Cognitive Abilities and the Modern World of Work

Charles Scherbaum is a professor of industrial-organizational psychology at Baruch College, USA. He has received five major awards for his work designing innovative, valid, and fair assessments for use in employee selection and has served as an expert for the US Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Charles is co-author of Analysing Quantitative Data for Business and Management Students (2015). Harrison J. Kell is a principal scientist at the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO). His research focuses on conceptualizing and assessing psychological individual differences and predicting human performance. Harrison has published in outlets such as Psychological Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Journal of Applied Psychology. Harold Goldstein is a professor of industrial-organizational psychology at Baruch College, USA. He has received six major awards for his work designing innovative, valid and fair tests of intelligence, and developing the first league-wide comprehensive psychological assessment for the National Football League (NFL). Harold has also served as an expert for the US Department of Justice. Serena Wee is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on personnel selection and workplace diversity. Serena serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology and Intelligence and is a recipient of the Schmidt and Hunter Meta-Analysis Award from the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology. Tanja Bipp is a professor of industrial-organizational psychology in the Department of Psychology at Heidelberg University, Germany. Her research focuses on work design and how individual differences affect motivation and performance. Tanja currently serves as associate editor at the Journal of Personnel Psychology. Jonas Lang received his DPhil from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His research focuses conceptualizing cognitive abilities and statistical methods to test these conceptualizations. Jonas has published in outlets such as Personnel Psychology and Journal of Applied Psychology. Elliott Larson is a lecturer in industrial-organizational psychology at Baruch College, USA. He examines how to build fair, valid, and innovative employee selection systems. He is a multi-award-winning researcher specializing in test design, predictive validity, talent assessment, and workforce development. Elliott's work has been featured in various respected journals and books on recruitment and selection. Kenneth Yusko is Deputy Programme Director for the Industrial-Organizational Psychology Master's Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. His work focuses on designing and implementing innovative employee assessment and development systems with large-scale impact. Ken's efforts have been honored with six awards including the SHRM-SIOP HRM Impact, SIOP M. Scott Myers Applied Research, and International Personal Assessment Council Innovations awards.

• Series Editor's Foreword Neal Schmitt; 1. Cognitive ability and the modern work world; 2. History of cognitive abilities and their assessment in the workplace; 3. Traditional factor analytic models of cognitive ability; 4. Alternative factor analytic models of cognitive ability; 5. Non-factor analytic models of cognitive ability; 6. Cognitive theories of cognitive ability; 7. Neuroscience perspectives on cognitive abilities; 8. Integrative models of human abilities; 9. Measuring cognitive abilities for use in workplace decisions; 10. Technology and the measurement of cognitive abilities; 11. Challenges for advancing cognitive ability research and practice for the modern world of work; 12. Setting an agenda for advancing cognitive ability research and practice for the modern world of work.