Is psychological testing relevant in selecting management trainees? Explain briefly.

Yes, because ones psychological profile will help to show how a candidate will perform in not so normal conditions. It will show how a candidate will perform under stress, under temptation, under tight resources, under stiff competition and most of all it will show how the candidate will react or take changes as it happens.

If the job role is relevant to make of psychological decision, organization can go personality or behavioral or situational test.

Psychological testing is comprised of tests such as intelligence test such as the WAIS-IV (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test-Fourth Edition).

Other psychological testing includes those tests that help identify if there are any personality patterns that may be of interest for employment. Such tests of personality are the MMPI-II (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) .