speaker
Charles Woodruffe
Human Assets Limited
Dr. Charles Woodruffe is Managing Director of Human Assets Limited and has been an expert practitioner in the area of assessment centres for the past 20 years. He is author of Development and assessment centres: identifying and developing competence, the first three editions of which were published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Charles also carried out research for his PhD (awarded 1978) on the situational variability of personality which gave him an expertise in interactionism. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.