Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Curiosity May Help New Hires Succeed
Researchers explore the role of curiosity in predicting whether new employees will adapt and succeed at a new organization.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
The Strange Relationship Between Employee Weight and Salary
Researchers demonstrate that employee bodyweight has a relationship with salary, with different outcomes for males and females.
Categories : *International Journal of Selection and Assessment
How to Properly Evaluate Training Effectiveness
Researchers discuss the importance of carefully evaluating the effectiveness of organizational training. It may be inadequate to simply ask employees if they learned anything.
Categories : *International Journal of Selection and Assessment
Do Organizations Ask What They Shouldn’t Ask on Job Applications?
Researchers find that some organizations collect job applicant data that could be used in an illegal or unfair way.
Categories : *International Journal of Selection and Assessment
Managing Assessors’ Workloads in Assessment Centers
Researchers make the case for decreasing the workloads of the people who rate applicants in employee assessment centers.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
How to Land a Job After an Internship
Researchers investigate how impression management strategies can make it more likely for interns to receive job offers.
Categories : *Harvard Business Review3 Comments
Organizations Succeed With Talent Analytics
Harvard Business review explains how talent analytics can successfully be used by organizations to maximize their human capital.
Categories : *International Journal of Selection and Assessment
How Do Job Applicants React to Various Selection Tests?
Researchers compare various tools used for employee selection. Which types of tests are most or least favored by job applicants?
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
How Letters of Recommendation Can Hurt Female Job Candidates
Researchers discover that “helping” terms typically used to praise females in letters of recommendation may actually be making them appear less qualified.
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Are Smarter Employees More Likely to Turnover?
Cognitive ability is one of the best predictors of employee job performance across jobs, but there are other important organizational outcomes besides job performance that cognitive ability may not predict as favorably. One such possibility is voluntary turnover. Unfortunately, previous attempts at linking cognitive ability to voluntary turnover have shown that