First-year IOHRM student Matthew Cartabuke recently lectured at the Appalachian Regional Business Symposium in Johnson City, TN at Eastern Tennessee University on March 21st. Matthew is working with Dr. Jim Westerman and presented the findings of their research in a presentation entitled "Empathy as an Antecedent of Social Justice Behavior." Current results indicate that empathy is a strong prediction of social justice attitudes even when controlling for previous employment, GPA, parent's income (SES), and gender. He anticipates that this work will form the basis for his thesis. Additionally, Matthew accepted an internship with TIAA-CREF for talent management for this summer.
Second-year IOHRM student Sarah Light presented a poster based on her thesis research at SEPA (Southeastern Psychological Association) in Nashville, TN on March 6th. The poster was titled "The influence of Candidate Sex, Incumbent Sex, and Job Position on Hiring Decisions in an Experimental Paradigm". No statistically significant main effects were found for either candidate sex or incumbent sex. Job position resulted in statistically significant effects for starting salary and hirability but not for competence and conscientious. These findings suggests that characteristics of the job position may be more influential on evaluations of job candidates than are the sex of either the job candidate or the job incumbent.
Sarah Light with research poster
