Revisiting the Norm of Normality and Other “Established Facts” in the Field of Management
Herman Aguinis
John F. Mee Chair of Management
Kelley School of Business
Indiana University
http://mypage.iu.edu/~haguinis/
Business Cafe, 10:00AM - 11:30AM
Abstract
Although management is now a mature scientific field and much theoretical and methodological progress has been made in the past few decades, management scholars are not immune to received doctrines and axioms we “just know to be true.” This presentation will revisit an admittedly selected set of these “established facts” including the nature of the distribution of individual performance, linear versus non-linear effects, and, time permitting, other topics (e.g., outliers, corporate social responsibility, assessment of faculty impact, using standardized tests to predict job performance). For each “established fact,” the presentation will address its nature, the negative consequences associated with it, implications for research and practice, and best-practice recommendations in terms of how to address each. As part of the presentation, audience members will have an opportunity to discuss “established facts” in other substantive and methodological domains that should be revisited by future research.
About the Presenter
Herman Aguinis is the John F. Mee Chair of Management and the Founding Director of the Institute for Global Organizational Effectiveness in the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He has held visiting scholar positions at universities in Australia, China, France, Spain, Singapore, South Africa, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, and Argentina. His multi-disciplinary, multi-method, and multi-level research addresses human capital acquisition, development, and deployment, and research methods and analysis. His life and professional agenda is to have an impact on the academic community, but also on society at large and his research has been featured by Forbes, The Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek, and USA Today, among other media. He has published more than 120 journal articles (e.g., AMJ, AMR, AMP, AMLE, AOM Annals, SMJ, JAP) and five books including Performance Management (3rd edition), Applied Psychology in Human Resource Management (7th edition), and Regression Analysis for Categorical Moderators, delivered more than 110 presentations at universities in about 20 countries, and secured US$5 million in extramural funds. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management (AOM), American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He received the AOM Research Methods Division Distinguished Career Award for lifetime contributions and the Entrepreneurship Division IDEA Thought Leader Award. In addition, he received best-article-of-the-year awards from Academy of Management Perspectives, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Personnel Psychology. He is also the recipient of Indiana University’s 2014 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Building Bridges Award for promoting equality, equity, diversity, and justice. He served as editor-in-chief of Organizational Research Methods and guest editor for special issues of Journal of Management on bridging micro and macro research domains and Personnel Psychology on corporate social responsibility. He is currently serving a 3-year term as the President of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management (AOM affiliate) and is a candidate for the position of President of the Academy of Management (Spring 2015 election).
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