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INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES THAT INFLUENCE ERFORMANCE AND EFFECTIVENESS What Should We Assess? Kevin R. Murphy Handbook of Workplace Assessment Evidence-Based Practices for Selecting and Developing Organizational Talent John C. Scott Douglas H. Reynolds, Editors Foreword by Allan H. Church and Janine Waclawski Assessment in organizations can be carried out for a variety of purposes, many with high stakes for both individuals and organizations.The stakes can be particularly high when assessments are used to make decisions about personnel selection and placement or about advancement and development of individuals once they have been hired. If assessments focus on traits, attributes, or outcomes that are not relevant to success and effectiveness, both organizations and individuals may end up making poor decisions about the fit between people and jobs. If assessments are appropriately focused but poorly executed (perhaps the right attributes are measured, but they

Blackberry has announced it is planning to cut 4,500 jobs, or 40% of its worldwide workforce, in an attempt to staunch huge losses. The smartphone maker said it anticipated a loss of as much as $995m (£621m) when it reports its second-quarter earnings next week. Shares in the firm closed down 17% after briefly being halted following the announcement. In August, the Canadian company said it was evaluating a possible sale. In a statement on Friday, Blackberry's chief executive Thorstein Heins said: "We are implementing the difficult, but necessary operational changes announced today to address our position in a maturing and more competitive industry, and to drive the company toward profitability." "Going forward, we plan to refocus our offering on our end-to-end solution of hardware, software and services for enterprises and the productive, professional end user." 'Off a cliff' The company sai

I expected to dislike the operating system, or at least come away with proof that iOS is definitively better. But after just a month of using Android part-time, I fell in love it. Here’s why. http:www.techlicious.com/review/8-reasons-you-should-consider-switching-to-android/#ixzz2fYPYob9P

Apple is never going to be a company that makes a phone for everybody. But with the iPhone 5s and 5c, Apple is finally offering new models for two different types of somebody. For all the ways in which the world of technology changes at a breakneck pace, there are plenty of respects in which it hardly seems to change at all. Here’s one: There’s never a shortage of people who are absolutely positive that Apple must do something right away — usually involving adding a feature or hitting a price point — to avoid being rendered irrelevant by the rest of the industry. Here’s another: Apple seems to take active pleasure in ignoring those people. While it sometimes does stuff in the general ballpark of addressing the competitive issues at hand, it does so on its own timetable, and usually not in the exact fashion the chorus of experts insists is absolutely necessary. Long ago, the theory emerged that Apple needed to offer not an iPhone but iPhones — multiple models, includi