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Screening Workers An Examination and Analysis of Practice and Public Policy
Greenfield, Patricia A.; Karren, Ronald J.; Zacharias, Lawrence S.
1989 Employee Relations: An International Journal
doi: 10.1108/01425458910134012
Every employer, unless he or she has no pool of applicants orpotential applicants to choose from, engages in hiring choices. Whilethe hiring process may vary, both from one employer to another and fromone job to another, some form of screening occurs. In recent years,students of management have noted the proliferation of screeningpractices in the hiring process, especially in bringing new technologiessuch as medical and drug testing procedures. Testing and other screeningpractices, while wideranging both with respect to their ends and means,have raised consistent patterns of concern among jobseekers, publicpolicy makers and managers themselves. In this monograph a variety ofmethods of screening and issues of public policy raised by screeningprocedures are discussed. An overview of United States law regulatingthe screening process is provided, together with future directions inthe area of screening in the US.