Franciska Krings

University of Lausanne | UNIL ·  Département de comportement organisationnel (OB)

We examine applicant faking as an adaptive response to the specific environment that applicants are confronted with. More specifically, we propose that applicants fake by adapting their responses to the culture of the hiring organization so that they display the personality profile that best matches the organization’s culture. In other words, they...

The use of social networking sites such as LinkedIn in recruitment is ubiquitous. This practice may hold risks for older job seekers. Not having grown up using the internet and having learned how to use social media only in middle adulthood may render them less versed in online self-presentation than younger job seekers. Results of this research sh...

Previous research has shown that evaluators react negatively to intense, high levels of self-promotion during the interview, in particular when displayed by female candidates, presumably because these behaviors violate the female gender stereotype of being modest and putting others first. We expand this focus on a single social category and examine...

Conversations about work-family conflict are commonplace. However, most of the conversation is based on how individuals can best manage work and family demands. Little is known about how others perceive and react towards individuals who go through this experience. Building on theories of social evaluation and stereotype maintenance, we hypothesized...

Many organizations are committed to age diversity and inclusion, aiming for a fair treatment and balanced representation of younger and older employees in all units of the organization. However, the continuing workplace discrimination against mature workers demonstrates that older employees are often excluded and remain underrepresented. Hence, org...

Older employees often face discrimination and exclusion from work teams. In two scenario studies, we tested the impact of age diversity statements on the representation and inclusion of older employees in teams. In Study 1 (N = 304), participants had to create a team and were either exposed to a diversity statement or not before selecting two teamm...

Asynchronous video interviews (AVIs) are a form of one-way, technology-mediated selection interview that can help streamline and increase flexibility in the hiring process and are used to hire millions of applicants per year. Although applicant reactions to AVIs in general tend to be more negative than with traditional interview modalities, AVIs ca...

Both in the research literature as well as in popular media, the topic of “work-life” balance receives much attention, particularly for the age group of middle-aged adults. There is evidence for both, positive and negative spillover effects across life domains. This chapter provides a theoretical and empirical overview of the different types of int...

Objectives: To explore how perceived disease threat and trust in institutions relate to vaccination intent, perceived effectiveness of official recommendations, and to othering strategies. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of Swiss adults in July 2020. Outcome variables were vaccination intent, perceived effectiveness of official recom...

Work-to-family conflict (WFC) is a pressing issue for many working parents, in particular for working mothers, and hence, understanding the factors that contribute to WFC is important. We examined gender-role attitudes as antecedents of working mothers' WFC, focusing on both working mothers' own and their husbands' gender-role attitudes. Building o...

Les comportements discriminatoires en entreprise sont encore une réalité bien présente. Les recherches passées ont démontré que les comportements discriminatoires adoptés par les membres d’une organisation ne sont pas toujours le résultat de leur propre volonté, mais de pression émanant de leurs supérieur.e.s hiérarchiques. Nous qualifions ce phéno...

This research examined the impact of facial age appearance on hiring, and impressions of fitness as the underlying mechanism. In two experimental hiring simulations, one with lay persons and one with Human Resource professionals, participants evaluated a chronologically older or younger candidate (as indicated by date of birth and age label) with e...

The increasingly aging population in most industrialized societies, coupled with the rather age-diverse current workforce makes discrimination against older employees a prevalent issue, especially in employment contexts. This renders research on ways for reducing this type of discrimination a particularly pressing concern. Drawing on theories of so...

Justice is a core fundamental theme for individuals in organizations. This study suggests that believing the world is just where one gets what one deserves, and deserves what one gets, is an important personal resource that helps maintain well-being at work. Further, it suggests that personal belief in a just world, but not general belief in a just...

The aim of this paper is to review recent research on negative and positive crossover from work to family and from family to work in couples. The results of the 58 included studies mainly highlight indirect crossover based on spillover processes and marital interactions. More specifically, they show that incumbents' positive and negative experience...

Dieses Buchkapitel vermittelt einen Überblick über die aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Befunde zur Wirksamkeit von Diversity Trainings. Es zeigt auf, dass diese Trainings - trotz ihrer sehr unterschiedlichen Ausgestaltung in der Praxis - im Prinzip wirksam sind. Das heißt, Diversity Trainings können Wissen und Fähigkeiten über den Inhalt und das Ziel...

Justice is a core fundamental theme for individuals in organizations. This study suggests that believing that the world is just where one gets what one deserves, and deserves what one gets, is an important personal resource that helps maintain wellbeing at work. Further, it suggests that personal belief in a just world, but not general belief in a...

Building on theories of impression formation based on faces, this research investigates the impact of job candidates’ facial age appearance on hiring as well as the underlying mechanism. In an experiment, participants decided whether to hire a fictitious candidate aged 50 years, 30 years or without age information. The candidate’s age was signaled...

We introduce perspective taking as an antecedent of third-party reactions to different forms of workplace deviance. Varying the perspective taken by third-parties (perpetrator; other’s perspective) and the type of workplace deviance (moderate organizational deviance; severe interpersonal deviance), we show that third-parties who take the perpetrato...

Job applicant faking, that is, consciously misrepresenting information during the selection process, is ubiquitous and a threat for the usefulness of various selection tools. Understanding antecedents of faking is thus of uttermost importance. Recent theories of faking highlight the central role of various forms of competition, for understanding wh...

We introduce perspective taking as an antecedent of third-party reactions to different forms of workplace deviance. Varying the perspective taken by third-parties (perpetrator; other’s perspective) and the type of workplace deviance (moderate organizational deviance; severe interpersonal deviance), we show that third-parties who take the perpetrato...

In the past years, several authors have proposed theoretical models of faking at selection. Although these models greatly improved our understanding of applicant faking, they mostly offer static approaches. In contrast, we propose a model of applicant faking derived from signaling theory, which describes faking as a dynamic process driven by applic...

This research examines employees' anticipation of social and self-sanctions as a self-regulatory mechanism linking workgroup climates and counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) and personality as a limit to these effects. A cross-level study with 158 employees from 26 workgroups demonstrated that in groups with a high compliance climate-a climate...

This research examines employees' anticipation of social and self-sanctions as a self-regulatory mechanism linking workgroup climates and counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) and personality as a limit to these effects. A cross-level study with 158 employees from 26 workgroups demonstrated that in groups with a high compliance climate-a climate...

The main purpose of this chapter is to present and to discuss the implementation and the main methodological characteristics, notably in terms of design and research protocol, sampling and data collection procedure via a mixed-mode approach, of our 7-year longitudinal study on professional trajectories. More specifically, adopting several psycholog...

Dieses Buchkapitel vermittelt einen Überblick über die aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Befunde zur Wirksamkeit von Diversity Trainings. Es zeigt auf, dass diese Trainings - trotz ihrer sehr unterschiedlichen Ausgestaltung in der Praxis - im Prinzip wirksam sind. Das heisst, Diversity Trainings können Wissen und Fähigkeiten über den Inhalt und das Ziel...

Recent literature evidences differential associations of personal and general just-world beliefs with constructs in the interpersonal domain. In line with this research, we examine the respective relationships of each just-world belief with the Five-Factor and the HEXACO models of personality in one representative sample of the working population o...

p>Dieses Buchkapitel vermittelt einen Überblick über die aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Befunde zur Wirksamkeit von Diversity Trainings. Es zeigt auf, dass diese Trainings - trotz ihrer sehr unterschiedlichen Ausgestaltung in der Praxis - im Prinzip wirksam sind. Das heisst, Diversity Trainings können Wissen und Fähigkeiten über den Inhalt und das Zi...

Les conflits interpersonnels au travail existent depuis la nuit des temps. Curieusement, les juristes n’y ont toutefois porté que peu d’attention. La prise de conscience assez récente de la nécessité de protéger la santé et la personnalité des travailleuses et travailleurs, les évolutions du droit international, ainsi que de nouvelles jurisprude...

We present an approach to teaching evidence-based management (EBMgt) that trains future managers how to produce local evidence. Local evidence is causally interpretable data, collected on-site in companies to address a specific business problem. Our teaching method is a variant of problem-based learning, a method originally developed to teach evide...

Immigrants play an increasingly important role in local labor markets. Not only do they grow steadily in number but also in cultural, educational, and skill diversity, underlining the necessity to distinguish between immigrant groups when studying discrimination against immigrants. We examined immigrant employees’ subtle discrimination experiences...

This research examines stereotypes associated with immigrant groups in Switzerland. In line with the stereotype content model, we expected immigrant groups to be perceived differentially on the dimensions of warmth and competence as a function of their national origin. Second, we expected the stereotype content to be predominantly mixed, that is, g...

This study, conducted with a representative sample of employed and unemployed adults living in Switzerland (N = 2002), focuses on work conditions (in terms of professional insecurity and job demands), career adaptability, and professional and general well-being. Analyses of covariance highlighted that both unemployed and employed participants with...

This research investigates differences in the stereotype content of immigrant groups between linguistic regions. We expected that immigrant groups who speak the local language of a specific linguistic region would be perceived as more competitive within this region than in another linguistic region. Further, we expected these differences would unde...

Employment discrimination against immigrants—the unfair behavioral biases against residents of a country who were born abroad, do not possess the local citizenship, and yet live there permanently—remains a vastly under-studied topic in industrial and organizational (I–O) psychology, despite several calls over the past 30 years for such research (Be...

Many models of (un)ethical decision making assume that people decide rationally and are in principle able to evaluate their decisions from a moral point of view. However, people might behave unethically without being aware of it. They are ethically blind. Adopting a sense making approach, we argue that ethical blindness results from a complex inter...

The 2009 H1N1 pandemic left a legacy of mistrust in the public relative to how outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases are managed. To prepare for future outbreaks, it is crucial to explore the phenomenon of public trust in the institutions responsible for managing disease outbreaks. We investigated the evolution of public trust in institutions d...

Building on an evolutionary approach to outgroup avoidance, this study shows relations between perceived disease salience and beliefs in the efficacy of avoiding foreigners as protective measures, in the context of a real-life pandemic risk; i.e., avian influenza. People for whom avian influenza was salient and who held unfavourable attitudes towar...

Much research studies how individuals cope with disease threat by blaming out-groups and protecting the in-group. The model of collective symbolic coping (CSC) describes four stages by which representations of a threatening event are elaborated in the mass media: awareness, divergence, convergence, and normalization. We used the CSC model to predic...

Lay perceptions of collectives (e.g., groups, organizations, countries) implicated in the 2009 H1N1 outbreak were studied. Collectives serve symbolic functions to help laypersons make sense of the uncertainty involved in a disease outbreak. We argue that lay representations are dramatized, featuring characters like heroes, villains and victims. In...

Drawing on theories of stereotype content and role congruity, this research investigated the role of stereotypes for employment discrimination against older candidates. Study 1 investigated the content of stereotypes about older workers, focusing on warmth and competence as the two core dimensions in social judgement. As predicted, older workers we...

Résumé Lorsqu’il postule pour un poste de cadre, un candidat âgé de 48 à 50 ans a sept fois moins de chance d’être invité à un entretien qu’un candidat âgé de 28 à 30 ans. Or le nombre de travailleurs âgés sur le marché du travail va augmenter, et l’âge est aujourd’hui cité par les candidats comme le motif principal de discrimination à l’embauche....

Following the recent avian influenza and pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreaks, public trust in medical and political authorities is emerging as a new predictor of compliance with officially recommended protection measures. In a two-wave longitudinal survey of adults in French-speaking Switzerland, trust in medical organizations longitudinally predicted a...

Integrating evolutionary and social representations theories, the current study examines the relationship between perceived disease threat and exclusionary immigration attitudes in the context of a potential avian influenza pandemic. This large-scale disease provides a realistic context for investigating the link between disease threat and immigrat...

This study examined the influence of two organizational context variables, codes of conduct and supervisor advice, on personnel decisions in an experimental simulation. Specifically, we studied personnel evaluations and decisions in a situation where codes of conduct conflict with supervisor advice. Past studies showed that supervisors’ advice to p...

We investigate the relation between personality (Big Five) and positive and negative life events as predictors of subjective well-being (SWB) in a sample of 766 young, middle-aged, and old adults. Analyses comprised data on personality, SWB, and reconstructed positive and negative life events. Results for the total sample indicate a strong relation...

This study demonstrated relations between men's perceptions of organizational justice and increased sexual harassment proclivities. Respondents reported higher likelihood to sexually harass under conditions of low interactional justice, suggesting that sexual harassment likelihood may increase as a response to perceived injustice. Moreover, the rel...

This study introduces an diversity training for managers and presents a study that assesses training effectiveness. Aims of the training were to positively influence attitudes toward diversity management, to increase awareness for diversity and to develop competences for dealing with diversity issues at work. Eighty-seven managers of different orga...

Nous avons étudié les représentations de l’entretien structuré chez les recruteurs. Dans l’Etude 1, 90 recruteurs ont été interviewés. Ils définissent la « structure » principalement comme un schéma ou une liste de questions. Les termes « structuré » et « non structuré » ont des connotations différentes, ce qui peut créer un biais de désirabilité s...

Am 18.08.2006 trat das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (AGG) in Kraft. Mit diesem Gesetz setzt die Bundesrepublik Deutschland die europäischen Richtlinien1 zum Schutz vor Diskriminierung um. In diesem Beitrag berichten wir über Studien aus dem europäischen und angloamerikanischen Raum, die für das Thema Altersdiskriminierung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt...

We studied recruiters' representations of the structured interview. In Study 1, 90 recruiters were interviewed. They define "structure" mainly as a schema or list of questions. The terms "structured" and "unstructured" also have different connotations. This can create a social desirability bias in surveys on selection practices, causing an overesti...

This study investigated the influence of changing socio-historical conditions on personal goals in young adulthood. It was hypothesized that socio-historical changes related to individualization have resulted in shifts in goal pursuit. Participants from three birth cohorts reconstructed their important goals when they were 20years old. Members of t...

This study investigated attitudes towards older employees, perceived age discrimination, and HR practices (personnel development and reward) in 240 employees. Attitudes toward older employees were largely positive, thus supporting the notion that attitudes toward older employees are becoming increasingly positive. Older employees' attitudes towards...

This study examined the impact of applicant ethnicity, job type, and prejudice on evaluation biases and intentions to interview in an experimental simulation. We suggest that bias and discrimination are more likely when foreign applicants who belong to disliked ethnic groups apply for jobs that require high interpersonal skills, and when raters are...

Zusammenfassung. Wir gehen der Frage nach, inwieweit Diskriminierung älterer Arbeitskräfte in deutschsprachigen Veröffentlichungen aus dem Bereich der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie thematisiert wird. Nach einer systematischen Literaturrecherche in einschlägigen Fachzeitschriften (Psychologie und Praxis, Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisa...

162 Swiss employees were surveyed to assess knowledge of and attitudes toward different types of affirmative action programs (AAPs) for women. Findings show that knowledge of AAPs was limited and AAPs were most frequently associated with child care measures. Attitudes toward opportunity enhancement programs, especially toward child care, were more...

The influence of positive and negative associations with age on memory through automatic and controlled processes was investigated in three experiments using Jacoby's (1991) process dissociation procedure. Experiments 1 and 2 (with younger people) demonstrated that negative associations with older people influenced recognition memory performance th...

The possibility of a historically determined shift in developmental tasks of young adulthood was investigated. Personal goals at age 25 of participants from three cohorts spanning twentieth-century Swiss history were studied in an interview combining current and retrospective measures. Members of the oldest cohort (Between the Wars) were born bewee...

Human development is often understood as an interplay between biological, sociohistorical, and social factors, as well as individual developmental actions. However, historical influences on development have rarely been investigated. The present study discusses societal change in the course of this century and investigates its impact on the life cou...

To determine the short- and long-term effects of resistance training on muscle strength, psychological well-being, control-beliefs, cognitive speed and memory in normally active elderly people. 46 elderly people (mean age 73.2 years; 18 women and 28 men), were randomly assigned to training and control groups (n=23 each). Pre- and post-tests were ad...

Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] was discovered in 1962. Lp(a) consists of an LDL particle linked to apolipoprotein(a). The latter shows large genetically determined interindividual variation in size. The close relationship of apo(a) to plasminogen suggests interactions with coagulation. Epidemiological studies established Lp(a) as an independent cardiovascu...

Diss. phil.-hist. Bern (kein Austausch). Literaturverz.