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of innovation and creativity cannot be overestimated for the purpose of avoiding being outdated or suffer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.