hi I'm Angelo Kinicki the purpose of this
video is to talk to you about how we use
self assessments in the Kinicki Fugate
OB product well first off let me tell
you we have 58 of them which is much
larger than most other products out
there why did we include them really
that's simple is because we wanted to
create interest to the students and give
them some information that they would
personally find valuable and one more
thing I can tell you from the
Millennials that I'm teaching they love
to get feedback so we want to the
students to get feedback about OB
related topics that they'll find
interesting and valuable where do they
come from all of our self assessments
are researched based what that means is
when we were looking for particular ones
we would go into the research literature
and find one that was used and or had
been validated so they these are not ad
hoc instruments they're all things that
are published in the literature the topics
for our assessments of course when we
would write a particular chapter we
would have a concept or a topic in mind
if we could find an assessment for it we
would use it in other cases for
particular topics because we are using
research based assessments we might not
always find what we would prefer but we
would find an assessment related to the
topic that had some evidence to support
its validity now the key thing to me
about using assessments or having them
in books is not that we have them I
think just about every OB book has them
I think the differentiator is how
they're integrated so let me tell you
how other books do this integration and
by integration I mean how is the
assessment woven into or used by the
student when they're reading the books
now most books what they do is they
might have an assessment at the end of
the chapter other publishers they have a
depository if you will where they have a
big list of assessments and students go
to it one of the big OB books does
something like this they put an
assessment in the front of the chapter
and sprinkle a couple more in each
chapter but there's not a whole lot of
pre selling or discussion questions to
go with them the assessments are more or
less dropped into the chapter our view
is very different we think the value of
assessments is getting students to take
to learn about themselves that can help
them to grow and develop professionally
personally so the first thing we do with
every assessment in our book is we want
to create the interest in the students
mind that it's worth the time to take it
so before every assessment is a short
paragraph that sells the value of it let
me give you an example let's take the
issue of person culture fit we all know
from research that when people feel they
fit in an organization they're happier
and they're more productive here's how I
might sell that so we'd be talking about
person culture fit in the book and then
we'd write something that goes like this
so what are your values do you think you
fit in your core organization the years
your organization support the things
that are important to you if you'd like
to answer these questions go to
self-assessment whatever it may be now
all of our assessments are contained on
Connect this is another good thing when
it comes to implementation because
on Connect which is a digital product
from McGraw-Hill the students can take
it you as the instructor can know
whether or not the student took it so if
you want to assign these things you can
have some evidence that they did do it
without you having to really police it
so it's on Connect you can know whether
they've taken it and I think most
importantly because it's on Connect
there's going to be multiple choice
questions that the students can take
after they read their feedback that you
actually could use for a gradable
assignment or just use for their own
development one last point to make about
self assessments Mel and I are big
believers in personal development so
what we do in our classrooms is we use
the assessments and then we have
students do a personal development plan
I am willing to put on on on the website
for our book the format and instructions
that I use personally to create personal
development plans and you can use that
to your heart's delight my students love
it it's a good way to get them to think
about skill development which after all
is why we're doing these assessments in
the first place