Included in that assignment are strategic and tactical questions, and finally the clincher: "How would you keep Method weird?" As co-founder Ryan explained it: "Will I want to sit next to this person for five hours on a flight?" Experience and job knowledge are important at Method, but above all that new hire must not upset the company's chemistry.
"They do have other components on paper: job knowledge, punctuality, blah blah blah.
EDMC's employee compensation "matrix" did list other "quality factors," such as business ethics, professionalism and job knowledge.
The quality factors, including "job knowledge," "professionalism" and "problem solving," were merely categories that also were judged based on the number of students enrolled, they said.
Also, Fogleman wrote and placed "letters of evaluation" in the permanent personnel files of Wickson, May, Wang, Halcli, Wilson, Pilkington, and Emery that stated that each had failed "to meet Air Force standards in job knowledge, judgment and leadership".
The shortage of job knowledge and job responsibility might decrease job performance, because job knowledge predicts job performance [ 15].
They thus recommend replacing IQ tests with job knowledge, or job understanding, tests as better predictors of job performance.
However, they exhibited a correlation of 0.3 with subjects' job knowledge.
It is because of such doubts that alternative, or additional, causal pathways in the correlations between IQ (or job knowledge) and job performance have been explored.
The danger is that of viewing job knowledge as, itself, a pure variable, when its acquisition is probably affected by a range of other variables, known and unknown.
It could be, as Schmidt and Hunter (2004) argue, that "general mental ability" (GMA) is related to job performance because it determines speed of acquisition of job knowledge, as well as its complexity; that is, simply another expression of g.
