... increase the attractiveness of an organization as a prospective employer. Design/methodology/approach The first study examines, following a longitudinal design, the signals that an organization sends to applicants about the organization's symbolic traits (e.g. innovativeness), through...

... assess fit with a wider range of physical work environment functions. Employment Organizational behavior Social networks Knowledge workers Person–environment fit Person-space fit Physical work environment Physical work space Open plan office This research adopts a multi-study...

... perceptions of assessments (Banfield and Wilkerson, 2014). Yet, there are concerns that gamification could be perceived negatively by job candidates in high-stakes pre-employment assessments. For example, research suggests that candidates perceive test batteries including gamified assessments as less fair...

... Licensed re-use rights only Employment Diversity Selection Cognition Psychometrics Organizations often include cognitive ability testing in their employee selection practices, particularly due to their strong relationship with job performance (Schmidt and Hunter, 1998). While advantageous...

... be contacted at: mgkeith@bgsu.edu 07 06 2018 02 10 2018 15 01 2019 07 03 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Employment Well-being Labour Temporary workers Instead, we investigate two distinctions that may...

...Richard Ian Lanyon; Leonard D Goodstein Purpose – Previous research has not demonstrated a consistent relationship between pre-employment measures of good impression (GI) response bias and subsequent job performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the likelihood that such effects would...

... be denigrated most in hiring evaluations. However, given expectations of normative gender behavior, the authors might anticipate that older men would be penalized most for not already having stable employment. This study aims to examine which hypothesis best describes selection biases based on age and gender...

...Hannes Zacher; Angelika Bock Purpose – In the context of demographic and economic changes, helping mature age job seekers find employment is imperative. The purpose of this paper is to examine mature age job seekers’ proactive personality as a moderator of the relationship between age and job...

... of their membership of that group (Brown, 1995). Previous research has indicated that discrimination towards IPs in Canada is evident through the devaluation of international credentials, with less value being attributed by employers to internationally obtained credentials than to those obtained in Canada (Alboim...

...T. Alexandra Beauregard; Mustafa Ozbilgin; Myrtle P. Bell Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how traditional definitions of family, in the context of employment, have not kept pace with actual family formation in the USA and much of the rest of the world, and how...

... regrets. It is hoped this exploratory research encourages further study as well as the development of a theory‐based model of career regrets. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Careers Career development Employment Redundancy Individual behaviour Organizational politics Overall...

... (Cooke and Rousseau, 1984). Employment Family Conflict Gender Role conflict Spain The past two decades have brought a great increase in the number of individuals with significant responsibilities both at work and with family: single parents, working women, dual‐career couples...

... in the data seemed to have disappeared. In exasperation I insisted that something must have changed but the student insisted that the only thing that was different was the place in which she was carrying out the tests. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Brain Gender Employment Psychology...

..., 1981). They may experience external locus of control and become the pawns (slaves) rather than the origins (masters) of money (cf. deCharms, 1976). The notion that money is a symbol of success (factor success) is associated with external locus of control (Tang, 1993). Employment Students Pay...

... relatively more experienced and well‐motivated were significantly more effective at job‐hunting. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Employment Top management Occupational psychology Personality Redundancy VOLUME 7 NUMBER 3 1992 How Executives Get Better Jobs (More Quickly) Lea Brindle The study examined...

... the working environment, and the need for support networks, are presented as potential stress management strategies. Graduates Stress Small‐to medium‐sized enterprises Employment VOLUME 6 NUMBER 5 1991 STRESS AMONG GRADUATES WORKING IN THE SME SECTOR David Johnson The smooth transfer of graduates...

... assesing the credibilty of letters of reference. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Canada Employment Surveys 22 JOURNAL OF MANAGERIAL PSYCHOLOGY 3,1 Letters of reference are in widespread use but they are not always perceived as being highly credible. Credible Letters of Reference: How you Read Them...