In "Teacher Incentives in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from India"--a paper presented at the National Center on Performance Incentives research to policy conference in February--Karthik Muralidharan (Harvard University) and Venkatesh Sundararaman (The World Bank) present findings from a randomized experiment conducted in…

Purpose: This study aims to explore the simultaneous impact of employees participation in non-technical training, technical training, and coaching on subsequent job performance, job involvement, and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: The present study was based on a sample of German call center employees and on a longitudinal,…

Resident Advisors (RAs) have a significant hand in helping students adjust and thrive in college life. Given the importance of selecting high-performing RAs, this study sought to examine how well various measures of intelligence (e.g., general, emotional) in addition to personality and additional "internal belief" characteristics predict…

Objective: To characterize the late adolescent and young adult outcomes of girls diagnosed with ADHD in childhood. Method: The study included 58 women from a larger longitudinal study of ADHD. A total of 34 (M = 19.97 years old) met "DSM" criteria for ADHD in childhood, whereas the remaining 24 (M = 19.83 years old) did not. Self- and…

Social psychological research on attitude/belief similarity points to perceived similarity between people as leading to greater attraction and more favorable evaluations. When applied to the area of performance evaluations, organizational research on raters and ratees has focused primarily on the characteristics of the participants of the…

Based on the idea that the relationship between a client and its advertising agency is primarily a "people" relationship, a study was undertaken to examine the factors that influence a client's satisfaction with its agency, particularly in the day-to-day, or maintenance, phase of the relationship. Data were taken from responses given by…

An increased need for better information about labor costs associated with many aspects of telephone company operation led to research by the Bell System on work time estimation methods. Several studies were conducted under different field conditions to test the concurrent validity of work time estimation data in comparison with two different…

A study of 204 managers in large organizations found that managers would prefer more participation than currently exists and that those managers who use participatory techniques have a favorable impact on employee performance and attitudes. There is much interest in participative management and usually the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. (JOW)

Available data yields an estimated validity of .27 for the Corrections Officer Interest Blank (COIB) as a predictor of job performance of corrections officers. The COIB is only weakly related to the job performance of juvenile counselors and has no relationship to the performance of probation officers. (JOW)

Reviews the hundreds of studies showing that general cognitive ability predicts job performance in all jobs. Shows that general cognitive ability predicts supervisor ratings and training success and that general cognitive ability predicts objective, rigorously content valid work sample performance with even higher validity. (Author/ABB)

The study compared attitudes of three groups of employers of the mentally retarded (employers of workers who either received (1) supported competitive employment services, (2) only job placement services, or (3) no known services). Employers were most satisfied with the performance of those retarded employees receiving supported competitive…

An understanding of the uses of metacognition provides a powerful tool toward developing quality and efficiency in task learning and performance. Specific thinking skill categories of attention, organization, and elaboration are described with examples of how specific techniques can optimize learning and job performance. (Author/JOW)

The underlying structure of ratings of clinical competence was investigated. The instrument consisted of 33 statements on clinical behavior filled out by directors of medical education programs at postgraduate training institutions. It was concluded that ratings of clinical competence represent a multidimensional construct involving at least three…

Interviewed 61 managers of Fortune 500 companies who reported the following problems with administering performance appraisals: (1) multiple use of the form; (2) subjectivity and inflated ratings; and (3) difficulties in defining objectives and in disseminating the evaluation to employees. (PD)

Reviews the performance of managerial task activities by mental health administrators. Analyzes variations in performance of these activities to determine the effects of institutional variables. Results showed significant associations of task performance and size of administrative staff, size of professional staff, industry/organization type, and…