Personnel Psychology articles from September 2003

Personnel Psychology archives from September 2003

International award for Personnel Psychology.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2003... Personnel Psychology has once again been awarded an Emerald Golden Page Award. This marks the third time this journal has been so honored by Emerald (formerly Anbar). This year's award was given in the Research Implication category....

Errata.
September 22, 2003... Carl Thoresen's name was mispelled in the Volume 56, issue 2 Table of contents. Personnel Psychology regrets the error.

International validity generalization of GMA and cognitive abilities: a European community meta-analysis.
September 22, 2003... This article reports on a series of meta-analyses into the criterion validity of general mental ability (GMA) and specific cognitive ability tests for predicting job performance ratings and training success in the European Community (EC)....

Reported incidence rates of work-related sexual harassment in the United States: using meta-analysis to explain reported rate disparities.
September 22, 2003... This study presents a meta-analytic review of the incidence of sexual harassment in the U.S. The impact of 3 main moderator variables (type of survey used, sampling technique, and the type of work environment in which the study was conducted)...

Time matters in team performance: effects of member familiarity, entrainment, and task discontinuity on speed and quality.
September 22, 2003... We compared the speed and quality of performance for familiar, initially unfamiliar but continuing, and one-shot (single session) teams. We also proposed and observed entrainment effects for task time limits. Over the course of weekly sessions...

Action training for charismatic leadership: two evaluations of studies of a commercial training module on inspirational communication of a vision.
September 22, 2003... An action training program that teaches inspirational communication of a vision as part of a training of charismatic leadership for managers is presented (1 1/2 days) and evaluated in 2 studies (N = 25 and N = 22). We used the research design...

Investment in work and family roles: a test of identity and utilitarian motives.
September 22, 2003... This study compared identity and utilitarian motives as predictors of time investment in work and family roles, using structural equation modeling with a sample of 623 working men and women. We tested within-role and cross-role relationships as...

Web-based and paper-and-pencil testing of applicants in a proctored setting: are personality, biodata, and situational judgment tests comparable?
September 22, 2003... This quasi-experimental study compares the equivalence of proctored Web-based tests to paper-and-pencil tests in a selection setting. The predictor battery was composed of measures of Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Emotional Stability, a...

James Hoopes. False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas are Bad for Business Today.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... James Hoopes. False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2003, 352 pages, $27.50. Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak with H. James Wilson....

Joseph A. Raelin. Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2003, 290 pages, $22.95 softcover. In the last few years, I've seen a growing interest in a new leadership paradigm known by a number of labels such as "leadership at all levels," or shared,...

Dennis Sherwood. Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager's Guide to Applying Systems Thinking.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... London: Nicholas Brealey, 2002, 346 pages, $29.95 softcover. We all studied systems theory in college, right? Considering the interrelationships of organizational systems, how these systems impact one another and develop a balance (or not)...

Michael F. Broom. The Infinite Organization: Celebrating the Positive Use of Power in Organizations.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Palo Alto, CA: Davies-Black, 2002, 176 pages, $25.95. In this post-Ertron, post-WorldCom environment, I have trouble imagining a book with a catchier title. However, the true focus of this book is found in part of the subtitle, Positive Use...

Robert Galford and Anne Seibold Drapeau. The Trusted Leader: Bringing Out the Best in Your People and Your Company.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: The Free Press, 2003, 272 pages, $25.00. In The Trusted Leader: Bringing Out the Best in Your People and Your Company, Galford and Drapeau use an engaging style to share the "cumulative wisdom of [their] own experience and [their]...

Peter J. Frost. Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003, 256 pages, $27.50 hardcover. The premise of this book is that organizations and their members produce "toxins" or emotional pain in their day-to-day functioning. If these toxins aren't handled...

Allen C. Bluedorn. The Human Organization of Time: Temporal Realities and Experience.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002, 367 pages, $33.00. The movie The Hours (Hare, Daldry, & Rudin, 2002) deals with the protagonists' struggle to reconcile their life situations with "the hours" that have passed and the hours...

Gerhard Sonnert. Ivory Bridges: Connecting Science and Society.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2002, 227 pages, $30.00. When the book editor inquired about my potential interest in reviewing this book, he indicated that someone with a "healthy skepticism" about the impact of science on practice would be best...

Rodney L. Lowman (Editor). The California School of Organizational Studies Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002, 836 pages, $100.00. Most business executives (and many organizational consultants too!) are likely to assume that "consulting psychology" is a generic term applicable to all consultants whose practice is...

Leon de Caluwe and Hans Vermaak. Learning to Change: A Guide for Organization Change Agents.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003, 330 pages, $44.95. The field of planned organizational change was long equated with organization development (OD). OD proponents were upfront with the bona fides of their approach: full...

Wayne F. Cascio. Responsible Restructuring: Creative and Profitable Alternatives to Layoffs.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2002, 126 pages, $27.95. In this short but worthwhile book, the author argues that layoffs have a generally dysfunctional impact on organizations, and that they should be turned to as a last resort, rather...

Hermina Ibarra. Working Identity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Boston: Harvard Business, 2003, 224 pages, $26.95. The book title is indeed attractive to academics involved in research topics like self-image development, work roles and identity, and work motivation determinants, as well as...

Daniel C. Feldman. Work Careers: A Developmental Perspective.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002, 392 pages, $49.00. Work Careers is the 17th book in the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology's Frontiers Series. As typical of many of the books in the series, it is edited by a leading...

David Sears. Successful Talent Strategies: Achieving Superior Business Results through Market-Focused Staffing.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: AMACOM, 2003, 248 pages, $29.95. The selection of successful employees has long been a goal of I-O psychology. Over the years, this field has made many substantial contributions to the effort to select employees who will succeed...

Michael T. Brannick and Edward Levine. Job Analysis: Methods, Research, and Applications for Human Resource Management in the New Millennium.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002, $79.85 cloth, $34.95 softcover. We all have pet theories, now don't we? Why just this last millennium, I was killing time and developed a pet theory on job analysis: You will never see a job analyst with...

Joseph J. Martocchio. Employee Benefits: A Primer for Human Resource Professionals.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2003, 402 pages, $74.55 softcover. Martocchio has taken on a very large task, trying to develop a "primer" on employee benefits in a format appropriate for "current human resource practitioners, employees who...

Robert L. Heneman. Strategic Reward Management: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Greenwich, CT: Information Age, 2002, 520 pages, $29.95 softcover. Outstanding! The next compensation bible! The new required supplement for graduate compensation courses! Any or all of the above can be used to describe Heneman's Strategic...

Michael Zanko (Editor). The Handbook of Human Resource Management Policies and Practices in Asia-Pacific Economies.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002, 735 pages, $140.00. "How are human resources managed in firms and agencies across the Asia-Pacific?" This is the broad question the editor and the authors of this book attempt to answer. Information is...

Steve M. Jex. Organizational Psychology: A Scientist-Practitioner Approach.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002, 546 pages, $119.00 hardcover. Let me begin with what my brother the CPA calls "full disclosure," a concept his profession created and only recently rediscovered (to the regret of 401K holders...

Dail L. Fields. Taking the Measure of Work: A Guide to Validated Scales for Organizational Research and Diagnosis.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002, 352 pages, $69.95 hardcover. Taking the Measure of Work is not a book that you sit down and read. Rather, it is a reference source, much like a dictionary or encyclopedia, that you consult for a...

Books and materials received *.
September 22, 2003... Alkhafaji, Abass E Strategic Management: Formulation, Implementation, and Controlin a Dynamic Environment. New York: Haworth, 2003, 317 pages, $69.95 cloth, $39.95 softcover. Barrett, Lisa Feldman and Salovey, Peter (Editors). The Wisdom in...