Types of Measurement in Talent Management– The different types of measurement includes:
- Nominal Measurement is a measure in which numbers are assigned to labels that are discrete. For example, ‘1’ is used to represent Male and ‘2’ represents Female.
- Ordinal Measurement is a used for assigning numbers in ascending or descending order for attributes. For example in a task, ‘1’ can represent to a task completed by a person, ‘2’ for the second person and so on. Ordinal data is used to represent a rank.
- Interval Measurement provides the meaning between a set of scores. For example the distance between 40 to 50 degrees centigrade is the same as the distance between 80 to 90 degrees. Here the interval is constant. Similarly, 100 degrees F is twice 50 degrees F, hence when converted to Celsius the ratio 2:1 does not hold. Examples of interval measurement includes, intelligence scores, self-reported motivation scores etc.
- Ratio Measurement includes a meaningful ratio point, by which ratios from the measure is constructed. For example, if there are 12 men and 6 women in a department, the ratio of men to women in that department is 2: 1.
