Barbara A. Fritzsche

• University of Central Florida

Introduction Murphy and DeNisi (2021) conclude in their commentary that the current literature does not provide sufficient evidence that age stereotypes impact personnel decisions. We believe that their conclusion is overstated. In this paper, we consider the value of methodologies used in past research and make methodological suggestions for futur...

Taking a worker-centric approach, with evidence based on the experiences of working individuals, the current study examines the age-related stereotypes of jobs, the characteristics of age-stereotyped jobs, and the consequences of occupying them. In Study 1, we utilize samples of working adults from the US, Turkey, and Malaysia to establish validati...

The Party exercise, found on many career guidance websites and published annually in the best‐selling job‐hunting book What Color Is Your Parachute? (Bolles, 2020), claims to provide a quick and easy way to determine a person's Holland RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional) code. We examined whether this com...

Reactions toward performance feedback have critical implications for organizations and are of great interest to practitioners. Current measurement of employee experiences with feedback intervention varies widely and the literature is flooded with untested, coarse measures that largely neglect the complexity of feedback intervention. A new scale was...

This chapter identifies challenges faculty face when teaching in a terminal industrial-organizational psychology master’s program. The authors discuss how faculty, particularly new/junior faculty, can deal with these issues to become productive in teaching, research, service, consulting, and shaping program culture. The authors offer suggestions fo...

The development and validation of the CATA trainee reactions measure used in our article. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000503.supp The primary article can be found at: https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000503

Despite the common belief that “training is only as effective as the trainer providing it” (Osborn, 2018, para. 1), training theory tends to underemphasize the trainer and instead focuses on training content and design as sources of training effectiveness. In this article, we examine whether the role of the trainer should be more central to trainin...

We introduce an approach toward predicting intranational variance in individualism-collectivism, via utilization of ecological cultural practices and psychological cultural values. Using the climato-economic theory of culture, we modeled intranational collectivism using four measures, including normative behavioral and spatial collectivism practice...

Based upon theory on successful aging at work and the social identity of age, we hypothesized interactive effects of sex, objective chronological age, and subjective psychological/organizational age on age-based stereotype ratings of older workers, psychological well-being including both burnout and self-esteem, and behavioral self-reports of perce...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on developing and validating a multidimensional measure of work-related age-based stereotypes (WAS) scale. Design/methodology/approach – Based upon a review of the literature, a three-dimensional stereotype content model including both negative (incompetence, inadaptability) and positive (warmth) ste...

Drawing from theories in both the social and cross-cultural psychology domains, this article provides a theoretical framework that specifies the mechanisms by which age and culture interact to predict age discrimination, across multiple levels of culture, including societal, organizational, and individual levels of analyses. The prime facets of cul...

The past few decades in the United States have seen monumental social reforms and demographic shifts that have led to an increasingly diverse workforce. Organizations have since invested substantial amounts of money and resources into diversity efforts in the hopes of using diversity to increase organizational performance. Despite theoretical argum...

Much of the research on the effects of age in the workplace has ignored the role of contextual factors, and the intersection of multiple group identities. In seeking to address these shortcomings, we provide a theoretical integration and review. First, we review the literature on contextual factors that determine age salience. We then provide a rev...

A laboratory experiment was conducted on a convenient sample of N = 724 introductory Psychology students from the southeastern United States, to test the effectiveness of a dual identity recategorization intervention when applied on age bias toward a hypothetical older adult, when applied on individuals both low and high on the spectrum of ageism,...

Much of the research on the effects of age in the workplace has ignored the role of contextual factors, and the intersection of multiple group identities. In seeking to address these shortcomings, we provide a theoretical integration and review. First, we review the literature on contextual factors that determine age salience. We then provide a rev...

This study examined age discrimination in between‐ vs. within‐career job transitions. We expected that older workers transitioning into a new field would experience greater age discrimination than those who change jobs within the same field, particularly when amount of prior job experience is not made salient, and particularly when decision‐makers...

Various types of organizations must manage rapidly changing operational contexts. To respond to these demands, organizations are relying more heavily on team-based work arrangements. Effectively managing such performance requires a systematic, broad approach to measuring team effectiveness that is comprehensive and sound, yet unobtrusive. One aspec...

A policy capturing study was conducted to determine if résuméprofile judgments are generalizable to judgments of actual résumés. Forty recruiters judged 60 résumés or corresponding profiles on interview suitability. When profiles were judged, more variance in suitability judgments was accounted for, there was higher agreement among recruiters, the...

This study investigated the generalizability of the Global Assessment of Relational Functioning (GARF) Scale. Found in an appendix of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders under "Criteria Sets for Axes Provided for Future Study," the GARF Scale provides a global rating of a relational unit (family or couple). Thirty-two raters a...

Understanding the factors responsible for successful interactions between cultures has been an ongoing investigation among anthropologists, social workers, and organizational psychologists. The need for employees who are able to function effectively across cultures has resulted in a great deal of research examining which factors enable expatriate e...

Concerns that the military as a whole is not prepared to conduct operations in a way that understands other cultures has sparked a surge of research into areas related to cross-cultural competence. Instances of stereotyping, racism, and abuses of power by military members have showcased the ways in which the U.S. military might alienate the local p...

This study examined the effects of stereotype threat and pacing on older adult training outcomes. Older adults (N = 51; M age = 71 years) were randomly assigned to stereotype threat and pacing conditions and completed computerized library training. Contrary to expectations, stereotype threat was found to improve performance significantly on both tr...

This study extends research on the good mother stereotype by examining students’ perceptions of other students who return to school after having a child. Undergraduate students attending either community college or a 4-year southeastern university within the United States were asked to review a vignette in which a mother’s decision to return to col...

In modem military and civilian organizations, teams are increasingly composed of members from very different cultural backgrounds. This heterogeneity in cultural composition poses a unique set of challenges on the process of building and maintaining effective teams. This paper describes the concept of friction points in multicultural team performan...

On November 7, 1991, Earvin (“Magic”) Johnson, Jr., announced that he was HIV positive. At the time of this announcement, the authors had just finished collecting data on subjects’ willingness to help a person with the AIDS virus (PWA). These preannouncement data were compared to data collected 1 week, 2/12 months, and months after the announcement...

This study extends prior research on the good-mother stereotype by examining the influence of mothers’ role satisfaction on perceptions. Students read a brief description of a mother and rated her commitment to motherhood and communality. As predicted, the mother who remained home with her child and who was satisfied with staying home was rated hig...

E-learning, an instructional strategy for imparting needed knowledge, skills, and attitudes in organizations, is here to stay. Its viability, effectiveness, and potential to return tangible benefits to organizations depend largely on how it is designed, delivered, and evaluated. This article provides a comprehensive review of the state of the art o...

In this paper, we review the literature on learner control and discuss the implications that increased control may have for training in e-learning environments. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of the learner control literature, focusing on adults and workplace training. We begin by reviewing the literature on learner...

The widespread availability of the Internet has revolutionized the way organizations train their workforces. With e-learning methods, learning can take place on-demand, and trainees can be given greater control over their learning than ever before. This increased control has the potential to improve training effectiveness. However, the failure of m...

A policy capturing approach was used to exam- ine the advising variables that contribute to student satisfaction. Students (N = 468) rated 48 scenar- ios in which advising approach, relationship, advi- sor gender, emotional nature of the relationship, and type of advisor were manipulated. Results show that being known to the advisor, having a profe...

This study examined 145 students' course grades and scores on a standardised achievement test (the Area Concentration Achievement Test (ACAT) in Psychology) following completion of web-based, web-enhanced or classroom courses in basic learning. We found that students in web-based courses had lower course grades than those in either classroom-based...

This study examined the relation between academic procrastination tendency and student writing success. We found that the tendency to procrastinate on writing tasks was associated with general anxiety, anxiety about writing the paper, writing the paper later than usual, less satisfaction with writing the paper, and lower grades. Additionally, recei...

This study explored the value of using Holland's theory of vocational personality types and work environments for improving predictions of personality–performance relations. Upper level undergraduates representing the RIASEC environments completed the Self-Directed Search and a measure of the Five-Factor Model of personality that were used to predi...

This study examined the usefulness of the NEO PI-R Positive Presentation Management (PPM) scale for detecting response distortion in employment contexts. In study 1, personality and performance data from 90 customer service representatives were used to examine the possible moderating effect of positive presentation management on the personality–per...

The arousal: cost-reward model of bystander intervention developed by Piliavin, Dovidio, Gaertner and Clark in 1981 was tested using a within-subjects “policy capturing” methodology. Four hundred and forty nine participants read 50 scenarios and reported the likelihood they would offer help. Seventy-six percent of the participants' helping judgment...

Within the framework of Holland's theory, we examined the use of person-environment congruence in predicting job performance for a sample of customer service representatives. It was predicted that: (1) Congruence scores based on specific environment classification derived by job analytic methods would correlate more highly with performance than con...

The Continuous Visual Memory Test (CVMT) employs complex ambiguous designs and a recognition format to assess visual memory. The CVMT has proven sensitive to effects of head trauma, Alzheimer's Disease, unilateral right-hemisphere CVA, and normal aging. Recently, an alternate form for the CVMT was developed. This study examined the equivalence of F...

The experience sampling method and palm-top computers were used to obtain 75-100 randomly timed in situ assessments of 11 mood-related items from 54 Ss over 12-14 days. The variability in the distribution of an S's responses to each item was used as an estimate of intrasubject mood variability. Mood variability was stable across time (average r > ....

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of South Florida, 1993. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-76).