12 Nov 2012

Job Performance
lower-levelCross-cultural job performance has become a critical factor in today’s globalised workplace, where employees often interact with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders from diverse cultural backgrounds. Understanding cross-cultural job performance involves examining how cultural differences impact communication, teamwork, leadership, and productivity. The Australian work con...

12 Nov 2012

Research
A meta-analysis conducted in the United Kingdom (Bertua, Anderson & Salgado, 2005) has found that intelligence tests and tests of  specific cognitive abilities are strong, reliable and valid predictors of both job performance  and response to training.  Operational validities are in the range of .5-.6, meaning that these  cognitive tests can account for approximately 30% of the varia...