Shortlisting for senior posts

Senior house officer withdrawals from hospital posts: a questionnaire survey.

OBJECTIVES To assess the nature and number of unexpected withdrawal by senior house officers (SHOs) after acceptance of a hospital post at interview, and to investigate the reasons and possible solutions. DESIGN Postal questionnaire based study. SUBJECTS Medical staffing departments, accident and emergency (A&E) consultants, and withdrawing SHOs in England. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Unexpecte...

On Coalitional Manipulation for Multiwinner Elections: Shortlisting

Shortlisting of candidates—selecting a group of “best” candidates—is a special case of multiwinner elections. We provide the first in-depth study of the computational complexity of strategic voting for shortlisting based on the most natural and simple voting rule in this scenario, `-Bloc (every voter approves ` candidates). In particular, we investigate the influence of several tie-breaking mec...

Behavioral implications of shortlisting procedures

We consider two-stage “shortlisting procedures” in which the menu of alternatives is first pruned by some process or criterion and then a binary relation is maximized. Given a particular first-stage process, our main result supplies a necessary and sufficient condition for choice data to be consistent with a procedure in the designated class. This result applies to any class of procedures with ...

Senior house officer posts in community paediatrics--an introduction to child health.

Two-Step Shortlisting by Imperfect Experts

We explore various models of decision making using an intermediate shortlisting step. The shortlisting and the final decision are done by two imprecise experts who may or may not be identical and/or independent. MSC 2000: Primary 91B06, Secondary 90B50 Introduction Decision-making processes often consist of more than one step: I Junior management or consultants analyze a large number of possibl...