The IOHRM program was well represented at this year’s River Cities Industrial-Organizational (RCIO) Psychology Conference at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, both in attendance and research presenters. Every year RCIO holds a poster session for all student attendees to share their current research, and this year three of our graduate students involved in our HR Science Team created posters for this event.
Cameron Brown and his research group have been collecting data from over 500 managers at University libraries across the United States. They asked these managers about the performance appraisal system they use for rating employees via likert-type questions, and also asked them to write about the strengths and weaknesses of their system in an open response question. The study seeks to gain further insights towards manager's perceptions of their performance appraisal system by combining quantitative and qualitative data into one cohesive story.
Katie Maness presented a research proposal on applicant reactions to the use of technology in the selection process. Her research group is specifically researching traditional selection procedures with face-to-face interviewing, versus resume screening and interviewing software which involve no human interaction. They are analyzing how applicants may react differently regarding their perceptions of procedural and distributive justice, litigation intentions, job pursuit intentions, and organization attractiveness. This group expects this relationship to be moderated by applicants' experience with computers and perceived self-efficacy in the interview.
Kirsten Montanari and her team are taking an innovative approach to the measurement of impression management. They believe that even though the extent to which an individual performs impression management behaviors is influenced by situational factors, it is also plausible that there is a dispositional component involved, as some people are more likely to engage in impression management behaviors than others. In order to gain more insight into this topic, a conditional reasoning test (CRT) was proposed in order to measure impression management propensity in the work context.
Congrats to all three students on their great posters, we cannot wait to see the finished products of their research!
Cameron Brown and research group with poster
