Socioanalytic theory of personality provides a perspective on human nature based on insights from: Charles Darwin about human evolution; Sigmund Freud about unconscious motivation; and George Herbert Mead about the dynamics of social interaction. This chapter presents the basic assumptions of socioanalytic personality theory, reviews supporting empirical evidence and practical implications of t...

A real-world personnel selection or job placement problem based on a two-way choice frame in an enterprise-and-school partnership system is addressed in this paper. This study aims to develop a job placement intervention by taking into account the fuzzy assessment results of the persons involved on both sides to facilitate placement opportunities and satisfaction so that the problem is tackled ...

This study examined the concept of cognitive overqualification, the possession of a higher level of cognitive ability than is required for a given job. Among 156 US based customer service representatives, cognitive overqualification was found to be associated with job dissatisfaction, but was only weakly related to measures of job and training performance. The results of this study provide supp...

Personnel differentiation has been viewed as one of the immeasurable competitive advantage for the service sector in the world. Such advantage or human resource based advantage is difficult for a competitor to imitate because the source of the advantage may not be very apparent to an outsider. If the service organization wants to achieve competitive advantage they must differentiate their perso...

At the beginning of World War II, Leonard Browne volunteered for service again, in the psychiatric work of the Army, and was amongst the first group of specialists to be called up. He earned a great reputation for solid reliability, and for imaginative ideas to improve morale and prevent breakdown. He had a big share in the pioneering of young soldier battalions, with their special arrangements...

The psychological meaning of integrity test scores has been explored predominantly in relation to the five-factor model of personality (FFM). Two alternative positions on this topic can be identified in the literature which state, respectively, that integrity tests measure (a) a higher-order factor of personality covering three FFM dimensions or (b) a linear composite of numerous facets from va...

Although selection tests are typically validated against only a single criterion, calls in the personnel selection literature urge the examination of selection devices across multiple criteria. This study examined biodata criterion-related validity across multiple performance criteria in a sample of 6,036 automated systems controller applicants. The performance measures examined included a pape...

In this paper, we are interested in the effect of pay incentives on labour turnover and productivity. Particularly we use personnel data from a panel of 400 shops from a UK retail chain. The firm uses perfectly flat hourly wage system with no reward for tenure or individual productivity. This system leads to the phenomenon of negative selection, where only employees with lower outside options r...

OBJECTIVE We review historical and more recent efforts in boredom research and related fields. A framework is presented that organizes the various facets of boredom, particularly in supervisory control settings, and research gaps and future potential areas for study are highlighted. BACKGROUND Given the ubiquity of boredom across a wide spectrum of work environments--exacerbated by increasing...

The recruitment of new personnel is one of the most essential business processes which affect the quality of human capital within any company. It is highly essential for the companies to ensure the recruitment of right talent to maintain a competitive edge over the others in the market. However IT companies often face a problem while recruiting new people for their ongoing projects due to lack ...