What Is the Difference Between Mediator and Moderator Variables? No two statistical concepts are more often confused than mediator and moderator variables. Both are “third” variables that affect the … Continue reading >What Is the Difference Between Mediator and Moderator Variables?
Statistical Modeling Methods Are the Real Trojan Horse When I was a graduate student in the1970s, articles were focused on problems of organizations, and statistical methods were simple. … Continue reading >Statistical Modeling Methods Are the Real Trojan Horse
How To Pick An Outlet for Academic Publishing When I was a graduate student, there were only a handful of peer-reviewed journals in my field of industrial-organizational (I-O) … Continue reading >How To Pick An Outlet for Academic Publishing
AI Is the Latest Disruptive Technology Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the Academia Meets Practice (AMP) conference at the Muma College of Business in … Continue reading >AI Is the Latest Disruptive Technology
What Is the Ecological Fallacy Definition? When we collect data on people, those people are members of groups. Employees, for example, are members of teams and … Continue reading >What Is the Ecological Fallacy Definition?
Populations Are Important In Research Reports Last week I was browsing the posters at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) conference in Chicago. A … Continue reading >Populations Are Important In Research Reports
What Is Employee Resenteeism in the Workplace? I study how people feel about their jobs, so I was intrigued the other day when I came across the … Continue reading >What Is Employee Resenteeism in the Workplace?
It Is Time We Started Studying Skilled Trades Workers With rising college costs and limited career prospects for many majors, there has been a sharp decline in the number … Continue reading >It Is Time We Started Studying Skilled Trades Workers
Why the Media Has Lost Faith in Science We see are seeing increasing numbers of media stories about problems with peer-reviewed scientific research. Whether it is a story … Continue reading >Why the Media Has Lost Faith in Science
Supervisor Requests for Unethical Actions: New Research Has a supervisor ever asked you to do something unethical–something that made you uncomfortable? Did you do it or did … Continue reading >Supervisor Requests for Unethical Actions: New Research
Theory Salting in the Organizational Sciences I have been around the I-O psychology/management field long enough to see things evolve from its origins in behaviorism where … Continue reading >Theory Salting in the Organizational Sciences
A Peer Reviewer Crisis in the Organizational Sciences Academic journals maintain rigor by soliciting evaluations by two or more experts who serve as peer reviewers for each paper … Continue reading >A Peer Reviewer Crisis in the Organizational Sciences
Leadership Styles Are Important to Followers The leadership behavior of organization managers has both positive and negative impacts on their direct reports. The academic research literature … Continue reading >Leadership Styles Are Important to Followers
Organizational Climate and Culture Are Important I teach a course on organizational climate where an issue we frequently discuss is the difference between organizational climate and … Continue reading >Organizational Climate and Culture Are Important
How to Market Your Research When I was a young academic I read a chapter by Edwin Boring who argued that marketing academic work is … Continue reading >How to Market Your Research
Viewpoint Diversity Is Good for Students There has been a lot of talk lately about the need for viewpoint diversity. Critics have complained that colleges have … Continue reading >Viewpoint Diversity Is Good for Students
Making the Most of Organizational Policies It is remarkable how so many managers consider policies as their go-to tool for organizational change. Bring them an organizational … Continue reading >Making the Most of Organizational Policies
Most Viewed Paul Spector Blogs of 2023 It has become a tradition that my first blog of the year is an overview of the most viewed Paul … Continue reading >Most Viewed Paul Spector Blogs of 2023
