Abstract: Modernization of Public Administration (PA), to provide a high-quality service, requires improvements in managerial personnel assessment processes. For this purpose, we developed and validated a management competency model that ...
Summary: Survey and interview studies have identified the existence of a number of systems of financial organization in marriage, but their origins remain a mystery. One possibility is that people develop normative beliefs that are carried forward into ...
This study examines the influence of fair and supportive leadership behavior on employees’ self-reported organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The model tested assumes that the impact of fair and supportive leadership on OCB is mediated by employees’ ...
The present study (N = 844) examined the predictive validity and fairness of the assessment center (AC) and the general mental ability (GMA) test used to select officers for the Swiss Armed Forces. We found that both selection methods predicted candidates’...
This study examines how applicants who are relatives of the company’s executives are perceived when they are being considered for a leadership position. In a 2 (Family ties: with vs. without) × 2 (Applicant qualifications: well-qualified vs. ...
Underestimation of womens college grades by college admission tests: Explainable by personality traits?The present study examined whether two German college admission tests underestimate womens academic performance, and if yes, which gender specific ...
Misguided Hopes? The Limits of Human Oversight in the Use of Algorithm-Based Systems, Using the Example of Personnel selectionAbstract: Algorithm-based systems increasingly support decisions that affect the fate of humans. To harness ...
Zusammenfassung. In einer Fragebogenstudie an 117 Fußballspielern aus 14 Fußballvereinen wurden individuelle Unterschiede in der Fairness im Fußball untersucht und die Hypothese getestet, dass Fairness im Fußball sowohl auf intuitiver als auch auf ...
Taxpayers’ willingness to cooperate with the state and its institutions, in general, and their willingness to pay taxes, in particular, depend on a variety of variables. While economists stress the relevance of external variables such as tax rate, income, ...
Organizational justice is a well-known and increasingly often measured construct in work-related psychological research, for which, however, different kinds of measures are used. Colquitt (2001) developed a four-dimensional measure of organizational ...
We investigated the effects of test anxiety on test performance using computerized adaptive testing (CAT) versus conventional fixed item testing (FIT). We hypothesized that tests containing mainly items with medium probabilities of being solved would have ...
We investigated the effects of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) versus computerized fixed item testing (FIT) of reasoning ability on current motivation in terms of situational fear of failure and subjective probability of success, as well as flow. A ...
Procedural justice concerns play a critical role in economic settings, politics, and other domains of human life. Despite the vast evidence corroborating their relevance, considerably less is known about how procedural justice judgments are formed. ...
By integrating an intergroup perspective on mergers with discrepancy theories, we argue that merger partners aim for merger patterns that best benefit their group’s standing. Importantly, we hypothesize and show that the discrepancy between what merger ...
Abstract. Seventy-two undergraduates participating in a step-level asymmetric public good dilemma were requested to distribute the provided public good among the group members to achieve different group goals. In line with the hypotheses, ...
While applicant reactions to selection (un)fairness have often been investigated, less is known about applicants’ attributions and reactions to specific performance feedback. This paper discusses two studies into the influence of fairness perceptions and ...