اتجاهات المتقدمين للعمل في دولة الكويت نحو أدوات الاختيار الوظيفي

Abstract EN

The study examines applicant’s attitudes towards popular job selection methods in Kuwait.

The sample includes (110) job applicants from the Civil Service Bureau and the Restructuring Program in Kuwait.

The measures of tool fairness and organizational attractiveness were applied to determine the attitudes of applicants towards (6) selection tools: interview, resumes, work-sample tests, personal recommendations, written ability tests and personality tests.

The study aimed at: identifying the attitudes of applicants towards the preferred and fairness of each tool, in terms of preference and fairness of each tool, differences between applicants according to gender, and correlation between the organizational attractiveness and the prefered tools.

The study found the most preferred tools in the total sample is the interview and the lowest is personal preferences, with significant differences between males and females in favor of personal preferences only without the rest of the tools, with a difference in the order of preference of tools by sex.

As for the fairness of the tools, the results of the sample showed that the fairest is the interview and the least is personal preferences, with a difference in the order of tool fairness between the sexes, although there are no significant differences between the sexes in the fairness of tools.

The results also showed in a positive correlation between both organizational attractiveness and interview in favor and justice without the rest of the selection tools.