Alana Cober

• HRIA at National Aeronautics and Space Administration

We often lament that certain individuals at work simply "don't seem to get it," and therefore it is very difficult to get them to change. While everybody else may see a co-worker's incompetence, the employee is clueless about his or her serious development need. It may not be enough to provide feedback to this type of employee and hope that perform...

We often lament that certain individuals at work simply "don't seem to get it," and therefore it is very difficult to get them to change. While everybody else may see a co-worker's incompetence, the employee is clueless about his or her serious development need. It may not be enough to provide feedback to this type of employee and hope that perform...

Organizational web sites have become a primary source of information for job seekers. To date, no research has attempted to determine which aspects of organizational web sites most influence job-seeker attraction to an organization. The current paper reports the results of two studies that examined how perceptions of organizational web site content...

Miller and Woehr’s Multidimensional Work Ethic Profile (as described in Miller, Woehr, & Hudspeth, 2002) was used to examine differences in work ethic across career stages. Participants in the trial stage scored significantly higher on the hard work and delay of gratification dimensions, but participants in the stabilization and maintenance stages...

The use of mini role play simulations was proposed as a means of collecting predictor data in a low-cost, time-efficient, and reliable manner. Mini role play simulations were developed for the purpose of measuring sales ability. In order to evaluate the efficacy of using the mini role play simulations, a concurrent validation study was conducted wi...

Differences in the perception of sexual harassment depending on discourse medium (traditional classroom setting versus online) and gender were examined via survey with 270 undergraduate participants. It was hypothesized that (1) participants would differ in their evaluations of similar behaviors when they were described as occurring in a traditiona...

The impact of leadership on group performance was investigated in the context of a semiautonomous work team environment. The relationship between group performance and team leadership, as exhibited by the designated, internal leader, was moderated by team size. Team leadership, as rated by team members, was related to the managers’ ratings of quali...

The relationship between team cognitive ability and team performance was studied in a real-world, semi- autonomous work team environment. Four models (i.e., additive, conjunctive, disjunctive, and heterogeneity of variance) of the relationship between team member cognitive ability and performance were investigated. Group leaders provided performanc...