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Ongoing Research Projects

Joyce Bono

Joyce Bono's current research is focused on leaders and leadership development. Current projects with doctoral students include examination of individual characteristics associated with leaders' commitment to developmental activities, exploring stereotypes surrounding men, women, and managers, inquiry into the role of emotional contagion in the leadership process, linking leadership behaviors to employees' emotional management at work, and developing a taxonomy of leadership coaching practices. Much of this research is conducted through the Leadership Lab, a collaboration between Bono's research team and local, national, and international business, non-profit and governmental organizations who seek leadership development for managers in their organizations.

John Campbell

John Campbell serves as the principal scientist for a series of projects funded by the Army Research Institute (ARI) and the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) that focus on developing selection and classification measures for U.S. Army recruitment and selection systems 10-25 years in the future. It involves capturing expert forecasts of future performance requirements, development of new predictor measures for such future requirements, and validation of the new measures using special samples where the "future is now." Both entry level positions (first term enlisted personnel) and first line supervision/leadership (junior NCO's) are part of the design.


Deniz Ones

Ongoing projects include the following:

• SAT and HS GPA Meta-Analysis: A team of graduate and undergraduate students working with faculty members Deniz Ones and John Campbell and recent program graduates Drs. Nathan Kuncel and Sarah Hezlett examines the usefulness of SAT scores for predicting various behaviors and outcomes in college. Funded by the College Board, this study uses meta-analysis to bring scientific clarity to a controversial area of selection.

• Meta-Analysis of Non-cognitive Predictors used in Police Selection: A team of graduate and undergraduate students working with faculty members Deniz Ones and John Campbell and recent program graduates Drs. Nathan Kuncel and Sarah Hezlett examines the usefulness of personality based traits for predicting various behaviors and outcomes in college. Funded by the College Board, this study uses meta-analysis to examine which personality traits are linked to college success.

• Longitudinal Managerial Study with Personnel Decisions International: A team of graduate students working with faculty member Deniz Ones investigates managerial career progression and the role of personality in shaping careers. This is longitudinal study undertaken collaboration with Personnel Decisions International.

• Gender, Ethnic Group and Cross-Cultural Differences In Personality: Two graduate students in collaboration with Dr. Deniz Ones are examining the magnitudes of gender and ethnic group differences in personality traits. Work also focuses on cross-cultural personality differences and their consequences.

• Predicting and Explaining Expatriate Job Performance & Adjustment: A team of graduate students in collaboration with Dr. Deniz Ones and international colleagues are examining predictors of expatriate managers’ overseas job performance and adjustment. This research is in collaboration with Turkish research partners.

Paul Sackett

Coaching effects on test performance
A team of students working with Paul Sackett continues to explore the degree to which scores on various types of selection tests can be affected by coaching. Funded by the College Board, current work focuses on situational judgment tests, in which candidates are presented with a scenario and asked to choose the most appropriate course of action from an array of options. A coaching program has been developed, which offers general principles for choosing a response, and the test performance of candidates with and without the coaching are being compared. A new project focusing on coaching applicants to improve performance on written essays is just underway.

Counterproductive work behavior
A team of students working with Paul Sackett continues a multi-year exploration of counterproductive behavior in the workplace. One key issue is the dimensionality of counterproductive behaviors (e.g., how interrelated are behaviors such as theft, absenteesim, and alcohol use). A second is the relationship between counterproductive work behavior and other more desirable work behaviors, such as citizenship and task performance. A third is the relationship between individual difference measures, such as personality traits, and counterproductive behaviors.

Fairness, bias, and diversity issues in personnel selection
A team of students working with Paul Sackett continues to explore issues related to race and gender diversity in the workplace and how personnel selection systems affect this diversity. Ongoing work includes a) examining whether stereotype threat effects found in laboratory settings generalize to operational testing settings, b) examining the use of educational attainment as a surrogate for cognitive ability testing, c) examining the prospects for reducing adverse impact via the use of test score banding procedures, and d) examining the prospects for reducing majority-minority differences by supplementing cognitively loaded ability and achievement measures with additional measures from the non-cognitive domain.