Appraisal of Assessment Centre as Management Tool for Personnel Selection

Abstract

Human resource is an evolving field in organizations’ management and administration. Thus the possibility of innovation and creativity cannot be overestimated for the purpose of avoiding being outdated or suffer entropy. One of the innovative and creative efforts towards effective, efficient and continuous relevance of management which are the basic features of any purpose-driven and result – oriented organization, is the utilization of assessment centre as a managerial too for personnel selection. This paper made use of secondary sources of data to examine the tool, its main features, variation and how it can be effectively utilized as a managerial tool. In conclusion, selection tools and their inclusions in what is known as assessment centre is a testimony that assessment centre is “all in one. It recommends that there is need to design a clear and concise competency framework to guide assessors on what they are assessing.