Company Services

Our projects involve designing valid job-knowledge tests and assessment centers that are tailored to specific occupations and work settings, implementing the selection process for private and public sector clients and conducting structured interviews for placement of managerial personnel. 

Job-knowledge tests have been developed for numerous police and fire departments, social service case workers, and grain operators to name only a few occupations.

Morris & McDaniel, Inc., officers have considerable experience in the design and implementation of state-of-the-art assessment centers for supervisory and managerial positions. Adding to this experience, Morris & McDaniel, Inc., officers have developed programs and seminars on assessment methodology.

Morris & McDaniel, Inc., can develop tests and other methods designed to select the individuals whose strengths best match the demands of the job.

Morris & McDaniel, Inc., has considerable experience in developing and implementing performance appraisal and merit pay systems. Our goal is to provide a system that is adaptable across a wide variety of occupations.

Training is an integral part of any personnel system. Morris & McDaniel, Inc., has extensive experience in developing and conducting training programs for the public and private sectors.

Often, decision makers know that their organization can be more efficient, but they are sometimes too involved to identify the full problem. A detailed examination of the organization conducted to assess the needs in the areas of restructuring, training, reclassifying, etc., should be performed to identify underlying organizational problems and possible solutions.

Job analysis is the basis for all personnel management systems including test development, performance appraisal, staffing procedures, human resource planning, job classification and evaluation, and training program development. The job analysis procedure identifies work tasks and behaviors and the knowledge, skills and abilities required to perform these tasks.

Employability Skills Training

Morris & McDaniel has over a quarter century experience in providing personnel training. We have trained thousand of people, both in the United States and Great Britain, in employability skills training programs.

In the United States, these services were provided through the U.S. Department of Labor grants under the Comprehensive Employment Training Act and the Governors Offices of Job Development and Training programs.

These training programs were, by design, addressing a target audience of naïve candidates who had little appreciation for the expectations employment seeking and application process entailed or a full understanding of the work code expectations of modern employers.

These employability skills training programs were successful in helping job applicants find, secure, and maintain employment.

Employability Skills Training Programs

Morris & McDaniel, Inc., conducted a series of training programs for the State of Tennessee and the State of Mississippi to increase employment for both States and to help target individuals find employment. It included assessing candidates to determine for which jobs they would have the most aptitude, training candidates on how to locate the job, interview for the job, and training candidates for post-interview activities. British Equivalent of the U.S. Civil Service and the Mid-Wales Development Board, Governors Office of Job Development and Training, State of Tennessee and State of Mississippi, and the Comprehensive Employment Training Act, U.S. Department of Labor.

Development of Selection and Management Tests This project included the development of test instruments for Managers and Customer Service Representative for a telecommunications company. SunCom, Memphis, Tennessee and Jackson Mississippi

Development of Entry-Level Test for Private Utility This project included the development and scoring of an entry-level test instrument for Meter Readers and Customer Service Representative for a private utility company. Mississippi Valley Gas

Development of Screening and Selection Instrument This project included the development and scoring of a screening selection instrument for applicants applying for the job of truck driver for a national trucking company. KLLM Trucking Company

Development of Entry-Level Test for National Retail Store This project included the development and scoring of an entry-level test instrument for jobs in the retail industry. Profits, Inc.

Development of Screening and Selection Test for a National Barge Company This project included the development and scoring of a screening and selection test instrument for entry-level jobs. Canal Barge Corporation

Development and Scoring of Entry -Level and Promotional Tests for a National Paper Printing Industry This project included the development and scoring for entry-level jobs at all plant levels and multiple promotional tests for management positions at the plant. Newsprint South

Selection Program Development

Development and validation of an employee selection program. SANYO Manufacturing Corporation

Test Specialist Services

Officers in the firm were retained on a monthly basis as the Test Specialist by two public utility companies and one private steel corporation to advise on issues regarding testing, personnel and organizational concerns. New Orleans Public Utilities Service, Waterford 3 Nuclear Power Plant, and Steel Services Corporation

Psychiatric Aide Skills Training Program

This project consisted of three phases. First, we developed a state-approved curriculum in psychiatric aide skills. Local hospitals were surveyed in order to incorporate their needs into the training program. Second, we conducted a 12- week program headed by two trained registered nurses. Third, placements of successful graduates were conducted. Department of Labor, Jobs Training
 

Morris & McDaniel, Inc. has given expert testimony in federal courts on the interpretation of the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Civil Service Commission (now the Office of Personnel Management), and the Departments of Justice and Labor.

Morris & McDaniel, Inc. is a firm of industrial/ organizational psychologists, one of whom is also a licensed attorney experienced in employment discrimination law, has had broad experience in Title VII litigation.

Performance appraisals frequently become an issue in employment litigation. Often litigation may be avoided by considering legal issues in designing or redesigning your testing, assessment, and selection systems.