Global Perspectives on the Definition, Assessment, and Reduction of Bias and Unfairness in Employment Testing

The use of tests and assessments in employment-related decision making has the potential to benefit organizations and individuals. However, their use is frequently criticized because of their adverse potential for bias and unfairness. Although issues pertaining to employment testing, bias, and unfairness are extensively researched and written about, previous work has predominately focused on perspectives from the United States. Therefore, the goal of this handbook is to provide a global examination of ideas and issues pertaining to bias and unfairness in employment testing. Specifically, this text details perspectives from twenty-three countries spanning six regions of the globe, on the definition, assessment, and reduction of bias and unfairness in employment testing. In doing so, this work fills a critical gap in the knowledge and information available to employment testing scholars and practitioners who conduct research and practice in an increasingly globalized world.

1. An introduction to, and summary of global perspectives from twenty-three countries on the definition, assessment, and reduction of bias and unfairness in employment testing; 2. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Australia; 3. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Belgium; 4. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Canada; 5. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in China; 6. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in France; 7. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Germany; 8. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Ghana; 9. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Greece; 10. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in India; 11. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Italy; 12. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Japan; 13. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Mexico; 14. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in the Netherlands; 15. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Nigeria; 16. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Poland; 17. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Romania; 18. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in South Africa; 19. How are bias and unfairness issues applied to emerging new predictors that make use of artificial intelligence and/or machine learning? ; 20. How have laws and the legal environment affected the practice of industrial, work, and organizational psychology? ; 19. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in South Korea; 20. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Spain; 21. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Sweden; 22. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in Turkiye; 23. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in the United Kingdom; 24. Twenty questions about employment testing bias and unfairness in the United States.