Introduction to the Special Issue: Role of General Mental Ability in Industrial, Work, and Organizational Psychology

A reply to commentaries on “Revisiting the design of selection systems in light of new findings regarding the validity of widely used predictors”

“…In contrast, Ones and Viswesvaran (2023) assert that empirical work shows comparable observed validity for cognitive tests in predictive and current studies, from which one can infer that comparable degrees of range restriction are present in both. There are some issues with this conclusion.…”

“…Ones and Viswesvaran (2023) cite Hartigan and Wigdor (1989), among others, in support of their position of predictive and concurrent studies producing comparable observed validity. Hartigan and Wigdor analyzed GATB data, and in that dataset all studies did not use the GATB for selection.…”

“…Fourth, they offer a critique also expressed by Ones and Viswesvaran (2023), namely, that if the cognitive demands of jobs are increasing, how can the validity of cognitive ability be decreasing? Apart from potential increases in the cognitive demands of jobs, jobs are also changing on dimensions other than their cognitive demands, with increased demands for interpersonal and teamwork skills as one key example.…”

“…Ones and Viswesvaran (2023) offer a particularly strong critique. They, along with Oh et al (2023), challenge our starting observation, namely, that range restriction correction factors derived from applicant-based predictive studies cannot be assumed to also apply to incumbent-based concurrent studies.…”

An Emerging New Component of Cognitive Abilities in Human Resources Selection: Preliminary evidence to the existence of a ‘process‐analytic’ factor in selection batteries

“…Such categories are also especially popular in the field of human resources (HR) selection, in individual psychological assessment as well as assessment centers, etc. (Landy & Shankster, 1994;Carretta & Ree, 2000;Gottfredson, 2002;Ones & Viswesvaran, 2002). This paper suggests that the traditional, hierarchical structure of intelligence or more precisely -its factors may have changed at least in certain current HR selection settings.…”