Personnel Psychology articles from March 22 2005

Personnel Psychology archives from March 22 2005

Forced distribution rating systems and the improvement of workforce potential: a baseline simulation.
March 22, 2005... Through simulation we investigate how characteristics of forced distribution rating systems (FDRS), which require firing a certain percentage of the workforce each year, might interact with ratings reliability, selection validity, selection...

Does performance improve following multisource feedback? A theoretical model, meta-analysis, and review of empirical findings.
March 22, 2005... We review evidence showing that multisource feedback ratings are related to other measures of leadership effectiveness and that different rater sources conceptualize performance in a similar manner. We then describe a meta-analysis of 24...

Out-of-the-money: the impact of underwater stock options on executive job search.
March 22, 2005... The need for future leadership in organizations is widely recognized, and often addressed through leadership development, succession planning, and building a top talent pipeline among existing employees. Equally important is retaining talented...

The structure of conscientiousness: an empirical investigation based on seven major personality questionnaires.
March 22, 2005... The purpose of this study was to identify the underlying structure of the trait domain of Conscientiousness using scales drawn from 7 major personality inventories. Thirty-six scales conceptually related to Conscientiousness were administered...

Lying person-to-person about life events: a cognitive framework for lie detection.
March 22, 2005... Undetected lies of prospective or current employees cost business billions of dollars annually. The ability to detect these lies would be of immense benefit. Several recent reports have called for research on new, theoretically based methods of...

Understanding responses to multi-source feedback: the role of core self-evaluations.
March 22, 2005... This longitudinal study examines the role of core self-evaluations in responses to multisource feedback. Consistent with past research, feedback recipients were most satisfied when others' ratings were high. Core self-evaluations was not...

Jeffrey S. Nielsen. The Myth of Leadership: Creating Leaderless Organizations.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Jeffrey S. Nielsen. The Myth of Leadership: Creating Leaderless Organizations. Palo Alto, CA: Davies-Black Publishing, 2004, 187 pages, $25.95 hardcover. Although I found his book to be flawed in many respects, I feel solidarity with its...

Dan van Knippenberg and Michael A. Hogg (Editors). Leadership and Power: Identity Processes in Groups and Organizations.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Dan van Knippenberg and Michael A. Hogg (Editors). Leadership and Power: Identity Processes in Groups and Organizations. London: Sage Publications, 2003, 263 pages, $42.95 softcover. If you are a social psychologist interested in leadership...

Kenneth P. DeMeuse and Mitchell Lee Marks (Editors). Resizing the Organization: Managing Layoffs, Divestitures, and Closings.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Kenneth P. DeMeuse and Mitchell Lee Marks (Editors). Resizing the Organization: Managing Layoffs, Divestitures, and Closings. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003, 402 pages, $50.00 hardcover. These days, if an organization terminates more...

Thomas A. Kochan and Richard L. Schmalensee (Editors). Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Thomas A. Kochan and Richard L. Schmalensee (Editors). Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2003, 309 pages, $35.00 hardcover. At MIT, Alfred Sloan had a vision of a different kind of business...

Martin Wilcox and Stephen Rush (Editors). The CCL Guide to Leadership in Action: How Managers and Organizations Can Improve the Practice of Leadership.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Martin Wilcox and Stephen Rush (Editors). The CCL Guide to Leadership in Action: How Managers and Organizations Can Improve the Practice of Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004, 285 pages, $34.00 hardcover. This book contains a...

Janine Waclawski and Allan H. Church (Editors). Organization Development: a Data-Driven Approach to Organizational Change.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Janine Waclawski and Allan H. Church (Editors). Organization Development: A Data-Driven Approach to Organizational Change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2002, 352 pages, $47.00 hardcover. Waclawski and Church have edited a valuable...

Benjamin Schneider and D. Brent Smith (Editors). Personality and Organizations.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Benjamin Schneider and D. Brent Smith (Editors). Personality and Organizations. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004, 439 pages, $49.95 hardcover. This is the most recent volume in LEA's Organization and Management Series, one...

Rob Cross and Andrew Parker. The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Rob Cross and Andrew Parker. The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004, 213 pages, $29.95 hardcover. Given the profile of the typical Personnel...

Ronald J. Alsop. The 18 Immutable Laws of Corporate Reputation: Creating, Protecting and Preparing Your Most Valuable Asset.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Ronald J. Alsop. The 18 Immutable Laws of Corporate Reputation: Creating, Protecting and Preparing Your Most Valuable Asset. New York: Free Press, 2004, 306 pages, $26.00 hardcover. I asked to review this book for two primary reasons, both...

Michael Treacy. Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It--No Matter What.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Michael Treacy. Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It--No Matter What. New York: Portfolio, 2003, 224 pages, $27.95 hardcover. This is an "interreview" that starts with a book review and ends with an author interview. I hope...

Lewis M. Branscomb and Philip E. Auerswald. Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risk.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Lewis M. Branscomb and Philip E. Auerswald. Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risk. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, 220 pages, $19.95 softcover. Both of the authors of this book have worked...

Joel Mokyr. The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Joel Mokyr. The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, 358 pages, $35.00 hardcover. For Mokyr, the central historical event of the modern era (since c. 1750) that...

Marshall Goldsmith, Howard Morgan, and Alexander J. Ogg (Editors). Leading Organizational Learning: Harnessing the Power of Knowledge.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Marshall Goldsmith, Howard Morgan, and Alexander J. Ogg (Editors). Leading Organizational Learning: Harnessing the Power of Knowledge. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, 2004, 360 pages, $39.00 hardcover. I think about learning a lot, maybe...

David Dooley and Joann Prause. The Social Costs of Underemployment: Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... David Dooley and Joann Prause. The Social Costs of Underemployment: Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 274 pages, $65.00 hardcover. There exists over a century of research...

John Hooker. Working Across Cultures.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... John Hooker. Working Across Cultures. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, 406 pages, $27.95 hardcover. Brooks Peterson. Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press,...

Bill Jensen. The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Bill Jensen. The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More. New York: Basic Books, 2003, 311 pages, $17.94 softcover. Sometimes you just want the answer. With chapter titles such as How to ignore most corporate...

Irvin H. Perline and Jona Goldschmidt. The Psychology and Law of Workplace Violence: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Employers.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Irvin H. Perline and Jona Goldschmidt. The Psychology and Law of Workplace Violence: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Employers. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 2003, 500 pages, $99.95 hardcover. Violence in the workplace...

Herman Aguinis (Editor). Test-Score Banding in Human Resources Selection.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Herman Aguinis (Editor). Test-Score Banding in Human Resources Selection. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004, 236 pages, $65.00 hardcover. Professor Aguinis, an energetic force in industrial psychology, has edited a volume about a timely subject...

Thomas W. Miller. Data and Text Mining: a Business Applications Approach.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Thomas W. Miller. Data and Text Mining: A Business Applications Approach. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2005, 192 pages, $46.67 paper. I appreciate a book that lands in my "zone of proximal development"--that efficiently...

Richard A. Berk. Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Richard A. Berk. Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003, 258 pages, $49.95 hardcover. Regression is perhaps the most widely used--some might say "abused"--class of statistical techniques in...

Barbara S. Plake, James C. Impara, and Robert A. Spies (Editors). The Fifteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Barbara S. Plake, James C. Impara, and Robert A. Spies (Editors). The Fifteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, 2003, 1,143 pages, $195.00 hardcover. Psychological tests are one of the...

Books and Materials Received *.
March 22, 2005... Augier, Mie and March, James G. (Editors). Models of a Man: Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Simon. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004, 553 pages, $45.00 hardcover. Barnett, Rosalind and Rivers, Caryl. Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are...