Personnel Psychology articles from December 2003

Personnel Psychology archives from December 2003

A note from the publisher.
December 22, 2003... I am pleased to announce the appointment of Murray R. Barrick as Associate Editor of Personnel Psychology. Murray will work directly with Editor Ann Marie Ryan, who noted that "Murray's experiences as a prolific author, editorial board member,...

A clarification on Aguinis (2001).(Correction Notice)
December 22, 2003... In a recently published article in Personnel Psychology, Aguinis (2001) investigated the relative accuracy of the "traditional" and "mean" estimators of sampling error variance of correlations. It should be noted that the recta-analysis by...

Recruiters' use of GPA in initial screening decisions: higher GPAS don't always make the cut.
December 22, 2003... The relationship between college grade point average (GPA) and recruiters' initial screening decisions was examined using data from 548 job postings in a college recruitment program. Results indicate that in-major grade point average (GPA) is...

Employees that think and act like owners: effects of ownership beliefs and behaviors on organizational effectiveness.
December 22, 2003... A model of the psychological experience of employee ownership in work groups was developed to investigate antecedents (participation in a 401(k) program and a climate of self-determination) and consequences (employee attitudes and financial...

Towards an understanding of integrity test similarities and differences: an item-level analysis of seven tests.
December 22, 2003... A judgmental sort of 798 items from 7 paper-and-pencil integrity tests produced 23 thematic composites. Patterns of correlations between these composites and the 7 integrity measures and 2 Big Five measures shed light on similarities and...

Breach and fulfillment of the psychological contract: a comparison of traditional and expanded views.
December 22, 2003... Breach and fulfillment in a psychological contract has traditionally been studied with approaches that are conceptually and methodologically limited. We compared predictions derived from the traditional view to predictions from an expanded view...

The effect of verbal self-guidance training on collective efficacy and team performance.
December 22, 2003... Although organizations frequently use teams, few studies have systematically examined training methods designed to improve collective efficacy and team performance. As such, the primary purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of...

Are the 100 best better? An empirical investigation of the relationship between being a "great place to work" and firm performance.
December 22, 2003... We argue that positive employee relations effectively serves as an intangible and enduring asset, and may, therefore, be a source of sustained competitive advantage at the firm level. We survey a number of measures of firm-level performance and...

Is it worth it to win the talent war? Evaluating the utility of performance-based pay.(Scientist-Practitioner Forum)
December 22, 2003... Although the business press suggests that "winning the talent war," the attraction and retention of key talent, is increasingly pivotal to organization success, executives often report that their organizations do not fare well on this...

Stephanie A. Shields. Speaking from the Heart: Gender and the Social Meaning of Emotion.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Boston: Cambridge, 2002, 214 pages, $28.00. Having a strong interest in the measurement of emotion associated with workplace performance, particularly as related to pay inequities in historically "gendered" occupations (e.g., nursing and...

Debra L. Nelson and Ronald J. Burke (Editors). Gender, Work Stress, and Health.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2002, 260 pages, $39.95. You can hardly turn on the television or pick up a newspaper and not find a story about stress: spouses of Alzheimer's patients experience stress that affects the...

James Campbell Quick and Lois E. Tetrick (Editors). Handbook of Occupational Health Psychology.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2003, 494 pages, $49.95. Everybody knows that work can be harmful to your health. Archeological evidence shows that people thousands of years ago had medical conditions resulting from...

Ivan T. Robertson, Militza Callinan, and Dave Bartram (Editors). Organizational Effectiveness: the Role of Psychology.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002, 289 pages, $75.00. The stated objective of this edited volume is to summarize knowledge about the linkages between behavior at the individual level and effectiveness at the organizational level. The book...

Kerstin Sahlin-Andersson and Lars Engwall (Editors). The Expansion of Management Knowledge: Carriers, Flows, and Sources.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Pale Alto, CA: Stanford, 2002, 373 pages, $65.00 cloth, $32.95 softcover. The blurb on the back cover of this volume reads "This book provides an up-to-date summary of the development, refinement, and diffusion of managerial ideas, adding...

Yefim Fasser and Donald Brettner. Management for Quality in High-Technology Enterprises.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... New York: John Wiley Inter-Science, 2002, 435 pages, $79.95. Both authors have been affiliated with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)--Fasser as Director of Systems and Statistical Engineering, and Brettner as Group Vice President. They...

Maxine Dalton, Chris Ernst, Jennifer Deal, and Jean Leslie. Success for the New Global Manager: How to Work Across Distances, Countries, and Cultures.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002, 204 pages, $29.95. Global, global, global. All the time, we hear about how the workplace is now global and that managers today must be able to deal with the internationalization of work. Well, the current...

Jean Helms Mills. Making Sense of Organizational Change.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2003, 244 pages, $120.00 U.S., $180.00 Cdn., (cloth); $35.95 U.S., $53.95 Cdn., (paper). Management guru Tom Peters' (1992) oft-quoted statement "change or die" has become a mantra...

James E. Post, Lee E. Preston, and Sybille Sachs. Redefining the Corporation: Stakeholder Management and Organizational Wealth.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Palo Alto: Stanford, 2002, 320 pages, $55.00 cloth, $27.95 softcover. Not too long ago, I reviewed a book called Invisible Advantage: How Intangibles are Driving Business Performance (Low & Kalafut, 2002) for this section of Personnel...

Mark Lengnick-Hall and Cynthia Lengnick-Hall. Human Resource Management in the Knowledge Economy: New Challenges, New Roles, New Capabilities.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2002, 204 pages, $24.95 softcover. Human Resource Management in the Knowledge Economy comes at an appropriate time. The business landscape is moving steadily towards the "knowledge era," creating new...

Michael M. Beyerlein, Sue Freedman, Craig McGee, and Linda Moran. Beyond Teams: Building the Collaborative Organization.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2003, 247 pages, $42.00 softcover. This book is about collaborative work systems. These are systems where strategies, policies, and structures are established, and values, behaviors, and practices are...

William H. Mobley and Morgan W. McCall, Jr. (Editors). Advances in Global Leadership, Volume 2.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Amsterdam: JAI Press, 2001, 409 pages, $81.00. This text is Volume 2 in a series about global leadership initiated by JAI in 1999. It is similar to the many other series published by JAI in that it includes a mix of chapters written by...

Susan T. Fiske, Daniel L. Schachter, and Carolyn Sahn-Waxler (Editors). Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 54.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 2003, 725 pages, $65.00. At one time, witnesses in many courtrooms in the U.S. were required to kiss the Bible as part of their pledge "to tell the truth, nothing but the truth," in the belief that such an...

Lilly M. Berry. Employee Selection.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Belmont, CA: Thompson/Wadsworth, 2003, 506 pages, $50.95 softcover. Given the high costs of hiring and keeping good employees, the legal constraints of the hiring process, the increasing role of technology in hiring, and the volatility of...

Steven P. Reise and Naihua Duan (Editors). Multilevel Modeling: Methodological Advances, Issues, and Applications.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003, 314 pages, $69.95. What are the important determinants of employee performance? Individual personality traits such as conscientiousness? Management practices such as personal treatment?...

Stephen W. Raudenbush and Anthony S. Bryk. Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002, 483 pages, $70.95. Most substantive questions addressed by industrial, work, and organizational (IWO) psychologists involve variables at multiple levels of conceptualization. Disentangling the variance due to...

Richard G. Netemeyer, William O. Bearden, and Subhash Sharma. Scaling Procedures: Issues and Applications.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 206 pages, $32.95 softcover. In this book, the authors explain how to make "paper-and-pencil measures of latent social-psychological constructs." The book is about creating and validating what some would call...

Bruce Thompson (Editor). Score Reliability: Contemporary Thinking on Reliability Issues.(Book Review)
December 22, 2003... Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003, 283 pages, $27.95 softcover. If nothing else, you will learn in the first 100 pages of this paperback that it is inaccurate to state that a test is reliable. When you are done reading the text, you will feel...

Books and materials received *.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2003... Bacon, Terry R. and Pugh, David G. Winning Behavior: What the Smartest, Most Successful Companies Do Differently. New York: AMACOM, 2003, 352 pages, $29.95. Baumol, William J., Blinder, Alan S., and Wolff, Edward N. Downsizing in America:...