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Netra Shetty
Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California, USA. It provides 11 million people with electricity. However, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, San Diego Gas & Electric, Imperial Irrigation District, and some smaller municipal utilities serve substantial portions of the southern California territory. The northern part of the state is generally served by the Pacific Gas & Electric Company of San Francisco.
Southern California Edison (SCE) still owns all of its electrical transmission facilities and equipment, but the deregulation of California's electricity market forced the company to sell many of its power plants, though some were probably sold by choice. In California, SCE retained only its hydroelectric plants, totaling about 1,200 MW, and its 75% share of the 2,150-MW San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The utility lost all of its natural gas-fired plants, which provided most of its electrical generation. The large, aging plants were bought by out-of-state companies such as Mirant and Reliant Energy, which allegedly used them to manipulate the California energy market. However, SCE still owns about half of the 1,580-MW coal-fired Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada, which supplied electricity to California, Nevada, and Arizona. Mohave closed in December 2005, amid concerns regarding water rights and coal supplies.
Southern California Edison's power grid is linked to PG&E's by the Path 26 wires that generally follow Interstate 5 over Tejon Pass. The interconnection takes place at a massive substation at Buttonwillow. PG&E's and WAPA's Path 15 and Path 66, respectively, from Buttonwillow north eventually connect to BPA's grid in the Pacific Northwest. There are several other interconnections with local and out-of-state utilities, such as Path 46.
Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California, USA. It provides 11 million people with electricity. However, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, San Diego Gas & Electric, Imperial Irrigation District, and some smaller municipal utilities serve substantial portions of the southern California territory. The northern part of the state is generally served by the Pacific Gas & Electric Company of San Francisco.
Southern California Edison (SCE) still owns all of its electrical transmission facilities and equipment, but the deregulation of California's electricity market forced the company to sell many of its power plants, though some were probably sold by choice. In California, SCE retained only its hydroelectric plants, totaling about 1,200 MW, and its 75% share of the 2,150-MW San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The utility lost all of its natural gas-fired plants, which provided most of its electrical generation. The large, aging plants were bought by out-of-state companies such as Mirant and Reliant Energy, which allegedly used them to manipulate the California energy market. However, SCE still owns about half of the 1,580-MW coal-fired Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada, which supplied electricity to California, Nevada, and Arizona. Mohave closed in December 2005, amid concerns regarding water rights and coal supplies.
Southern California Edison's power grid is linked to PG&E's by the Path 26 wires that generally follow Interstate 5 over Tejon Pass. The interconnection takes place at a massive substation at Buttonwillow. PG&E's and WAPA's Path 15 and Path 66, respectively, from Buttonwillow north eventually connect to BPA's grid in the Pacific Northwest. There are several other interconnections with local and out-of-state utilities, such as Path 46.
Current assessment (cont’d)
Job description
A written statement of what the job holder does, how it is
done, and why it is done.
Job specification
A written statement of the minimum qualifications that a
person must possess to perform a given job successfully.
Robbins, Bergman, Stagg, Coulter: Management 4e © 2006 Pearson Education Australia
Recruitment and decruitment
Recruitment
The process of locating, identifying, and attracting
capable applicants to an organisation
Decruitment
The process of reducing a surplus of employees in the
workforce of an organisation
E-recruiting
Recruitment of employees through the Internet
organisational web sites
Online recruiters
Selection
Selection process
The process of screening job applicants to ensure that
the most appropriate candidates are hired.
Selection
An exercise in predicting which applicants, if hired, will
be (or will not be) successful in performing well on the
criteria the organisation uses to evaluate performance.
Selection errors:
Reject errors for potentially successful applicants
Accept errors for ultimately poor performers
Robbins, Bergman, Stagg, Coulter: Management 4e © 2006 Pearson Education Australia
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Robbins, Bergman, Stagg, Coulter: Management 4e © 2006 Pearson Education Australia
Validity and reliability
Validity (of prediction)
A proven relationship between the selection device used
and some relevant criterion for successful performance
in an organisation.
High tests scores equate to high job performance; low
scores to poor performance.
Reliability (of prediction)
The degree of consistency with which a selection device
measures the same thing.
Individual test scores obtained with a selection device are
consistent over multiple testing instances.
Types of selection devices
Application forms
Written tests
Performance simulations
Interviews
Background investigations
Physical examinations
Southern California Edison (SCE) still owns all of its electrical transmission facilities and equipment, but the deregulation of California's electricity market forced the company to sell many of its power plants, though some were probably sold by choice. In California, SCE retained only its hydroelectric plants, totaling about 1,200 MW, and its 75% share of the 2,150-MW San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The utility lost all of its natural gas-fired plants, which provided most of its electrical generation. The large, aging plants were bought by out-of-state companies such as Mirant and Reliant Energy, which allegedly used them to manipulate the California energy market. However, SCE still owns about half of the 1,580-MW coal-fired Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada, which supplied electricity to California, Nevada, and Arizona. Mohave closed in December 2005, amid concerns regarding water rights and coal supplies.
Southern California Edison's power grid is linked to PG&E's by the Path 26 wires that generally follow Interstate 5 over Tejon Pass. The interconnection takes place at a massive substation at Buttonwillow. PG&E's and WAPA's Path 15 and Path 66, respectively, from Buttonwillow north eventually connect to BPA's grid in the Pacific Northwest. There are several other interconnections with local and out-of-state utilities, such as Path 46.
Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California, USA. It provides 11 million people with electricity. However, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, San Diego Gas & Electric, Imperial Irrigation District, and some smaller municipal utilities serve substantial portions of the southern California territory. The northern part of the state is generally served by the Pacific Gas & Electric Company of San Francisco.
Southern California Edison (SCE) still owns all of its electrical transmission facilities and equipment, but the deregulation of California's electricity market forced the company to sell many of its power plants, though some were probably sold by choice. In California, SCE retained only its hydroelectric plants, totaling about 1,200 MW, and its 75% share of the 2,150-MW San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. The utility lost all of its natural gas-fired plants, which provided most of its electrical generation. The large, aging plants were bought by out-of-state companies such as Mirant and Reliant Energy, which allegedly used them to manipulate the California energy market. However, SCE still owns about half of the 1,580-MW coal-fired Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada, which supplied electricity to California, Nevada, and Arizona. Mohave closed in December 2005, amid concerns regarding water rights and coal supplies.
Southern California Edison's power grid is linked to PG&E's by the Path 26 wires that generally follow Interstate 5 over Tejon Pass. The interconnection takes place at a massive substation at Buttonwillow. PG&E's and WAPA's Path 15 and Path 66, respectively, from Buttonwillow north eventually connect to BPA's grid in the Pacific Northwest. There are several other interconnections with local and out-of-state utilities, such as Path 46.
Current assessment (cont’d)
Job description
A written statement of what the job holder does, how it is
done, and why it is done.
Job specification
A written statement of the minimum qualifications that a
person must possess to perform a given job successfully.
Robbins, Bergman, Stagg, Coulter: Management 4e © 2006 Pearson Education Australia
Recruitment and decruitment
Recruitment
The process of locating, identifying, and attracting
capable applicants to an organisation
Decruitment
The process of reducing a surplus of employees in the
workforce of an organisation
E-recruiting
Recruitment of employees through the Internet
organisational web sites
Online recruiters
Selection
Selection process
The process of screening job applicants to ensure that
the most appropriate candidates are hired.
Selection
An exercise in predicting which applicants, if hired, will
be (or will not be) successful in performing well on the
criteria the organisation uses to evaluate performance.
Selection errors:
Reject errors for potentially successful applicants
Accept errors for ultimately poor performers
Robbins, Bergman, Stagg, Coulter: Management 4e © 2006 Pearson Education Australia
13
Robbins, Bergman, Stagg, Coulter: Management 4e © 2006 Pearson Education Australia
Validity and reliability
Validity (of prediction)
A proven relationship between the selection device used
and some relevant criterion for successful performance
in an organisation.
High tests scores equate to high job performance; low
scores to poor performance.
Reliability (of prediction)
The degree of consistency with which a selection device
measures the same thing.
Individual test scores obtained with a selection device are
consistent over multiple testing instances.
Types of selection devices
Application forms
Written tests
Performance simulations
Interviews
Background investigations
Physical examinations