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Affirmative Action. Graduate students Kate Unterborn and Geeta D'Souza are working with Professor Debra Poole and me on an experiment that looks at the effects of facial features and affirmative action policies on hiring decisions. We are interesting in learning whether pressure to hire minorities affects people’s judgments in classifying people (with varying degrees of minority facial features) as minorities. We will soon be looking at how facial features interact with qualifications and immigrant status.Personnel Selection. Graduate students Matt Monnot and Anne Roscoe are working with me on a study that examines whether various banding models of selection empirically differ from the results of top-down selection. Because most organizations rarely get their top choices, we are hypothesizing that the results of top down selection (i.e., which candidates actually accept job offers) do not empirically differ in quality from randomly selecting applicants from the organization's short list. Leveraging Women’s Talents in Organizations. Jennifer Spranger – a recent CMU Ph.D. and assistant professor at Grand Valley State University – and I are writing a book, tentatively titled Female Assets, about management interventions that can increase the appreciation and use of women’s talents in organizations. Using ideas from biology, evolutionary psychology, and management, Female Assets provides insight into women’s talents and how, when properly leveraged, they can increase profits and organizational effectiveness. For example, compared to men, women are better task jugglers and more conscientious, interpersonally skilled, collaborative, and egalitarian. Yet the qualities of women are under-appreciated and under-used in the business world. This is not just bad for women, but bad for organizations. This book will show how these qualities of women are valuable assets to organizations and how managers can leverage them to their advantage. Immigration and Economic Productivity. Professor Larry Brunner, from CMU’s Economics Department, and I received a grant from the Earhart Foundation to conduct a review of the literature on the impact of immigration on economic progress. We are finishing the project and writing a paper that argues that US immigration policy would be more effective if it applied models from personnel selection to the selection of immigrants. | |||||||
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