IOHRM

Education

• Ph.D., 2006, North Carolina State University, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• M.S., 2002, North Carolina State University, Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• B.S., 1999, Appalachian State University, Psychology

Teaching Interests

Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Training and Development, Performance Management, Compensation

Research Interests

Performance Management, Training and Development, Work Analysis/Design, Context Effects, Person/Situation Interactions, Multilevel Modeling

Awards and Accolades

Bauer Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2011, Illinois Institute of Technology

College of Psychology Junior Faculty Teaching Award, 2011, Illinois Institute of Technology

Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research Top 20 Nominee, 2009, Center for Families at Purdue University, Boston College Center for Work and Family

Top Poster Session, 2009, "Longitudinal effects of learner preferences on individual and team-level outcomes," Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Selected Publications

Dierdorff, E. C., Rubin, R. S., & Ellington, J. K. (2021). Interpersonal skills, role cognitions, and OCB: Exploring mediating mechanisms and contextual constraints on role enactment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 129, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2021.103604

Ellington, J. K., McAbee, S. T., Landis, R. S, & Mead, A. D. (2021). I only have one rater per ratee, so what? The impact of clustered performance rating data on operational validity estimates. Journal of Business and Psychology, 36, 33-54. doi: 10.1007/s10869-019-09665-4

Dierdorff, E. C., Surface, E. A., Harman, R. P., Ellington, J. K., & Watson, A. M. (2020). The ebb and flow of dispositional goal orientations: Exploring the consequences of within-person variability over time. Journal of Business and Psychology, 35, 117–134. doi: 10.1007/s10869-018-9559-4

Dierdorff, E. C., & Ellington, J. K. (2019). O*NET and the nature of work. In F. L. Oswald, T. S. Behrend, & L. L. Foster (Eds.), Workforce Readiness and the Future of Work. New York: Routledge.

Dierdorff, E. C., & Ellington, J. K. (2017). Team training: Knowing much, but needing to know much more. In K. G. Brown (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Training and Employee Development. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Ellington, J. K., & Wilson, M. A. (2017). The performance appraisal milieu: A multilevel analysis of context effects in performance ratings. Journal of Business and Psychology, 32, 87-100. doi: 10.1007/s10869-016-9437-x

Harman, R. P., Ellington, J. K., Surface, E. A., & Thompson, L. F. (2015). Exploring qualitative training reactions: Individual and contextual influences on trainee commenting. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100, 894-916. doi: 10.1037/a0038380

Ellington, J. K., Surface, E. A., Blume, B. D., & Wilson, M. A. (2015). Foreign language training transfer: Individual and contextual predictors of skill maintenance and generalization. Military Psychology, 27, 36-51. doi: 10.1037/mil0000064

Ellington, J. K., Dierdorff, E. C., & Rubin, R. S. (2014). Decelerating the diminishing returns of citizenship on task performance: The role of social context and interpersonal skill. Journal of Applied Psychology, 99, 748-758. doi: 10.1037/a0036102

Ellington, J. K., & Dierdorff, E. C. (2014). Individual learning in team training: Self-regulation and team context effects. Small Group Research, 45, 37-67. doi: 10.1177/1046496413511670

Dierdorff, E. C., & Ellington, J. K. (2012). Members matter in team training: Multilevel and longitudinal relationships between goal orientation, self-regulation, and team outcomes. Personnel Psychology, 65, 661-703. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2012.01255.x

Dierdorff, E. C., & Ellington, J. K. (2008). It's the nature of the work: Examining behavior-based sources of work-family conflict across occupations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 883-892. doi: 10.1037/0021-9010.93.4.883

Presentations

Bauer, K. N., Olenick, J., Surface, E. A., & Ellington, J. K. (2022, April). Trainer behaviors matter: Development of a trainer effectiveness competency model. Paper presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Seattle, WA.

Bauer, K. N., Ellington, J. K., & Surface, E. A. (2022, March). Battle of the five motivations: Which measure(s) should be used? Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Conference of the International Military Testing Association, Raleigh, N.C.

Ellington, J. K., Olenick, J., Bauer, K. N., & Surface, E. A. (2021, April). Trainers matter for more than just reactions. In J. Olenick and K. N. Bauer (Chairs), Trial and error: Processes and predictors of training transfer. Symposium conducted at the 36th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Overfors, C. M., Ellington, J. K., & Landis, R. S. (2019, April). Performance appraisal rating goals: Examining rater strategies and goal endorsement. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Washington, D.C.

Surface, E. A., Ellington, J. K., Conroy, S. A., Harman, R. P., Drewes, D. W., Brandt, L., & Dezern, E. (2018, August). Impact of changing skill-based pay certification criteria on skill proficiency. In S. Essman and A. J. Nyberg (Chairs), Compensation plan implementation and change: Consequences for individuals, teams, and firms. Symposium conducted at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.

Ellington, J. K., Dierdorff, E. C., & Rubin, R. S. (2018, April). The interplay between interpersonal skills, role cognitions, social context, and OCB. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

 Ellington, J. K., McAbee, S., T., Landis, R. S., & Mead, A. D. (2018, April). The impact of nested performance ratings on operational validity estimates. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Harman, R. P., Ellington, J. K., Surface, E. A., & Chen, A. (2018, April). Reducing bias and improving comment quality by changing the prompt. In V. Hendrickson (Chair), Finding the needle in the haystack: Finding and acting on quality comments. Symposium conducted at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Surface, E. A., Harman, R. P., & Ellington, J. K., (2018, April). Using formative evaluation data to improve trainer performance and effectiveness. In E. E. Makarius and B. Z. Larson (Chairs), Changing perspectives of employee learning and development. Symposium conducted at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Surface, E. A., Ellington, J. K., & Hamlyn, H. (2015, April). Using FOR to train and certify language proficiency assessment raters. In C. A. Gorman and K. G. Melchers (Chairs), New developments in rater training research. Symposium conducted at the 30th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Philadelphia, PA.

Ellington, J. K., & Wilson, M. A. (2014, August). Putting raters in context: A multilevel analysis of supervisory performance ratings. In S. Clinebell (Chair), Performance management. Symposium conducted at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA.

Overfors, C. M., & Ellington, J. K. (2014, May). Rating goals in performance appraisal: Developing a taxonomy and measure. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu, HI.

Ellington, J. K., Mead, A. D., Landis, R. S., & Overfors, C. M. (2013, August). Are we underestimating the predictive validity of GMA? In J. K. Ellington and E. C. Dierdorff (Chairs), Contextualizing the predictive validity of general mental ability. Symposium conducted at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Orlando, FL.

Dierdorff, E. C., Rubin, R. S., & Ellington, J. K. (2012, April). Decelerating the diminishing returns of citizenship on task performance. In T. N. Bauer and J. R. Rineer (Chairs), Expanding new frontiers of OCB research: Context matters. Symposium conducted at the 27th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Dierdorff, E. C., & Ellington, J. K. (2011, August). Goal orientation and self-regulation during team training. In J. E. Federman and B. S. Bell (Chairs), Recent advances and future directions in research on self-regulation. Symposium conducted at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, San Antonio, TX.

Dierdorff, E. C., & Ellington, J. K. (2011, April). Individual learning in team training: Self-regulation, self-efficacy, and moderating effects of team context. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Fleener, B. A., Ayman, R., & Ellington, J. K. (2011, April). A multi-level, multi-source study of charismatic leadership, gender, and performance. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Ellington, J. K., Surface, E. A., & Wilson, M. A. (2010, August). Transfer of language proficiency training in the Army Special Forces. Paper presented at the 118th Annual American Psychological Association Conference, San Diego, CA.

Ellington, J. K., & Surface, E. A. (2009, April). The trainer's impact in the learning environment: A multilevel examination. In S. T. Bell & A. Towler (Chairs), The people factor: Considering trainee and trainer effects on learning. Symposium conducted at the 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Dierdorff, E. C., Ellington, J. K., & Belohlav, J. A. (2009, April). Longitudinal effects of learner preferences on individual and team-level outcomes. Paper presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

Deprez-Sims, A. S., & Ellington, J. K. (2009, February). Trainer and trainee demographic characteristics: An examination of influences on training evaluation measures. Symposium conducted at the 30thAnnual Industrial/Organizational and Organizational Behavior Conference, Chicago, IL.

Liu, L., & Ellington, J. K. (2009, February). Effects of simultaneous learning, language similarity and motivation to learn on third language acquisition. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Industrial/Organizational and Organizational Behavior Conference, Chicago, IL.

Surface, E. A., & Ellington, J. K. (2008, April). Rethinking context in training effectiveness research: Instructor as the learning context. In E. C. Dierdorff (Chair), Illuminating the 'murky ground': Linking context theory to empirical research. Symposium conducted at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

Dierdorff, E. C., & Ellington, J. K. (2007, August). It's the nature of work: Examining behavior-based sources of work-family conflict across occupations. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA.

Ellington, J. K., Meade, A. W., Dierdorff, E. C., & Wilson, M. A. (2004, April). IRT and job analysis: Do polytomous models fit the data? Paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Meade, A. W., Ellington, J. K., & Craig, S. B. (2004, April). Exploratory measurement invariance: A new method based on item response theory. In M. J. Zickar (Chair), Recent advances in item response theory research. Symposium conducted at the 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL.

Ellington, J. K., Surface, E. A., & Dierdorff, E. C. (2003, April). Student reactions to a team project incorporating web-based peer evaluation. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Orlando, FL.