Categories : Human resource management Selection
Best Practices for Managing High Potential Employees
Harvard Business Review offers specific strategies for cultivating high potential employees. How does your organization measure up?
The Peril of Excess: Why Moderate Levels of Many Traits Might be Best (Human Resource Management)
Topic: Assessment, Performance, Selection, Human Resource Management Publication: Perspectives on Psychological Science (JAN 2011) Article: Too Much of a Good Thing: The Challenge and Opportunity of the Inverted U Authors: Grant, A. M., & Schwartz, B. Reviewed By: Thaddeus Rada A common assumption in personnel selection practice (and research) in
What’s the Time? The Role of Temporal Perspective in Justice Concerns (Human Resource Management)
Topic: Fairness, Human Resource Management Publication: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (SEP 2011) Article: Seeing the “Forest” or the “Trees” of Organizational Justice: Effects of Temporal Perspective on Employee Concerns about Unfair Treatment at Work Authors: Cojuharenco, I., Patient, D., & Bashshur, M. R. Reviewed By: Thaddeus Rada Concerns
Categories : *Journal of Business and Psychology Learning Motivation Training
Increasing Training Transfer (I/O Psychology)
Topic: Training, Learning, Motivation Publication: Journal of Business and Psychology EC 2011) Article: Influencing learning states to enhance trainee motivation and improve training transfer Authors: Weissbein, D. A., Huang, J. L., Ford, J. K., & Schmidt, A. M. Reviewed by: Alexandra Rechlin How many times have you heard about or
Everyone’s on the Same Page: The International Generalizability of Applicant Selection Attitudes (Selection)
Topic: Selection Publication: International Journal of Selection and Assessment (MAR 2008) Article: Fairness Reactions to Personnel Selection Methods: An International Comparison Between the Netherlands, the United States, France, Spain, Portugal, and Singapore Authors: Anderson, N., & Witvliet, C. Reviewed By: Thaddeus Rada Interest in applicant reactions to the selection process
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Workplace Anger May Reduce Creativity
Research finds that workplace anger can negatively impact the ability of employees to think creatively, but has no effect on analytical thinking.
Categories : *Academy of Management Human resource management Motivation
Human Resource Management: Motivating Your Workers to Create Value
Topic: Human Resource Management, Motivation Publication: Academy of Management Review Article: Heterogeneous Motives and the Collective Creation of Value Authors: Bridoux, F., Coeurderoy, R., and Durand, R. Reviewer: Neil Morelli In a world where resources are becoming scarcer, firms should be looking to boost any kind of competitive advantage they
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I/O Psychology: Credit and Blame
Topic: Book Review Title: The Blame Game Author: Ben Dattner, PhD Reviewed by: Elizabeth Brashier When we do an excellent job at work, we want to receive credit. When a team member screws something up, we want to know that he or she will be chastised – and that we
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The polls are open!!
SIOP members: it is time to vote for SIOP’s next slate of elected officers. President-elect candidates are: Rob Silzer, Managing Director, HR Assessment and Development & I-O Doctoral Faculty, Baruch/CUNY James L. Outtz, President of Outtz & Associates Deirdre J. Knapp, Vice President and Director of Assessment, Training, and Policy
Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology
Subconscious Stereotyping Leads to Hiring Discrimination
Researchers use the Implicit Association Test to find stereotyping and discrimination against obese job applicants.