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Why Situational Judgment Is a Missing Component in the Theory of SJTs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2016

Klaus G. Melchers  and
Martin Kleinmann
Klaus G. Melchers*
Affiliation:
Institut für Psychologie und Pädagogik, Universität Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Martin Kleinmann
Affiliation:
Psychologisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Klaus G. Melchers, Institut für Psychologie und Pädagogik, Universität Ulm, Abteilung Arbeits- & Organisationspsychologie, Albert-Einstein-Allee 41, D-89069 Ulm, Germany. E-mail: klaus.melchers@uni-ulm.de
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In their focal article, Lievens and Motowidlo (2016) consider procedural knowledge about effective actions in work situations as the key component of their theory of situational judgment tests (SJTs). In our commentary we want to suggest that situational judgment should nevertheless not be neglected in such a theory.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 29 - 34
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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