Personnel Psychology back issues from December 2004:
Editorial
Dec 01, 2004; ... Recently Personnel Psychology was bought by Blackwell Publishing. As editor, I am excited by the possibilities our new publisher brings and look forward to working with Blackwell. I am also happy for our long-time publisher and former editor, Milt Hakel, and managing editor, Lee Hakel, as they ...
EASING THE INFERENTIAL LEAP IN COMPETENCY MODELING: THE EFFECTS OF TASK-RELATED INFORMATION AND SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE
Dec 01, 2004; ... Despite the rising popularity of the practice of competency modeling, research on competency modeling has lagged behind. This study begins to close this practice-science gap through 3 studies (1 lab study and 2 field studies), which employ generalizability analysis to shed light on (a) the ...
THE IMPACT OF POOR PERFORMERS ON TEAM OUTCOMES: AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF ATTRIBUTION THEORY
Dec 01, 2004; ... We test assertions that attribution theory (AT) can explain the responses of peers to the characteristics of a poor performing team member. Study 1 assessed the processes used to interpret the behavior of a poor performer and found that behavioral manifestations of cognitive ability (g) and ...
CAN CHANGES IN DIFFERENTIAL DROPOUT RATES REDUCE ADVERSE IMPACT? A COMPUTER SIMULATION STUDY OF A MULTI-WAVE SELECTION SYSTEM
Dec 01, 2004; ... A simulation was used to explore the effects of variations in the rate at which applicants drop out of selection processes on racial differences in selection outcomes. Archival data was used to simulate a realistic range of selection scenarios in which test score differences between groups and ...
STICKING OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB: EMPLOYEE DISSIMILARITY AND DEVIANCE AT WORK
Dec 01, 2004; ... This study examined demographic- and personality-based employee dissimilarities in relation to organizational and interpersonal deviant behaviors. Perceived organizational support (POS), organizational commitment, perceived coworker support, and coworker satisfaction were proposed as mediators ....
The Psychology and Management of Workplace Diversity
Dec 01, 2004; ... Margaret S. Stockdale and Faye J. Crosby (Editors). The Psychology and Management of Workplace Diversity. Victoria, Australia: Blackwell, 2004, 377 pages, $34.95 softcover. Workplace diversity is a subject of increasing importance to a broad spectrum of individuals including researchers, ...
SELECTION TESTING VIA THE INTERNET: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND EXPLORATORY EMPIRICAL FINDINGS
Dec 01, 2004; ... Despite a growing body of applied research on using the Internet for some human resource management practices, few studies have provided equivalence information or practical lessons concerning selection testing via the Internet. We identify several issues associated with measurement and ...
Editorial: Book Reviewing as an Important Scholarly Activity
Dec 01, 2004; ... Editor's Note: This editorial was coauthored with former Personnel Psychology Book Review editors, Robert G. Jones and Lynn Summers. Recently, we (Jones, Fleenor, & Summers, 2004) lamented that, in many academic institutions, writing book reviews seems to be undervalued as a ...
Building Team-Based Working: A Practical Guide to Organizational Transformation
Dec 01, 2004; ... Michael A. West and Lynn Markiewicz. Building Team-Based Working: A Practical Guide to Organizational Transformation. Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2004, 172 pages, $74.95 hardcover. In recent years, many organizations have made the transition to teams, and working interdependently has become a ...
Ethics and Values in Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Dec 01, 2004; ... Joel Lefkowitz. Ethics and Values in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, 493 pages, $99.95 hardcover, $49.95 softcover. Ethics and Values in Industrial-Organizational Psychology presents theoretical and philosophical foundations of values ...
Flexible Leadership: Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices
Dec 01, 2004; ... Gary Yukl and Richard Lepsinger. Flexible Leadership: Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004, 270 pages, $44.00 hardcover. Another leadership book-do we need another one? What, if anything, can this book add to our current thinking ...
Leading and Managing People in the Dynamic Organization
Dec 01, 2004; ... Randall S. Peterson and Elizabeth A. Mannix (Editors). Leading and Managing People in the Dynamic Organization. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, 280 pages, $59.95 hardcover. As individuals, in our personal and professional lives we are challenged with the struggle between ...
Change Without Pain: How Managers Can Overcome Initiative Overload, Organizational Chaos, and Employee Burnout
Dec 01, 2004; ... Eric Abrahamson. Change Without Pain: How Managers Can Overcome Initiative Overload, Organizational Chaos, and Employee Burnout. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004, 240 pages, $26.95 hardcover. Columbia management professor Eric Abrahamson contends that, although change is ...
Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline
Dec 01, 2004; ... Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, and Robert E. Quinn (Editors). Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2003, 465 pages, $45.00 hardcover. We seem to be inundated with negative images of violence in the workplace, ...
Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics
Dec 01, 2004; ... Robert Phillips. Stakeholder Theory and Organizational Ethics. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2003, 200 pages, $34.95 hardcover. When our fearless Editor sent this book to me, I was a little worried that he was either trying to improve the woeful ethics of a person willing to run for ...
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Dec 01, 2004; ... Michael Watkins. The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003, 208 pages, $24.95 softcover. Leadership is the only area of organizational behavior where psychologists claim to know less than your average ...
Group Creativity: Music, Theater, Collaboration
Dec 01, 2004; ... R. Keith Sawyer. Group Creativity: Music, Theater, Collaboration. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, 214 pages, $49.95 hardcover, $22.50 softcover. I have a good friend who plays piano in a two-person jazz ensemble. I have watched and listened to this ensemble for entire ...
What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business is Listening
Dec 01, 2004; ... Jeffrey Hollender and Stephen Fenichell. What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business is Listening. New York: Basic Books, 2004, 318 pages, $26.00 hardcover. The first author is cofounder and CEO of 7th ...
The Power of Minds at Work: Organizational Intelligence in Action
Dec 01, 2004; ... Karl Albrecht. The Power of Minds at Work: Organizational Intelligence in Action. New York: AMACOM, 2003, 260 pages, $24.95 hardcover. "Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity." That's Albrecht's Law. Karl Albrecht should know. He's ...
Personality Traits (2nd edition)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Gerald Matthews, Ian J. Deary, and Martha C. Whiteman. Personality Traits (2nd edition). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 493 pages, $30.00 softcover, $85.00 hardcover. Matthews, Deary, and Whiteman (2003) provide a spirited and intelligent presentation and review of the ...
Implementing and Managing Telework: A Guide for Those Who Make It Happen
Dec 01, 2004; ... Bill Fenson and Sharon Hill. Implementing and Managing Telework: A Guide for Those Who Make It Happen. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003, 349 pages, $64.95 hardcover. Despite North Carolina's mild winters, the rolling piedmont region is often hit by a significant snow or ice storm once each ...
The Psychology of Problem Solving
Dec 01, 2004; ... Janet E. Davidson and Robert J. Sternberg (Editors). The Psychology of Problem Solving. New York: Cambridge, 2003, 394 pages, $75.00 hardcover, $27.00 softcover. It virtually goes without saying that problem solving is an important topic in today's workplace. Employees, managers, and ...
No Best Way: An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Resource Management
Dec 01, 2004; ... Stephen M. Colarelli. No Best Way: An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Resource Management. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003, 334 pages, $66.95 hardcover. While I was growing up as a Midwesterner, I constantly heard "If you can't say something nice about somebody, don't say anything at all." ...
The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram
Dec 01, 2004; ... Thomas Blass. The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram. New York: Basic Books, 2004, 360 pages, $26.00 handcover. "May 1962. Interaction Laboratory at Yale University." Stanley Milgram's narration of his famous film, Obedience, opens with this sparse ...
Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 29
Dec 01, 2004; ... Karen S. Cook and John Hagan (Editors.). Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 29. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 2003, 649 pages, $70.00 hardcover. In a recent series of statements in the American Sociological Association's monthly publication Footnotes, several authors debated the merits ...
Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (2nd edition)
Dec 01, 2004; ... Klaus Krippendorff. Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (2nd edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004, 413 pages, $89.95 hardcover, $44.95 softcover. Krippendorff has updated his influential treatment of content analysis methodology (Krippendorff, 1980). This ...
Bullying and Emotional Abuse in the Workplace: International Perspectives in Research and Practice
Dec 01, 2004; ... Stale Einarse, Helge Hoel, Dieter Zapf, and Cary Cooper (Editors). Bullying and Emotional Abuse in the Workplace: International Perspectives in Research and Practice. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2002, 420 pages, $110.00, hardcover. When I received the edited book, Bullying and ...
Performance Management, Concepts, Skills and Exercises
Dec 01, 2004; ... Robert L. Cardy. Performance Management, Concepts, Skills and Exercises. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004, 208 pages, $39.95 softcover. Performance reviews strike terror in the hearts of managers and employees alike. Few like them. Any attempt at constructive feedback often yields ...
Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 55
Dec 01, 2004; ... Susan T. Fiske, Daniel L. Schachter, and Carolyn Sahn-Waxler (Editors). Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 55. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 2004, 944 pages, $65.00 hardcover. Although this year's Annual Review packs 200 more pages than last year's, there are still no signs of the ...
The Success Case Method: Find out Quickly What's Working and What's Not
Dec 01, 2004; ... Robert O. Brinkerhoff. The Success Case Method: Find out Quickly What's Working and What's Not. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2003, 233 pages, $24.95 softcover. Focusing on the negative often creates "a feeling of pervasive frustration and depression" (Miller, 2002) "as if there is no ...
Multilevel Analysis: Techniques and Applications
Dec 01, 2004; ... Joop Hox. Multilevel Analysis: Techniques and Applications. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002, 304 pages, $79.95 hardcover, $37.50 softcover. Multilevel methods seem to be en vogue these days. You know this if, like me, you have recently observed an increase in the frequency ...
JOB COMPLEXITY, PERFORMANCE, AND WELL-BEING: WHEN DOES SUPPLIES-VALUES FIT MATTER?
Dec 01, 2004; ... We extend person-job fit research by investigating job performance as a moderator of the supplies-values fit relationship with strain outcomes (somatic complaints and depression). Drawing on cybernetic stress and psychological centrality perspectives, we argue that supplies-values misfit relates ...