Michael Burke

Michael Burke
Tulane University | TU · A.B. Freeman School of Business

BA, MS, PhD

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January 1991 - present
Tulane University
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  • Lawrence Martin Chair in Business

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In this investigation, we tested hypotheses concerning how external validity, in relation to leadership and teamwork, was affected as participants moved from organizational to academic settings. Participants consisted of working business students (N = 159) from two countries, Peru and the United States, who adopted leader/teammate roles across sett...
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A variety of collective phenomena are understood to exist to the extent that workers agree on their perceptions of the phenomena, such as perceptions of their organization’s climate or perceptions of their team’s mental model. Researchers conducting group-level studies of such phenomena measure individuals’ perceptions via surveys and then aggregat...
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(1) Background: In this case study, we examined the safety-training-related experiences of individuals from six racial-ethnic groups (Asians (Vietnamese), Blacks, Hispanics, Isleños, Native Americans, and Whites) involved in the cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (2) Methods: We assessed, via a survey, 495 disaster response trainees’ react...
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It is of growing concern that supervisors sometimes engage in destructive leadership behavior to undermine their subordinates, which exacts a psychological toll on these employees. How can employees mitigate and overcome the adverse psychological effects of supervisor undermining? Invoking theories of personal agency and social competencies, this s...
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In this investigation involving 227 lone professional truck drivers from a national transportation company in a low and moderate-income country (LMIC), Colombia, a multidimensional model of drivers’ safety performance and expectations concerning how safety performance dimensions would predict hard braking were evaluated. The results supported a mul...
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In Study 1 of this two-part investigation, we present a “central tendency approach” and procedures for assessing overall interrater agreement across multiple groups. We define parameters for mean group agreement and construct bootstrapped confidence intervals around the mean population parameters for r<sub>WG</sub>, AD, and ICC(1). In Study 2, we e...
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Purpose In this investigation, we argue for why and how available intraclass correlation coefficients and other types of reliability estimates can be employed as sample-based reliability estimates within primary and meta-analytic studies when relationships between group-level phenomena are of interest. Design/Methodology/Approach Group-level corre...
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ID: 2017-197 In response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster and resulting Gulf of Mexico oil spill (GOS), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) facilitated the conduct of health and safety training and development of training materials for over 147,000 cleanup workers (e.g., on-shore and off-shore volunteers, technical spec...
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Starting with initiatives dating back to the mid-1800s, we provide a high-level review of the key trends and developments in the application of applied psychology to the field of occupational safety. Factory laws, basic worker compensation, and research on accident proneness comprised much of the early work. Thus, early research and practice very m...
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This chapter focuses on how modifying individual and team characteristics through safety training affects the exhibition of safe work behaviors and reduction of negative outcomes such as accidents, illnesses, and injuries. Initially, it presents a general framework for studying relations between worker characteristics affected by safety training pr...
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Research concerning why and how to promote social interaction and learner reflection in management education and training is somewhat underdeveloped. In this investigation, we used a predictive, quasi-experimental design with 246 students from a business school in Colombia who were enrolled in 10 sections of a leadership course to examine expected...
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Staff rides offer many advantages for developing managers and followers, yet they are relatively underutilized in management learning and education. Staff rides are planned learning events that recreate a significant historical incident while engaging participants in open reflection and dialogue. Developed over a century ago, military staff rides h...
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.80 and Beyond: Recommendations for Disattenuating Correlations - Volume 7 Issue 4 - Michael J. Burke, Ronald S. Landis, Maura I. Burke
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We repurpose the staff ride for management research and practice. Staff rides recreate a historical event for the purpose of understanding organizational phenomena through observation, reflection and discussion. An interactive exemplar is used to demonstrate how learning and decision-making transpired in a U.S. Forestry work crew before and after a...
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Qualitative research offers a range of methodologies for studying organizational behavior. Four presentations outline the strengths and limitations associated with using different qualitative research methodologies and offer insights for adapting these methodologies to conduct research and practice that will advance our understanding and management...
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Despite the widespread use of interrater agreement statistics for multilevel modeling and other types of research, the existing guidelines for inferring the statistical significance of interrater agreement are quite limited. They are largely relevant only under conditions that numerous researchers have argued rarely exist. Here we address this prob...
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The current study meta-analytically examined the gendered nature of lateral and upward influence attempts. Drawing from gender role theory, we investigated the extent to which the gender of the influence actor affected the use and effectiveness of influence behaviors. The role of a gendered environmental context was also examined. The results provi...
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Based on earlier taxonomies of group composition models, aggregating data from individual-level responses to operationalize group-level constructs is a common aspect of management research. The present study contributes to the literature on group composition models by quantitatively integrating the climate literature via meta-analysis to determine...
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Purpose – Business schools have been under fire for their alleged inefficacy in developing students’ managerial skills in MBA programs. On the basis of extant learning theories, the purpose of this paper is to propose a reconsideration of learning goals and assessment procedures for managerial skill development within MBA education. Design/methodo...
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Currently, guidelines do not exist for applying interrater agreement indices to the vast majority of methodological and theoretical problems that organizational and applied psychology researchers encounter. For a variety of methodological problems, we present critical values for interpreting the practical significance of observed average deviation...
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The authors present and illustrate the research staff ride—the re-creation of a historical event for the purpose of understanding organizational phenomena through observation, reflection, and discussion. Staff rides make unique contributions to research through the independent analysis of events outside organizations by content experts who collecti...
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This study examines the role of customer retention as a mediator in the service climate–firm performance chain. Using a predictive design that involves data collected from 1,500 automotive service stores from 12,518 employees and approximately 30,000 customers, a model linking service climate (a concern for employees and customers), customer satisf...
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On the basis of hypotheses derived from social and experiential learning theories, we meta-analytically investigated how safety training and workplace hazards impact the development of safety knowledge and safety performance. The results were consistent with an expected interaction between the level of engagement of safety training and hazardous ev...
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At the individual level of analysis, we address how work environment perceptions (psychological climate) are conceptualized and measured with respect to three perspectives in the applied psychology literature: (1) social constructionist, (2) general psychological, and (3) multiple stakeholder. Similarities and differences between these perspectives...
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While research on workplace safety spans across disciplines in medicine, public health, engineering, psychology, and business, research to date has not adopted a multilevel theoretical perspective that integrates theoretical issues and findings from various disciplines. In this chapter, we integrate research on workplace safety from a variety of di...
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Performance in situations where individuals from multiple countries are operating in a foreign culture is an underexplored domain of organizational behavior. We test hypothesized relationships between Big Five personality factors and dimensions of international performance using a sample of 232 international business students from 14 countries stud...
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Recent conceptual and methodological advances in behavioral safety research afford an opportunity to integrate past and recent research findings. Building on theoretical models of worker performance and work climate, this study quantitatively integrates the safety literature by meta-analytically examining person- and situation-based antecedents of...
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The current study tested a model of group effectiveness in which emotional conflict, negative affective tone in groups, and group mean agreeableness were proposed as key antecedent variables. Data collected from 84 project groups supported the proposition that group-level agreeableness was significantly related with emotional conflict, and that emo...
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The Nature of General Safety Performance and Safety KnowledgeLearning Theories and Their Implications for Safety and Health TrainingApplications of Learning Theories to Safety and Health TrainingExtending what We KnowReferences
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Using data from 68 organizations embedded within 14 nations, we examined hypotheses concerning the moderating roles of national culture and organizational climate on the transfer of training to the work context. A dimension of national culture, uncertainty avoidance, moderated the transfer of safety training with regard to reducing accidents and in...
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Drawing on contemporary theories of learning, we discuss the theoretical role of dialogue in the development of skilled activity. More specifically, we argue for why intrapersonal and interpersonal dialogue and the action-focused reflection it can engender would be expected to (a) enhance knowledge and skill development, (b) force individuals to in...
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This paper presents a review and critique of the validity generalization research based on the correlation model. Emphasis was placed on integrating the applied validity generalization studies as well as the computer simulation studies which have tested the accuracy of the various validity generalization procedures in estimating the mean and varian...
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Brogden's equations for employment test utility analysis have been used in conjunction with direct range restriction correction formulas, because the data used typically come from selected applicant (incumbent) samples. We show that the use of direct range restriction corrections in utility analysis is not needed. Identical results can be obtained...
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We sought to determine the relative effectiveness of different methods of worker safety and health training aimed at improving safety knowledge and performance and reducing negative outcomes (accidents, illnesses, and injuries). Ninety-five quasi-experimental studies (n=20991) were included in the analysis. Three types of intervention methods were...
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Evidence of science-practice knowledge gaps among managers (Rynes, Colbert, & Brown, 2002), coupled with major changes occurring in the workplace over the last ten years, suggest the need for human resources practitioners to become as current as possible on how research findings can assist in improving the management of HR. Nine articles in this sp...
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Previous meta-analytic examinations of group cohesion and performance have focused primarily on contextual factors. This study examined issues relevant to applied researchers by providing a more detailed analysis of the criterion domain. In addition, the authors reinvestigated the role of components of cohesion using more modern meta-analytic metho...
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Using training history data and supervisory ratings of 133 hazardous waste workers' safety performance collected within two organizations in the U.S. nuclear waste industry, this study examined organizational climate for the transfer of safety training as a moderator of relationships between safety knowledge and safety performance. The trend in the...
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Based on the cross-cultural adjustment, education, and job performance literatures, an international student performance taxonomy is proposed and tested with a sample of 272 business exchange students from nine Asian, European, and North American countries studying in Mexico. Results of confirmatory factor analyses provided tentative support for an...
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We tested competing models of group effectiveness for 71 distance collaboration groups (equipos) comprised of 200 Mexican business students solving cases via electronic communication in a virtual education program. For one model, task cohesion was specified as an exogenous variable leading to collective efficacy and, ultimately, group effectiveness...
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The authors demonstrated that the most common statistical significance test used with r(WG)-type interrater agreement indexes in applied psychology, based on the chi-square distribution, is flawed and inaccurate. The chi-square test is shown to be extremely conservative even for modest, standard significance levels (e.g., .05). The authors present...
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This article presents a clarification of Burke and Dunlap’s (2002) instructions for interpreting the statistical significance of observed average deviation (AD) interrater agreement values. An explanation is offered for how to use Burke and Dunlap’s critical AD values to determine statistical significance of observed AD values. In addition, Burke a...
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In this investigation, we report the results of 2 studies designed to (a) conduct confirmatory factor analytic tests of a model of general safety performance with performance ratings from 550 coworker appraisals (Study 1), and (b) examine hypothesized relationships between indicators of breadth and depth of knowledge constructs and confirmed safety...
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The authors present guidelines for establishing a useful range for interrater agreement and a cutoff for acceptable interrater agreement when using Burke, Finkelstein, and Dusig’s average deviation (AD) index as well as critical values for tests of statistical significance with the AD index. Under the assumption that judges respond randomly to an i...
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This study meta-analytically tested hypotheses concerning factors that affect sex discrimination in simulated employment contexts. These hypotheses, derived from the social psychological literature on stereotyping, predicted that salience of applicant sex, job sex-type, sex of rater, and amount of job-relevant information would affect discriminatio...
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Using two waves of store financial data and survey data collected from 34,866 and 34,365 employees and 30,239 and 33,299 customers who shopped at 594 stores of a large U.S. retail company we tested path models relating importance of service to management, service climate variables, sales personnel service performance, and store financial performanc...
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In this investigation, the authors report the results of two studies designed to investigate the efficacy of two proposed indices of interrater agreement based on average deviations from the mean and from the median (ADM and ADMd, respectively). Using survey response data collected from 6,549 sales employees in 119 stores of a national retail compa...
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Using refinements of hypotheses by L. M. Finkelstein, M. J. Burke, and N. S. Raju (1995), the authors examined the effects of rater age, age salience, and job-relevant information on 324 managers' ratings of an older or a younger hypothetical applicant's interpersonal skills, economic worth, and likelihood of being interviewed. They hypothesized th...
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R. A. Fisher's z (z'; 1958) essentially normalizes the sampling distribution of Pearson r and can thus be used to obtain an average correlation that is less affected by sampling distribution skew, suggesting a less biased statistic. Analytical formulae, however, indicate less expected bias in average r than in average z' back-converted to average r...
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This study compared per selectee utility estimates for the job of medical claims examiner based on applications of the Brogden-Cronbach-Gleser (BCG) and Raju-Burke-Normand (RBN) utility analysis models. The RBN model's per selectee utility estimate, based on a transformed observed performance rating standard deviation (sR), was closest to the per s...
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James, Demaree, Mulaik, and Ladd (1992) proposed that situational variables may act as substantive (“common”) causes of relationships between individual difference variables as well as statistical artifacts (i.e., measurement unreliability) associated with these variables, thus invalidating assumptions of current validity generalization/meta-analys...
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Tests for experiments with matched groups or repeated measures designs use error terms that involve the correlation between the measures as well as the variance of the data. The larger the correlation between the measures, the smaller the error and the larger the test statistic. If an effect size is computed from the test statistic without taking t...
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Tests for experiments with matched groups or repeated measures designs use error terms that involve the correlation between the measures as well as the variance of the data. The larger the correlation between the measures, the smaller the error and the larger the test statistic. If an effect size is computed from the test statistic without taking t...
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In the area of age discrimination in simulated employment settings, the present study meta-analytically tested 4 primary hypotheses derived from the social psychological stereotyping literature, referred to as the in-group bias, job information, salience, and job stereotype hypotheses. In general, the results supported the in-group bias, job inform...
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The effect of transforming actual skewed variables toward symmetry on the intercorrelations among the transformed variables was examined. The results showed that average correlations increased in all 20 cases studied, even though the transformations to correct skew produced slightly greater nonlinear relationships in some cases. Because the F and t...
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Previous research indicates that observed correlations between self-reports of job stress and self-reports of strain may be reduced after partialling out the variance due to the personality trait of negative affectivity. The present study examined the effect of negative affectivity on the relationships between self-reports of exercise and strain in...
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This study, with 206 federal government employees, examined hypothesized relationships between degree of voluntary participation in quality circles, employee work climate perceptions, and quality circle outcome measures. Primary results revealed that the degree of voluntary participation in quality circles was positively related to following qualit...
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In their critique of the N. S. Raju et al (1990) utility model, M. K. Judiesch et al (see record 1994-19598-001) claimed that Raju et al simply shifted the problem from one of estimating the standard deviation of the dollar-valued performance ( Y) to that of estimating the coefficient of variation (ς –iY–n/μ –iY–n). In showing the inaccuracy of th...
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On the basis of a brief review of the health, organizational, and personality psychology literatures supportive of the expectation that observed relations between self-reports of stressors and strains are influenced by the mood-dispositional dimension negative affectivity (NA), reanalyses of four data sets were conducted. The results of these reana...
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Confirmatory factor analyses of a priori models of psychological climate were conducted with data collected from 18,457 sales personnel in 567 stores in 5 regions of a national retail organization. The results provide good support for viewing employee work-climate perceptions as composed of 2 higher order factors: concern for employees and concern...
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A new meta-analytic approach for assessing the generalizability of correlations or criterion-related validities is presented. The new approach incorporates specific procedures for estimating the sampling variance of corrected and uncorrected correlations. A major advantage of the new approach is the ease with which studies without any sample-based...
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Maddi, Bartone, and Puccetti (1987) and Schroeder and Costa (1984) reported inconsistent findings regarding the impact of negative affectivity (NA; i.e., neuroticism) contaminated life event items on observed life event-illness relationships. Here, unlike the previous studied, such contaminated items were nonjudgmentally identified. Among a sample...
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A new utility analysis approach is presented. It is demonstrated that the new approach does not require the direct estimation of the most problematic component of current utility analysis equations, the standard deviation of Y. The parsimony of the new approach provides the potential for more directly linking decision-theoretic utility analysis wi...
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Replicated D. T. Lykken's study (see record 1968-18058-001) to resolve the conflict between the findings of S. R. Maddi et al (see record 1987-22446-001) and those of D. H. Schroeder and P. T. Costa (see record 1984-23643-001) regarding the impact of negative affectivity (NA; i.e., neuroticism) contaminated life event items on observed life even...
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Twenty so-called clear markers of positive and negative mood (Watson & Tellegen, 1985) were applied in the current study to measure affect at work. Confirmatory factor analyses of a bipolar Two-Factor (i.e., positive and negative affect) Model and a competing multifactor model were conducted with three samples: managerial and professional workers i...
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This study examined the accuracy of Alexander, Alliger, and Hanges' (1984) method for estimating un restricted univariate predictor means and variances from sample data drawn from three populations in two personnel selection contexts: (1) where there was di rect nonstrict truncation on the predictor, and (2) where there was direct strict truncation...
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A recursive causal model is presented in which individual and work factors are hypothesized to be predictive of workers' labelling an incentive compensation program as potentially injurious to their well-being. The individual factors include the dispositional variable, negative affectivity, and financial needs and resources. The work factors consis...
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This study compared economic utility estimates that were based on noninteractive, interactive, independent multiplicative, and Taylor Series Approximation (TSA) 1 and 2 validity generalization results for clerical selection procedures at a large international manufacturing company. On the basis of estimates of the mean true validity and lower bound...
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This study compared economic utility estimates that were based on noninteractive, interactive, independent multiplicative, and Taylor Series Approximation (TSA) 1 and 2 validity generalization results for clerical selection procedures at a large international manufacturing company. On the basis of estimates of the mean true validity and lower bound...
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This study examined the effect of estimating {crepid} (Cascio & Ramos, 1986) SDy using the original procedure or using modified versions that replaced data obtained specifically for {crepid} SDy estimation with the following organizational archival data: performance evaluations, job analysis ratings, or both evaluations and ratings. Those four S...
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This study examined the effect of estimating CREPID (Cascio & Ramos, 1986) SDy using the original procedure or using modified versions that replaced data obtained specifically for CREPID SDy estimation with the following organizational archival data: performance evaluations, job analysis ratings, or both evaluations and ratings. Those four SDy esti...
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We predicted that the dispositional construct negative affectivity (NA) would be related to self-report measures of job stress and job strain and that observed relationships between these stress and strain measures would be inflated considerably by NA. Results of a study of 497 managers and professionals were largely consistent with those expectati...
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We predicted that the dispositional construct negative affectivity (NA) would be related to self-report measures of job stress and job strain and that observed relationships between these stress and strain measures would be inflated considerably by NA. Results of a study of 497 managers and professionals were largely consistent with those expectati...
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Tested a recursive model for explaining the attitudes of a sample of 217 clerical employees toward computer-administered ability testing. Immediately following a comprehensive 2½-hr computer-administered testing session, Ss completed a short attitude questionnaire. Factor analysis showed that general acceptance of and ease of taking a computer-admi...
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We present an overview and a critique of computerized psychological testing and assessment. Emphasis is placed on describing computer testing systems currently in place, discussing considerations (factors) in developing a computerized psychological testing system, examining the research on potential benefits and problems associated with computerize...
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Compared the per-selectee and total utility estimates for an assessment center that was used to select midlevel sales managers when 2 consensus-seeking procedures, the F. L. Schmidt et al (see record 1981-02231-001) procedure and 40% and 70% of mean salary, were used for estimating the standard deviation of job performance in dollars (SD y). Using...
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With data originally obtained by the 3rd author and colleagues (see record 1980-31533-001), comparative results are presented for the noninteractive, interactive, independent multiplicative and Taylor Series Approximations 1 and 2 validity generalization procedures when there is nonzero sampling error. Findings indicate that the 5 validity general...
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Meta-analysis procedures were applied to the results of 70 managerial training (MT) studies. The meta-analysis results for 34 distributions of MT effects representing 6 training-content areas, 7 training methods, and 4 types of criteria (subjective learning, objective learning, subjective behavior, and objective results) indicated that MT was moder...
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Compared the per-selectee and total utility estimates for an assessment center that was used to select midlevel sales managers when 2 consensus-seeking procedures, the F. L. Schmidt et al (see record 1981-02231-001) procedure and 40% and 70% of mean salary, were used for estimating the standard deviation of job performance in dollars (SDy). Using t...
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F. L. Schimdt et al (see record 1981-02231-001) developed a procedure for obtaining rational estimates of the standard deviation of job performance in dollars (SD y). A problem in using their procedure is that it can yield large variation in percentile point estimates across judges. Two modified procedures using consensual feedback were tested wit...
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Several Monte Carlo studies examined the accuracy of 2 new procedures in estimating population true validity mean and variance. Results indicate that 1 of the new procedures provided slightly more accurate estimates than the procedures of F. L. Schmidt and J. E. Hunter (see record 1978-11448-001) and J. C. Callender and H. G. Osburn (see record 1...
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A path analytic model was proposed to examine the direct and indirect effects of mathematical aptitude and academic orientation on the high school and college performance of 339 male and 75 female college students. Scores on the Academic Orientation Scale of the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory were used as an indicator of academic orientation, w...

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