Recently added articles from Personnel Psychology:
EFFECTS OF DESCRIPTOR SPECIFICITY AND OBSERVABILITY ON INCUMBENT WORK ANALYSIS RATINGS
Oct 01, 2009; ... Judgments regarding the requirements of jobs and the requirements of individuals performing those jobs comprise the critical groundwork on which human resource practices are built. Yet, such judgments are potentially limited in a variety of ways. Using a large sample of incumbents (N = 47,137) ...
Methods in Psychological Research
Oct 01, 2009; ... Annabel N. Evans and Bryan F. Rooney. Methods in Psychological Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008, 387 pages, $64.95 softcover. This text was written for use with undergraduate psychology students in a research methods class. Students who have previously taken an ...
The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations
Oct 01, 2009; ... Ronald E. Riggio, Ira Chaleff, and Jean Lipman-Blumen (Editors). The Art of Followership: How Great Followers Create Great Leaders and Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008, 416 pages, $58.00 hardcover. After the "Rethinking Followership Conference" that took place in February ...
Designing Matrix Organizations That Actually Work: How IBM, Procter & Gamble, and Others Design for Success
Oct 01, 2009; ... Jay R. Galbraith. Designing Matrix Organizations That Actually Work: How IBM, Procter & Gamble, and Others Design for Success. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009, 258 pages, $45.00 hardcover. The conventional wisdom, going back to the 1980s, is that matrix structures simply do not ...
The Perils of Accentuating the Positive
Oct 01, 2009; ... Robert B. Kaiser (Editor). (2009). The Perils of Accentuating the Positive. Tulsa, OK: HoganPress, 170 pages, $29.95 hardcover. Consultants rarely have answers to management's simplest ques- tions, such as, should we develop people by building on strengths or by fixing weaknesses? Perils ...