Month: July 2010

Unethical Organizational Behavior Can Spread Quickly

Have you found yourself wondering how organizations can get away with corruption? How it can seemingly become an industry norm to engage in devious practices? New research may provide some answers. THE RESEARCH STUDY Research on the use of wage arrears—purposely delaying payment of workers’ earned wages—in Russia showed that

Maximizing the Predictive Power of Personality Tests

Although measures of personality are fairly common in employee selection and assessment contexts, research suggests that measures of various personality characteristics tend to be less predictive of job performance than other common selection tests (e.g., cognitive ability tests, technical work sample tests). Typically, items on personality measures ask job applicants/employees