Categories : *Personnel Psychology
Quick Job Offers Yield Higher Acceptance Rates
Researchers find that organizations stand to gain by quickly offering jobs to qualified applicants.
Categories : *Personnel Psychology
Deep Dive on Situational Judgment Tests
Researchers take a closer look at SJTs to see what they measure and how well they relate to job performance. Should they be used for employee selection?
Categories : *Personnel Psychology
Why Group-Level Job Satisfaction Matters
Researchers find that measuring employees at the group or team level leads to stronger relationships between job satisfaction and job performance.
Categories : *Personnel Psychology
Measuring Emotions With Word Completion Tests
Researchers design a new test that measures employees’ level of positive or negative emotions. What workplace outcomes are related to these emotions?
Categories : *Personnel Psychology
Guide Trainees Through E-Learning the Quick and Easy Way
Researchers explore the effects of two different strategies to help employees successfully navigate e-learning.
Categories : *Personnel Psychology *The Financial
The Motives Behind Counterproductive Work Behavior
Researchers find that employees have different reasons for engaging in counterproductive work behavior, which may lead to different outcomes.
Categories : *Personnel Psychology Job Analysis
Hiring an Army of Me
Topic: Job Analysis Publication: Personnel Psychology (SUMMER 2009) Article: Using web-based frame-of-reference training to decrease biases in personality-based job analysis: An experimental field study Author: H. Aguinis, M.D. Mazurkiewicz, E.D. Heggestad Reviewed by: Katie Bachman Job analysis is one of the cornerstones of Industrial-Organizational Psychology and the method for executing a job
Categories : *Personnel Psychology Research Methodology
Self-Starting Research on a Test of Personal Initiative
Topic: Research Methodology Publication: Personnel Psychology (SUMMER 2009) Article: A situational judgment test of personal initiative and its relationship to performance. Author: R. Bledow, M. Freese Reviewed By: Katie Bachman Predicting performance is the Holy Grail of Industrial/Organizational Psychology. I hate to whine, but how can we possibly measure performance when those
Categories : *Personnel Psychology Stress
Stressed at Work? Here’s a Drink on Me!
Topic: Stress Publication: Personnel Psychology (AUTUMN 2009) Article: Daily work stress and alcohol use: Testing the cross-level moderation effects of neuroticism and job involvement Authors: S. Liu, M. Wang, Y. Zhan, and J. Shi Reviewed By: Benjamin Granger Many employees (perhaps as many as 92.5 million in the U.S. alone)
Categories : *Personnel Psychology Decision Making Job Analysis
Job Descriptions: Lost in Translation?
Topic: Decision Making, Job analysis Publication: Personnel Psychology Article: The transportability of job information across countries. Blogger: Larry Martinez I have never seen such a long article with no punch line. Taylor, Kan Shi, and Borman, armed with data from four different countries and elaborate theory-based hypotheses were at the beginning of a great rags-to-riches story (think the first 45 minutes of any Mighty Ducks