Syllabus

 

Course Outline, Reading List, and References

REQUIRED TEXT:

Cascio, W. F., & Aguinis, H. (2011).  Applied psychology in human resource management (7th ed.).  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.  [ISBN-13: 978-0-13-609095-3]

GENERAL REFERENCES:
These are sources that you will need and use throughout both your graduate and professional careers so it is a good idea to get them or at least ensure that you have ready access to them until you do.

American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & National Council on Measurement in Education (AERA, APA, & NCME). (2014).  Standards for educational and psychological testing.  Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.

American Psychological Association. (2009).  Publication manual for the American Psychological Association (6th ed.).  Washington, DC: Author.

American Psychological Association. (2002).  Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct.  American Psychologist, 57, 1060-1073.

Department of Labor.  O*NET.  http://online.onetcenter.org/

Dictionary of Occupational Titles.  http://www.occupationalinfo.org/

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Civil Service Commission, Department of Labor, Department of Justice (1978).  Adoption by four agencies of uniform guidelines on employee selection procedures.  Federal Register, 43, 38290-38315.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Civil Service Commission, Department of Labor, Department of Justice (1979).  Interpretation and clarification of the Uniform Employee Selection Guidelines.  Federal Register, 44, 11996-12009.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Civil Service Commission, Department of Labor, Department of Justice (1980).  Adoption of additional questions and answers to clarify and provide a common interpretation of the Uniform Guidelines on employee Selection Procedures.  Federal Register, 45, 29529-29531.

Gatewood, R. D., Feild, H. S., & Barrick, M. (2011).  Human resource selection (7^th ed.).  Mason, OH: South-Western College Publishing.

Guion, R. M. (2011).  Assessment, measurement, and prediction for personnel decisions (2^nd ed.).  New York: NY: Routledge.

Guion, R. M., & Highhouse, S. (2006).  Essentials of personnel assessment and selection.  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Muchinsky, P. M. (2011).  Psychology applied to work (9^th ed.).  Kansas City, KS: Hypergraphics Press.

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Inc (2003).  Principles for the validation and use of personnel selection procedures (4^th Ed.).   Bowling Green, OH: Author.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Civil Rights Act of 1991.

 

1.  What is I/O Psychology, What do I/O Psychologists do, And Licensure and Ethical issues IN I/O Psychology

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapters 1 and 3; and Chapter 18.

Benjamin, L. T. Jr., & Baker, D. B. (2004).  From Séance to Science: A history of the profession of psychology in America.  Chapter 4: Industrial/Organizational Psychology (pp. 115-155).  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning.

Borman, W. C., Ilgen, D. R., & Klimoski, R. J. (2003).  Stability and change in industrial and organizational psychology.  In W. C. Borman, D. R. Ilgen, R. J. Klimoski, & I. B. Weiner (Eds.), Handbook of psychology: volume 12, Industrial and organizational psychology (pp. 1-17).  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Highhouse, S. (2007). Where did this name come from anyway? A brief history of the I-O label. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 45(1), 53-56.

Khanna, C., Medsker, G. J., & Ginter, R. (2013).  2012 income and employment survey results for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist.

Lefkowitz, J. (2005).  The values of industrial-organizational psychology: Who are we?  The Industrial- Organizational Psychologist, 43(2), 13-20.

Ryan, A.M. (2003).  Defining ourselves: I-O psychology's identity quest.  The Industrial Organizational-Psychologist, 41(1), 21-33.

Sackett, P. R., & Lievens, F. (2008).  Personnel selection.  Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 419-450.  [Since this article is a review of personnel psychology in general, treat this as a general reference and source for all sibsequent sections in this syllabus.  However, I am not repeating it after each section.]
 

2.  Job Analysis

Cascio & Aguinis,  Chapter 9.

Department of Labor.  O*NET.  http://online.onetcenter.org/

Dictionary of Occupational Titles.  http://www.occupationalinfo.org/

Doverspike, D., & Arthur, W., Jr. (2012).  The role of job analysis in test selection and development.  In M. A. Wilson, W. Bennett, Jr., S. G. Gibson, & G. M. Alliger (Eds.), The handbook of work analysis in organizations: The methods, systems, applications, and science of work measurement in organizations (pp. 381-399).  New York: Routledge/Psychology Press.

Morgeson, F. P., & Dierdorff, E. C. (2011).  Work analysis: From technique to theory.  In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology: Volume 2, Selecting and developing members for the organization (pp. 3-41).  Washington, DC: APA.

 

3. Recruitment and Initial Screening

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapter 11.

Dineen, B. R., & Soltis, S. M. (2011).  Recruitment: A review of research and emerging issues.  In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology: Volume 2, Selecting and developing members for the organization (pp. 43-66).  Washington, DC: APA.

Newman, D. A., & Lyon, J. S. (2009).  Recruitment efforts to reduce adverse impact: Targeted recruiting for personality, cognitive ability, and diversity.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 298-317.

 

4.  Testing, Validation, Psychometrics, and Making selection decisions

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapters 6, 7, 8, and 14 (pp. 315-332).

Arthur, W., Jr. (2010).  Research methods.  Presentation at the Texas A&M University I/O Psychology Colloquium Series.

Binning, J. F., & Barrett, G. V. (1989).  Validity of personnel decisions: A conceptual analysis of the inferential and evidential bases.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 74, 478-494.

Guion, R. M. (2002).  Validity and reliability. In S. G. Rogelberg (Ed.), Handbook of research methods in industrial and organizational psychology (pp. 58-76).  Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

Johnson, J. W., Steel, P., Scherbaum, C. A., Hoffman, C.C., Jeanneret, P. R., & Foster, J. (2010).  Validation is like motor oil: Synthetic is better.  Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 3, 305-328.

Messick, S. (1995).  Validity of psychological assessment: Validation of inferences from persons' responses and performances as scientific inquiry into score meaning.  American Psychologist, 50, 741-749.

Pedhazer, E. J., & Schmelkin, L. P. (1991).  Measurement, design, and analysis: An integrated approach.  Hillsdale, NJ: LEA.  (Validity, pp. 223-233.)

 

5.  Meta-analysis and Validity Generalization

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapter 7 ( pp. 158-165).

Arthur, W., Jr., Bennett, W., Jr., & Huffcutt, A. I. (2001).  The theory of meta-analysis—Sampling error and the law of small numbers.  In W. Arthur, Jr., W. Bennett, Jr., & A. I. Huffcutt.  Conducting meta-analysis using SAS (pp. 5-20).  Mahwah, NJ: LEA.

Glass, G. V. (1999, July 15).  Meta-analysis at 25.  Paper presented to Office of Special Education Programs Research Project Directors' Conference, U.S. Department of Education.  Washington D.C.

Huffcutt, A. I. (2002).  Research perspectives on meta-analysis.  In S. G. Rogelberg (Ed.), Handbook of research methods in industrial and organizational psychology (pp. 198-215).  Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.

 

6.  Criteria, and WORK Performance

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapter 4.

Carpenter, N. C., & Arthur, W., Jr. (2013).  The concpetual versus empirical distinctiveness of work performance constructs: The impact of work performance items.  In D. Svyantek, & K. Mahoney (Eds.), Received wisdom, kernels of truth, and boundary conditions in organizational studies (pp. 39-53).  Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Motowidlo, S. J. (2003).  Job performance.  In W. C. Borman, D. R. Ilgen, R. J. Klimoski, & I. B. Weiner (Eds.), Handbook of psychology: Volume 12, Industrial and organizational psychology (pp. 39-53).  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

 

7.  Performance Appraisal

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapter 5.

DeNisi, A. S., & Sonesh, S. (2011).  The appraisal and management of performance at work.  In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology: Volume 2, Selecting and developing members for the organization (pp. 255-279).  Washington, DC: APA.

Murphy, K. (2008).  Explaining the weak relationship between job performance and ratings of job performance.  Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 1, 148-160   [plus commentaries and response, pp. 161-205].

Roch, S. G., Woehr, D. J., Mishra, V., & Kieszczynaska, U. (2012).  Rater training revisited: An updated meta-analytic review of frame-of-reference training.  Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 85, 370-395.

 

8.  Utility analysis

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapter 14 (pp. 332–342).

Cabrera, E. F., & Raju, N. S. (2001).  Utility analysis: Current trends and future directions.  International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 9, 92-102.

Highhouse, S. (2008).  Stubborn reliance on intuition and subjectivity in employee selection.  Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 1, 333-342.

Kim, Y., & Ployhart, R. E. (2013).  The effects of staffing and traiing on firm productivity and profit growth before, during, and after the great recession.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 99, 361-389.

 

9.  The PREDICTOR Construct AND PREDICTOR Method Distinction, predictors, and test types

Arthur, W., Jr., & Villado, A. J. (2008).  The importance of distinguishing between constructs and methods when comparing predictors in personnel selection research and practice.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 435-442.

Schmidt, F. L., & Hunter, J. E. (1998).  The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychology: Practical and theoretical implications of 85 years of research findings.  Psychological Bulletin, 124, 262-274.

Schmitt, N. (2014).  Personality and cognitive ability as predictors of effective performance of work.  Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1, 45-65.

10.  SUBGROUP DIFFERENCES, ADVERSE IMPACT, EEO AND LEGAL ISSUES AND SUCH

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapter 2.

Arthur, W., Jr., & Doverspike, D. (2005).  Achieving diversity and reducing discrimination in the workplace through human resource management practices: Implications of research and theory for staffing, training, and rewarding performance.  In R. L. Dipboye, & A. Colella (Eds), Discrimination at work: The psychological and organizational bases (pp. 305-327).  Mahwah, NJ: LEA.

Arthur, W., Jr., Doverspike, D., Barrett, G. V., & Miguel, R. (2013).  Chasing the Title VII Holy Grail: The pitfalls of guaranteeing adverse impact elimination.  Journal of Business and Psychology, 28, 473-485.

Arthur, W., Jr., Woehr, D. J. (2013).  No steps forward, two steps back: The fallacy of trying to "eradicate" adverse impact?  Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 6, 438-442.

Johns, M., Schmader, T., & Martens, A. (2005).  Knowing is half the battle: Teaching stereotype threat as a means of improving women's math performance.  Psychological Science, 16, 175-179.

Krendl, A. C., Richeson, J. A., Kelley, W. M., & Heatherton, T. F. (2008).  The negative consequences of threat: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of the neural mechanisms underlying women's underperformance in math.  Psychological Science, 19, 168-175.

Landy, F. (2008).  Stereotypes, bias, and personnel decisions: Strange and stranger.  Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 1, 379-392   [plus commentaries and response, pp.  393-453].

Ployhart, R. E., & Holtz, B. C. (2008).  The diversity-validity dilemma: Strategies for reducing racioethnic and sex subgroup differences and adverse impact in selection.  Personnel Psychology, 61, 153-172.

Roth, P. L., Huffcutt, A. I., & Bobko, P. (2003).  Ethnic group differences in measures of job performance: A new meta-analysis.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 694-706.

 

11. FIT: person-organization fit AND INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT

Highhouse, S. (2002).  Assessing the candidate as a whole: A historical and critical analysis of individual psychological assessment for personnel decision making.  Personnel Psychology, 55, 363-396.

Kristof-Brown, A., & Guay, R. P. (2011).  Person-environment fit.  In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology: Volume 3, Maintaining, expanding, and contracting the organization (pp. 3-50). Washington, DC: APA.

 

12. PREDICTORS BASED ON PERSONAL AND HISTORICAL INFORMATION
(e.g., Biodata, Background and Credit Checks, References, and Letters of Recommendation)

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapter 12 (pp. 253-260).

Madera, J. M., Hebl, M. R., Martin, R. C. (2009).  Gender and letters of recommendation for academia: Agentic and communal differences.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 1591-1599.

Stokes, G. S., & Cooper, L. A. (2004).  Biodata.  In M. Hersen, & J. C. Thomas (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychological assessment: Volume 4, Industrial and organizational assessment (pp. 243-268).  NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

 

13. Training and Experience

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapter 12 (pp. 263-264).

Levine, E. L., Ash, R. A., & Levine, J. D. (2004).  Judgmental assessment of job-related experience, training, and education for use in human resource staffing.  In M. Hersen, & J. C. Thomas (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychological assessment: Volume 4, Industrial and organizational assessment (pp. 269-296).  NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

U. S. Merit Systems Protection Board. (2014).  Evaluating job applicants: The role of training and experience.  Washington, DC: Author.

 

14. Employment Interviews

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapter 12 (pp. 268-279).

Barrick, M. R., Shaffer, J. A., & DeGrassi, S. W. (2009).  What you see may not be what you get: A meta-analysis of the relationship between self-presentation tactics and ratings of interview and job performance.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 94, 1394-1411.

Huffcutt, A. I., & Culbertson, S. S. (2011).  Interviews. In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology: Volume 2, Selecting and developing members for the organization (pp. 185-203).   Washington, DC: APA.

Levashina, J., Hartwell, C. J., Morgeson, F. P., & Campion, M. A. (2014).  The structured employment interview: Narrative and quantitative review of the research literature.  Personnel Psychology, 67, 241-293.

15. Assessment Centers and Work Samples

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapter 13 (pp. 303-311).

Arthur, W., Jr., & Day, E. A. (2011).  Assessment centers.  In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology: Volume 2, Selecting and developing members for the organization (pp. 205-235). Washington, DC: APA.

Meriac, J. P., Hoffman, B. J., & Woehr, D. J. (2014).  A conceptual and empirical review of the struture of assessment center dimensions.  Journal of Management, 40, 1269-1296.

 

16. Personality, Honesty, and Integrity Testing

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapter 13 (pp. 267-268, 287-291).

Hough, L. M., & Oswald, F. L. (2008).  Personality testing and industrial-organizational psychology: Reflections, progress, and prospects.  Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 1, 272-290   [plus commentaries and response, pp. 291-332].

Oswald, F. L. & Hough, L. M. (2011).  Personality and its assessment in organizations: Theoretical and empirical developments.  In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology: Volume 2, Selecting and developing members for the organization (pp. 153-184).  Washington, DC: APA.

Schmitt, N. (2014).  Personality and cognitive ability as predictors of effective performance of work.  Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1, 45-65.

Van Iddekinge, C. H., Roth, P. L., Raymark, P. H., & Odle-Dusseau, H. N. (2012).  The criterion-related validity of integrty tests: An updated meta-analysis.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 499-530.

 

17. Drug Testing

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapter 12 (pp. 265-267).

Arthur, W., Jr., & Doverspike, D. (1997).  Employment-related drug testing: Idiosyncratic characteristics and issues. Public Personnel Management, 26, 77-87.

Frone, M. R. (2006).  Prevalence and distribution of illicit drug use in the workforce and in the workplace: Findings and implications from a U. S. national survey.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 856-869.

18. SITUATIONAL JUDGMENT TESTS

Arthur, W., Jr., Glaze, R. M., Jarrett, S. M., White, C. D., & Taylor, J. E. (2014).  Coparative evaluation of three situational judgment test response formats in terms of construct-related validity, subgroup differences, and susceptibility to response distortion.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 99, 335-345.

Ployhart, R. E., & MacKenzie, W. I. Jr. (2011).  Situational judgment tests: A critical review and agenda.  In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology: Volume 2, Selecting and developing members for the organization (pp. 237-252).  Washington, DC: APA.

 

19. UNPROCTORED INTERNET-BASED TESTS

Arthur, W., Jr., & Glaze, R. M. (2011).  Cheating and response distortion on remotely delivered assessments.  In N. Tippins, & S. Adler (Eds.), Technology-enhanced assessment of talent (pp. 99-152).  San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Arthur, W., Jr., Doverspike, D., Munoz, G. J., Taylor, J. E., & Carr, A. E. (2014).  The use of mobile devices in high-stakes remotely delivered assessments and testing.  International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 22, 113-123.

Morelli, N. A., Mahan, R. P., & Illingworth, A. J. (2014).  Establishing the measurement equivalence of online selection assessments delivered on a mobile versus nonmobile devices.   International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 22, 113-123.

Tippins, N. T. (2009).  Internet alternatives to traditional proctored testing: Where are we now?  Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 2, 2-10   [plus commentaries and response, pp. 11-76].

 

20. TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS

Cascio & Aguinis, Chapters 15 and 16.

Brown, K. G., & Sitzman, T. (2011).  Training and employee development for improved performance.  In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology: Volume 2, Selecting and developing members for the organization (pp. 469-503).  Washington, DC: APA.

Noe, R. A., Clarke, A. D. M., $ Klein, H. J. (2014).  Learning in the twenty-first-century workplace.  Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1, 245-275.