Avoid Fit-Hacking Your Statistical Model There is a well-known saying that if you torture the data long enough it will confess to anything. This reflects … Continue reading >Avoid Fit-Hacking Your Statistical Model
Technology Is Revolutionizing College Textbooks Last week was exciting for me. Now available is the 9th edition of my textbook Industrial and Organizational Psychology Research … Continue reading >Technology Is Revolutionizing College Textbooks
Managers Strive to Be Organizational Climate Engineers One of my USF executive doctor of business administration students, Dale Crawford, pointed out that managers strive to be organizational … Continue reading >Managers Strive to Be Organizational Climate Engineers
Quality of Science Not Writing Is Important I was excited to come across a just-published paper this morning in a top management journal on a topic I … Continue reading >Quality of Science Not Writing Is Important
Schools Are Bringing Back Shop Class To Better Serve Students I have fond memories of shop class in middle school. It was required for all the boys for half a … Continue reading >Schools Are Bringing Back Shop Class To Better Serve Students
College Students Need to Think Not Memorize I read a Wall Street Journal column recently about new research about how AI does what it does. Researchers have … Continue reading >College Students Need to Think Not Memorize
Academics and Practitioners Create Better Research Together I was thrilled to be part of a team of practitioners and academics who wrote a paper about how academics … Continue reading >Academics and Practitioners Create Better Research Together
A Test of Authentic Leadership Theory with a Training Intervention Authentic leadership is an approach that is popular with both academic researchers and practicing managers. It is a frequent topic … Continue reading >A Test of Authentic Leadership Theory with a Training Intervention
The Renaissance Period for Organizational Research Last week as I watched Becoming Led Zeppelin on Netflix I was reminded about what an exciting and creative period … Continue reading >The Renaissance Period for Organizational Research
An AI Ethical Issue When Selecting People Last week I attended the Teaching and Learning with AI conference in Orlando, Florida. One session that got me thinking … Continue reading >An AI Ethical Issue When Selecting People
Manipulate Something To Make a Causal Inference Causal inference is a simple idea, right? You do this and that happens. It winds up, though, that in science, … Continue reading >Manipulate Something To Make a Causal Inference
How to Write for Organizational Science Journals I recently saw a LinkedIn post by Jason Thatcher that provided seven helpful sources on academic writing in the organizational … Continue reading >How to Write for Organizational Science Journals
Faculty Can Make Doctoral Training Better Last week I came across a LinkedIn discussion about how doctoral programs are often unnecessarily stressful. Many people commented about … Continue reading >Faculty Can Make Doctoral Training Better
Has Organizational Research Become Meaningless? Last week I decide to update the readings for my USF executive Doctor of Business Administration class on organizational climate … Continue reading >Has Organizational Research Become Meaningless?
Based on Theory Means Little I just finished reading a methods paper and throughout they kept using the phrase “based on theory”. This is a … Continue reading >Based on Theory Means Little
What Is the Definition of Attribution in Psychology? People have an innate need to understand the reasons that things happen. One of the three fundamental human needs according … Continue reading >What Is the Definition of Attribution in Psychology?
Organizational Culture Requires Direct Communication Not long ago I attended a leadership training session at Tampa General Hospital. What struck me most was a comment … Continue reading >Organizational Culture Requires Direct Communication
The Three Important Elements in Career Advising When I was in high school, students were prepared for many career directions. Every day I passed the school’s automotive … Continue reading >The Three Important Elements in Career Advising
