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All groups face difficulties in decision-making, some of the reasons for inadequate decision-making
are :
a b c

Fear of consequences : The Conflict of loyalties : To Interpersonal conflict : Which
responsibility falls heavily oneself to cliques or to may bring individuals in
,
on one s shoulders. the group as a whole. competition hostility, antipathy
or loyalty towards someone
else.

Lesson 10
Tests and their valuation

I shall now take you to a brief insight into group tests and their valuation.
Men and the jobs they perform differ from each other in many ways. As it is well known, the
efficiency of an organisation depends upon the effective utilisations of human resources, which can be
achieved only if the man and the job match each other. This matching of the attributes of the worker
with the equipment of the job is impossible without some kind of measurement or appraisal.
The effectivenss of manpower utilisation is gauged by considerations as :—

how much
personal
How well 1 2 satisfaction
people perform each individual
their job ? finds in
3 performance
of his job ?
and,
How much
satisfaction comes
to other people–seniors,
equals and juniors,
with whom he
works in the
organisation ?

Likewise, utility of the individual to the organisation will also be conditioned by his trainability,
potentiality, motivation and consistency in the performance of his job.
Tests which could be designed to find answers to such questions will contribute significantly to the
improvement of selection methods and therefore to the effectiveness of the organisation. Pyschological
testing aims to gather information which may provide answers to these questions.
In industry, the personality tests have helped in selection, classification and promotion. Tests can
be tailor-made for practically any job in industry. These tests will help in the placement of personnels
also. Despite all this progress, Psychological testing has certain limitations and has often invited
adverse criticism like over productivity, lack of comprehensive coverage, over-emphasis on test results,
invasion of privacy, high cost and low validity. The experts, are therefore, concerned in finding out
whether tests will actually help in making good and stable predictions of (on-the-job-behaviour) this
can be considered as the basic problem in the development of tests and testing procedures.