Preface to the fourth edition -- Part I: Contemporary issues in applied psychology and personnel management -- 1. Organizations, work, and applied psychology -- 2. The law and personnel management -- Part II: Personnel decisions -- Strategy and outcomes -- 3. People, decisions, and the systems approach -- 4. Criteria: Concepts, measurement, and evaluation -- 5. Performance appraisal -- 6. Effect of attitudes and behavior on productivity, quality of work life, and labor-management cooperation -- Part III: Applied measurement concepts for personnel decisions -- 7. Measuring and interpreting individual differences -- 8. Validation and use of individual differences measures -- 9. Fairness in personnel decisions -- Part IV: Developing a foundation for personnel decisions -- 10. Job analysis -- 11. Human resource planning systems -- Part V: Attracting, selecting, and placing personnel -- 12. Recruitment and initial screening -- 13. Decision making for selection -- 14. Managerial selection -- 15. Classification and differential placement -- Part VI: Developing and rewarding personnel -- 16. Training and development: Considerations in design -- 17. Training and development: Implementation and the measurement of outcomes -- 18. Compensation and reward systems -- Part VII: Individuals and organizations -- Improving the psychological environment -- 19. Ethical issues in human resource development -- Appendixes -- A. Scientific and legal guidelines on employee selection procedures -- Checklists for compliance -- B. An overview of correlation and linear regression -- C. Decision trees for statistical methods -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.