Government Assessment Centers Around the World
In this session, assessment center experts from
China,
Canada,
South Korea,
South Africa, and the United States
will describe their national contexts, especially focusing on aspects of the culture or public sector that make the
facilitation of public sector assessment centers in their country
particularly unique. They will then describe how they have adapted
AC practices to meet these special challenges.
Moderator
Deborah Rupp, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Deborah
E. Rupp, Ph.D., holds faculty positions in both the
Institute
of
Labor
and Industrial Relations and the Department of Psychology at the
University
of
Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational
Psychology from
Colorado
State
University
. Rupp conducts research on the use of developmental assessment centers,
and is the director of the Laboratory for the Study of Developmental
Assessment Centers (DACLab), a multinational and multidisciplinary group
of researchers and practitioners conducting many projects in this area.
She is the co-authored the new edition of Assessment Centers in Human
Resource Management with George C. Thornton, and was the first ever
recipient of the Douglas W. Bray and Ann Howard Award (for research on
leadership assessment and development), Rupp also conducts research in
the areas of organizational justice and workplace bias. Her work has
appeared in outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of
Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational
Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Vocational Behavior,
Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management, Research in
Multilevel Issues, and the Psychologist Manager Journal. Her
research is supported by funding from the SIOP Foundation, the State
Farm Companies Foundation, the Korean Psychological Testing Institute,
the Center for Human Resource Management, and the Center for
International Business Education and Research. Rupp serves on the
editorial boards of Journal of Management and Organizational Behavior
and Human Decision Processes, and has consulted for groups such as
the State University Civil Service System, the Korean Civil Service
Commission, the SK Corporation, Virginia Department of Corrections, Sun
Microsystems, Colorado Department of Human Services, CIB Marine
Bancshares, Rockwell Automation and Solutia (formerly Monsanto).
Participants
Anne Buckett, MCom, South Africa
Kaiguang (Carl) Liang, Ph.D., Shanghai
Bernard Nickels, Ph.D., United States
Myungjoon (Marco) Kim, Korea
Diana Hartel, Canada
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of Buckett Presentation
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of Liang Presentation
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of Kim Presentation
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of Nickels Presentation
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of Hartel Presentation
