Recently added articles from Personnel Psychology:
UNDERWATER STOCK OPTIONS AND VOLUNTARY EXECUTIVE TURNOVER: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE INTEGRATING BEHAVIORAL AND ECONOMIC THEORIES
Dec 01, 2008; ... In a study of top U.S. executives between 1996 and 2006, we examined the impact of underwater stock options on voluntary turnover. Financial and economic logic suggests that underwater options may carry a positive valuation based on Black-Scholes (BS) pricing, even when the current market price ...
DEVELOPMENT ENGAGEMENT WITHIN AND FOLLOWING DEVELOPMENTAL ASSESSMENT CENTERS: CONSIDERING FEEDBACK FAVORABILITY AND SELF-ASSESSOR AGREEMENT
Dec 01, 2008; ... This study sought to understand employees' level of behavioral engagement in response to feedback received in developmental assessment center (DAC) programs. Hypotheses were drawn from theories of self-enhancement and self-consistency and from findings in the multisource feedback and assessment ...
THE ROLE OF JOB EMBEDDEDNESS ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: THE INTERACTIVE EFFECTS WITH LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE AND ORGANIZATION-BASED SELF-ESTEEM
Dec 01, 2008; ... Although job embeddedness was originally conceptualized to explain job stability or "why people stay" in their organizations, this investigation examines the role of job embeddedness as a hypothesized moderator of relationships among leader-member exchange (LMX), organization-based self-esteem ...
HOW TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP WEAVES ITS INFLUENCE ON INDIVIDUAL JOB PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF IDENTIFICATION AND EFFICACY BELIEFS
Dec 01, 2008; ... This study examined how transformational leadership directly and indirectly relates to supervisory-rated performance collected over time including 437 participants employed by 6 U.S. banking organizations in the midwest. Results revealed that one's identification with his or her work unit, ...
INCREASED ACCURACY FOR RANGE RESTRICTION CORRECTIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY AND GENERAL MENTAL ABILITY IN JOB AND TRAINING PERFORMANCE
Dec 01, 2008; ... A recently developed procedure produces substantial improvements in the accuracy of corrections for range restriction and reveals that predictive validities of employment selection methods are higher than previously thought. This study applied this procedure to meta-analytic validities of 2 ...
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CRITERION-RELATED VALIDATION OF SELECTION PROCEDURES: A CRITICAL REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRACTICE
Dec 01, 2008; ... The use of validated employee selection and promotion procedures is critical to workforce productivity and to the legal defensibility of the personnel decisions made on the basis of those procedures. Consequently, there have been numerous scholarly developments that have considerable ...
The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools
Dec 01, 2008; ... Jack Gordon (Editor). The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools. San Francisco: Pfeiffer, 2008, 464 pages, $35.00 softcover. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Leadership Development Tools is organized into three sections: "Presentations and Discussion Resources," ...
Goal Setting: How to Create an Action Plan and Achieve Your Goals (2nd edition)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Susan B. Wilson and Michael S. Dobson. Goal Setting: How to Create an Action Plan and Achieve Your Goals (2nd edition). New York: American Management Association, 2008, 118 pages, $12.00 softcover. At some point in your career, many of you have likely heard about the value of setting ...
Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life
Dec 01, 2008; ... Stewart Friedman. Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Publishing, 2008,233 pages, $25.95 softcover. Total Leadership isn't your traditional business book. It isn't about foolproof sales techniques, how to get your dream job, or squeezing ...
Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America-And How We Can Get More of It
Dec 01, 2008; ... Arthur C. Brooks. Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America-And How We Can Get More of It. New York: Basic Books, 2008, 277 pages, $26.95, hardcover. In Gross National Happiness, Brooks offers comprehensive evidence regarding the development and experience of ...
Organization Change: Theory and Practice. (2nd edition)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Burke W. Warner. Organization Change: Theory and Practice. (2nd edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008,352 pages, $46.95 softcover. It's almost impossible to pick up a business periodical these days and not read about some type of changes occurring in businesses, both large ...
Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons
Dec 01, 2008; ... Peter Barnes. Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. San Francisco: Berret-Koehier, 2006, 195 pages, $22.95 hardcover. The author contends that corporations, with no resistance from a captive government, are privatizing the commons, profiting from it, and externalizing the ...
AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION FOR THE ASYMMETRICAL EFFECTS IN RELATIONAL DEMOGRAPHY RESEARCH
Oct 01, 2008; ... Several relational demography studies have demonstrated asymmetrical effects of dissimilarity across different groups of employees. Some groups of employees appear to be more influenced by differences from fellow employees, whereas other groups of employees appear indifferent. Although numerous ...
EMPLOYEE ATTRIBUTIONS OF THE "WHY" OF HR PRACTICES: THEIR EFFECTS ON EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS, AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
Oct 01, 2008; ... The construct of human resource (HR) attributions is introduced. We argue that the attributions that employees make about the reasons why management adopts the HR practices that it does have consequences for their attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately, unit performance. Drawing on the ...
A LONGITUDINAL EXAMINATION OF CONCOMITANT CHANGES IN TEAM LEADERSHIP AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
Oct 01, 2008; ... For each of three 1-year time periods, we examined the relationship between changes in the team leadership of branch managers (as measured by employee ratings) and concomitant changes in customer satisfaction for branches of a regional bank. Specifically, for the time period 2001-2002, we ...
GROUP DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY: META-ANALYSES COMPARING FIVE U.S. RACIAL GROUPS
Oct 01, 2008; ... This research poses 2 applied questions: How large are racial group differences on personality scales and are these differences likely to cause adverse impact in personnel selection? We examined the extent to which racial groups differ across Big 5 personality factors and facets. Large-scale, ...
WORK SAMPLE TESTS IN PERSONNEL SELECTION: A META-ANALYSIS OF BLACK-WHITE DIFFERENCES IN OVERALL AND EXERCISE SCORES
Oct 01, 2008; ... Work sample exams are generally thought to have either low or comparatively low levels of ethnic group differences when used for personnel selection. Such exams are sometimes called "simulation exercises" and involve having applicants perform a set of tasks that are similar to those performed on ...
THE IMPACT OF HUMAN RESOURCE AND OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON COMPANY PRODUCTIVITY: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY
Oct 01, 2008; ... Within the strategic human resource management (SHRM) perspective, psychology-based practices, especially empowerment, extensive training, and teamwork, are seen as vital to sustained competitive advantage. Other approaches, such as those of integrated manufacturing and lean production, place ...
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Oct 01, 2008; ... Marshall Goldsmith. What Got You Here Won't Get You There. New York: Hyperion, 2007, 236 pages, $23.95 hardcover. Reviewed by David W. Bracken, Executive Consultant, Kenexa, Lincoln, Nebraska. Dear Marshall, I have recently finished reading this excellent book and, ...
Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field/The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry
Oct 01, 2008; ... Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (Editors). Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007, 286 pages, $30.00 hardcover. Lawrence E. Mitchell. The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, ...