Last week, Dr. Jim Kuthy spoke to members of the Personnel Testing Council of Northern California during a monthly training forum held at the Department of Justice in Sacramento.
Jim’s presentation, Performance Appraisals and Terminations: Best Practices, discussed one of the most highly contested areas of litigation – employees who have been terminated based solely on their poor performance. In today’s economy, it’s known that the odds of court litigation have dramatically increased as the number of jobs available has decreased. Jim’s timely session focused on court-accepted practices that are more likely to result in performance-based termination decisions being upheld. Also, he highlighted those actions that employers should avoid when making termination decisions based on poor performance.
Here’s a short video excerpt:
About Jim Kuthy, Principal Consultant, Biddle Consulting Group:
Jim Kuthy is distinguished by being both a personnel assessment specialist as well as a former law enforcement officer in two states. He is the author of Biddle Consulting Group’s CritiCall Dispatcher/Telecommunicator Pre-Employment Selection Software and conducted its nationwide validation study. He also serves as an equal employment opportunity consultant for the firm’s court cases. He has a M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Akron in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, which has been consistently rated as one of the top ten schools in the country for this specialty area. He has also served as a test consultant to an International Chiefs of Police association and has assisted in the development of validated employment tests nationwide.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimkuthy
About the Personnel Testing Council of Northern California:
PTC/NC provides a forum for over 150 public and private-sector professionals in personnel assessment and selection to network with other professionals and discuss the latest legal, technical, and practical issues surrounding personnel assessment and selection. They hold monthly lunch-time seminars and an annual conference featuring top professionals in the fields of human resources, management, and industrial/organizational psychology.
Learn more about the PTC/NC by visiting them online at https://ptcnc.org.
