THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT IN-BASKET (GMIB) Technical Report

Reviewer #1 In summary, the General Management In-Basket is a sound test of management skills...The results will be informative to the candidates, and their acceptance of the test should be favorable..." Reviewer #2 "In comparison to assessment centers, the GMIB provides a similar level of validity at significantly lower cost... In short, the GMIB should be seriously examined by any organization interested in improving the identification and selection of its management talent..." The General Management In-Basket is the only in-basket test that has been reviewed for Buros' Mental Measurements Yearbook. The GMIB was included in the 12th edition, published in 1995. In keeping with standard practice, two experts in the field independently reviewed the GMIB. Excerpts of their reviews are given below. In addition to the full GMIB test, a short form of the GMIB has been in usage for many years. In 2007, a new version of the GMIB Short Form was developed for students. It is known as the MSAT (Managerial Skills Assessment Test). The MSAT was implemented by one of the top ten business schools in the country and is now used as part of their educational curriculum for all business school students. As of 2011, over 5000 students have been tested. The MSAT is used to diagnose the student's current ability to lead and manage people. Each student is given a Personal Managerial Development Report. In addition, courses have been redesigned to provide coverage of the managerial concepts embedded in the MSAT. 1987 International Personnel Management Association Assessment Council. This paper gave an analysis of problems associated with the scoring of the traditional in-basket, along with how these problems were solved by utilizing the GMIB item-by-item scoring methodology. Additional papers describing reliability and validity studies were presented at the 1989 and 1991 meetings of the International Congress on the Assessment Center Method. This report is essentially a combination of the earlier papers, along with the results of additional studies that have been conducted. The first major validity study on the GMIB was conducted in 1987. The research method utilized in that study, along with the results, is described in detail in this report. Subsequent studies of the GMIB utilized essentially the same methodology, with the exception of a study conducted by the U.S. Department of Army. The results of these additional studies are briefly summarized in this report. Substantial information on the performance of racial and …