TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
"Virtual Open House" Slides (Feb 2011)
Recent Publications(2010-2012)
Recent Conference Presentations
(2010-2012)
Program Documents
Core I/O Faculty
Winfred Arthur,
Jr., vita; stuff; (Ph.D., University of Akron).
Research interests: Personnel psychology; testing, selection, and validation; human
performance, team selection and training, training development, design,
delivery, and evaluation; complex skill acquisition and retention,
models of job performance, meta-analysis.
Mindy E. Bergman
(Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign).
[Area Head, Industrial/Organizational Psychology]
Research interests: Sexual and racial harassment and discrimination, organizational climate,
organizational commitment, situational judgment tests.
Christopher Berry
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota).
Rsearch interests: Validity
and fairness in personnel selection and performance appraisal;
cognitive ability and personality testing for selection purposes;
response distortion; counterproductive work behavior; models of job
performance; meta-analysis; accounting for range restriction in
validity estimation.
Stephanie
C. Payne (Ph.D., George Mason University).
Research
interests: The measurement and prediction of efficiency in the
workplace; criterion development and performance appraisal; individual
differences (e.g., goal orientation); predictors of turnover including
organizational commitment and work-family conflict; antecedents and
outcomes of safety climate.
Charles
D. Samuelson (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara).
Research interests: Computer–mediated communication and group processes, behavioral decision
making, conflict management in multi-party environmental disputes.
Department of Psychology, and Africana Studies Program
Research interests: How do individual differences for prolonged experiences of ostracism-ignoring and excluding by individuals or groups - affect reactions to exclusionary social interactions over time? This research program identifies distinctions among ostracized targets, including individual differences, grouped individuals, and individuals who belong to stigmatized or marginalized groups. Workplace topics related to this research area include outcomes of being 'out of the loop,' ostracism in LMX relationships, and the Glass Cliff phenomenon. These empirical questions investigated in both laboratory and field settings and from an interdisciplinary prospective.
Kathi Miner (Ph.D., University of Michigan).
Department of Psychology, and Women's and Gender Studies Program
Research
interests: Interpersonal mistreatment in applied contexts; gender,
race, sexual orientation, and other categories of difference in
organizations; occupational health; cross-cultural investigations of
workplace mistreatment; power and status in organizations; how societal
issues and events affect employee relations; physiological responses to
workplace mistreatment.
Joint Appointments
Michael K.
Lindell (Ph.D., University of Colorado)
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M
University
Research interests: Individual and organizational response to disasters,
statistics.
Ramona Paetzold
(J.D., University of Nebraska; D.B.A., Indiana University)
Department of Management, Texas A&M University
Research interests: Law and statistics, discrimination law.
Management Faculty
The Psychology Department maintains close
ties with faculty from the
Management Department in the
College of Business Administration. The faculty members listed below
have research interests in the I/O area or have assisted
graduate students
in the I/O program with research projects. Many of these faculty have
also served on Master's and Doctoral committees for I/O students in the
Department.
Murray Barrick (Ph.D., University of Akron)
Impact
of individual differences in behavior and personality on job
performance and the methods of measuring and predicting such
differences. Work team success and the role of team composition,
team interdependence, and team processes on team performance. The
influence of candidate self-presentation tactics on interviewers during
employment interviews.
Leonard Bierman (J.D., University of Pennsylvania)
Employment and labor law.
Wendy Boswell (Ph.D., Cornell University)
Employee attraction and retention, strategic alignment, work-related
stress, and executive job search.
Dan S. Chiaburu (Ph.D., University of Pensyvania)
Organizational behaviors and human resources, lateral
(coworker-directed) exchanges, employee prosocial (e.g., citizenship)
and proactive (e.g., initiative) behaviors, and training transfer.
Stephen Courtright (Ph.D., University of Iowa)
Team and leadership effectiveness.
Ricky Griffin (Ph.D., University of Houston)
Organizational behavior, task design, quality of work life.
Michael Hitt (Ph.D., University of Colorado).
Strategic human resource management, management issues in recently
opened economics, international management.
Duane Ireland (Ph.D., Texas Tech University).
Deidra Schleicher (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University).
Michael Wesson (Ph.D., Michigan State University)
Human resource management and organizational behavior.
Richard Woodman (Ph.D., Purdue University)
Organizational behavior, organizational change & development,
creativity.
Ryan Zimmerman (Ph.D., University of Iowa)
Employee selection and retention, individual differences (e.g.
personality and general mental ability), and person-environment fit.