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From the website:
"When screening candidates, there's really no substitute for the old-fashioned 'work sample' test — that is, watching the candidate do something."
--The American Management Association
This
apparent endorsement disturbs me on a few different levels.
First: While definitely not a fly-by-night organization, the American Management Association is also not the final/authoritative word on all things management-related. Let's just say that they're no Academy of Management.*
Second: It disturbs me that the AMA would make such an endorsement of a product or company. Bottom line, however, is this: I find it hard to believe they did. It seems to me like the company is taking a statement [which
may have been] made "by the AMA" out of context and is using it in a manner that could be considered misleading.
Third: As alluded to in the second/above item, I find it hard to believe the AMA made this statement in an "official capacity" (i.e. in a Position Statement or something similar). If you can get them to cite their source, I can have it vetted (and might possibly have time to do it myself - I mean, I
am surfing arfcom, after all).
I've not been on the board as much in recent months, but I'd like for DK-Prof to see/comment on this if I run across him. While I
am an academic in the field** with faculty appointment, he is the real/true scholar in the area and would almost certainly be the official "Arfcom Expert" in this area.
Best,
Jake.
* personal opinion only.
** "in the field" = arguably