• Field experiment comparing the equivalence of web-based to paper-and-pencil measures (personality, situational judgment, biodata) across applicant and incumbent contexts.
  

• Field experiment examining the equivalence of web-based to paper-and-pencil measures (personality, situational judgment, biodata) across proctored and unproctored settings.
  

• Lab experiment comparing context (applicant versus incumbent) and format (web versus paper-and-pencil) differences in the equivalence of personality, situational judgment, and biodata; with a battery of measures to test why potential differences emerge.
  
  
• Lab experiment manipulating hiring decision (hire versus reject) and format (web versus paper-and-pencil) to test an attribution-based theory of test perceptions.
  

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• Development of web-based performance test for leader adaptability.
  
  
• Development of self-report measure assessing individual differences in adaptability.
  
  
• Predictive and incremental validity of adaptability over personality, stress tolerance, and coping.
  
  
• Relationships of adaptability (individual and supervisory) with organizational climate and perceived group effectiveness.
  
  
• Relationships between adaptability dimensions and other individual difference variables that are related to coping with organizational change.
  
  
• Predictive validity of adaptability for leader performance in maximum performance contexts.
  

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Job Analysis

Current Projects:

• Estimate large-sample effect sizes of race, gender, age, etc., on job analysis and competency ratings.
  
  
• Determine how various organizational, workgroup, role, and individual perceptions relate to job analysis ratings.
  
  
• Assess how job analysis ratings are affected by between-unit differences and changing sales over time.
  

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Noncognitive Predictors (Personality, Situational Judgment, Biodata)

Current Projects:

• Demonstrate validity evidence for construct-oriented situational judgment development procedure.
  
  
• Comparison of means, factor structure, validity, and subgroup differences across applicant and incumbent contexts.
  
  
• Assessment of knowledge, experience, personality, and ability correlates of situational judgment test performance.
  
  
• Investigating the incremental validity of a situational judgment test over other measurement methods.
  

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Building Multilevel Models of Staffing Effectiveness

Current Projects:

• Propose and test a multilevel theory of staffing effectiveness.
  
  
• Demonstrate how personality is homogeneous within organizations, and explains between job and organization differences.
  
  
• Show how unit level personality relates to job satisfaction across levels of analysis.
  
  
• Examine validity in multilevel staffing models.
  

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Applicant Reactions, Recruitment, and Racial Subgroup Differences

Current Projects:

• Propose and test a theory of applicant attributional processing—the Applicant Attribution-Reaction Model (AARM).
  
  
• Examine how job and organizational attributes change over time and influence applicant job choice.
  
  
• Compare when and how selection information influences test perceptions.
  
  
• Determine how subgroup differences in test perceptions contribute to subgroup test differences.
  
  
• Assess effects of framing staffing decisions on applicant reactions.
  

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Cross-Cultural Influences on Human Resources Practice

Current Projects:

• Determine if and how the validity of various selection tests change across cultures.
  

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Developing Models of Job Performance

Current Projects:

• Develop a theory of job performance change.
  
  
• Examine staffing consequences of the distinction between typical and maximum performance.
  
  
• Identify the boundary conditions of typical and maximum performance.
  

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Applied Statistics and Measurement

Current Projects:

• Examine measurement models capable of testing hypothesized causes of Differential Item Functioning (DIF).
  
  
• Propose a general model for incorporating manifest and latent means in structural equation modeling and confirmatory factor analysis.
  
  
• Problems and solutions in the assessment of measurement equivalence.
  
  
• Refinements and extensions to latent growth models and random coefficient growth models.
  
• Longitudinal field study examining the influence of coping mechanisms on soldiers’ perceptions of combat readiness over time.

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Issues Pertaining to Telework

Current Projects:

• Field study examining the organizational commitment and justice perceptions of telecommuters and traditional employees.