Leniency Bias in Performance Ratings: The Big-Five Correlates.

Some researchers assume that employees' personality characteristics affect leniency in rating others and themselves. However, little research has investigated these two tendencies at the same time. In the present study we developed one index for other-rating leniency and another one for self-rating leniency.

Research in industrial and organizational psychology from 1963 to 2007: changes, choices, and trends.

The authors conducted a content analysis of all articles published in the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology from January 1963 to May 2007 (N = 5,780) to identify the relative attention devoted to each of 15 broad topical areas and 50 more specific subareas in the field of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology. Results revealed that (a) some areas have become more (or less) popular over time, whereas others have not changed much, and (b) there are some lagged relationships between important societal issues that involve people and work settings (i.e.

The Effects of Role Playing in a Program to Modify Attitudes Toward Black Employees.

As part of a one-day management training exercise designed to modify attitudes toward race in the working environment, 2292 male and female, white and black managers completed a role playing exercise built around five statistically derived racial awareness factors. On three of the five factors those who role played supporting views on a designated factor ranked first in amount of change on that factor, as measured by pre- and postquestionnaires.