The coordination team of the European Master on Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology WOP-P, will organize a
meeting on scientific research and publishing in scientific journals.
The professor Dr. Deniz S. Ones (University of Minnesota) USA will give her presentation on the 27th of October 2006
at 16,00 hours, in the department of Social Psychology (University of Barcelona).
The information reported in the following lines is more extensively presented on the Web page of the prof. Dr. Deniz S. Ones.
Most of the research that Denis S. Ones conducts falls under one or more of the following categories:
- Testing and counterproductive work behaviors
- Personality measurement in industrial psychology
- Personnel selection and staffing
- International- & cross-cultural industrial psychology
- Psychometric meta-analysis & applied methodology
Her research stream on integrity tests and counterproductive work behaviors (e.g., theft, drug and alcohol use, property damage, accidents) has focused on the validities of integrity tests for various behaviors on the job. She has also examined mean gender, race, and differences on integrity tests. Her doctoral dissertation research examined the construct validity evidence for integrity tests. Over the last few years, she has worked on several projects examining validities of integrity tests for absenteeism, turnover and violence on the job.
Her research on personality measurement in industrial, work, and organizational psychology has examined the validities of personality measures for predicting job performance, and social desirability influences on psychometric properties of personality scales. In another vein, her colleagues and she have examined bandwidth/fidelity trade-off as it applies to personality inventory use in personnel selection. Currently projects are being completed meta-analytically examining: (a) validities of personality scales (including Managerial Potential scales) for predicting work behaviors among managerial samples; (b) race, sex, and age differences on personality scales; and (c) the heritability of the Big Five personality dimensions and social desirability scales. Various projects examining the dimensionality of multiple personality inventories are also underway. Another project focuses on presidential personality. Much of her research in personality is helping to advance a theory of conscientiousness at work.
In personnel selection, she has devoted much of her research career to examining the validity of personality measures (including integrity tests) and cognitive ability for predicting performance at work. Recently, her focus in this area has been selection for public safety jobs (police officers, sheriffs, firemen) as well as on identifying individuals that have the potential to be effective executives and managers. Much of this work has benefited from her collaboration with her colleagues Leaetta Hough and Chockalingam Viswesvaran. Their most recent work asks the question whether there is a general factor across different job performance dimensions.
Most of her research in the international area is simply an extension of her work on personality, integrity, and testing for personnel selection for use in other cultures. She is currently collaborating with international colleagues on a number of long term projects for translating tests into other languages as well as cross-cultural psychometric comparisons among measures used in personnel selection. Another important stream of international industrial, work, and organizational psychology research she has conducted has focused on factors contributing to expatriate worker adjustment and job performance. They have also explored the role of personality factors in explaining both overseas adjustment and job performance both from a theoretical point of view and based on empirical data from expatriates.
The methodological studies she undertakes are a response to the needs of particular studies she is conducting in personnel selection, personality measurement and integrity testing. The dominant methodology that she has utilized in most of her research has been meta-analysis. In her previous work, she outlined a new approach to theory testing: Combining psychometric meta-analysis and structural equations modeling. She is particularly hopeful about this new technique in that it will enable us to answer many substantive issues.
Currently, she is also co-editing the International Journal of Selection and Assessment (with Jesus F. Salgado) . In 2001, her colleagues Neil Anderson, Handan Kepir Sinangil, Chockalingam Viswesvaran and she edited the two volume Handbook of Industrial, Work, and Organizational Psychology . The two volume set includes over 40 chapters addressing the entire spectrum of topics examined in industrial, work, and organizational psychology from some of the most eminent researchers in their fields.
For further information about the Prof. Dr Deniz S. Ones and her publications, please visit her Web page in the following link.
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