Repertory Grid Technique in Employee Selection

Introduction: Trends in Employee Selection Significant developments in techniques and methods of employee selection have been reported over the last decade[l,2,3]. Despite these advances, the evidence is that organisations remain reluctant to change fundamentally their employee recruitment procedures. Indeed, successive large-scale surveys spanning almost 20 years reveal few changes in organisational selection procedures[4,5,6,7]. The less valid interview and reference letters remain ubiquitous, whereas the more valid techniques of biodata, cognitive ability testing, and assessment centres are being used by comparatively few organisations in this country. These findings prompted Robertson and Makin[6,p.56] pithily to conclude that regardless of: