A review of literature thought to be relevant for understanding situational contributions to ability performance relationships was conducted. When organizaions establish work conditions that facilitate task-relevant individual ability, then validity for ability measures, average performance levels, and levels of satisfaction will be high.…

Considers the use of social psychological variables like organizational identification as criteria in personnel selection research; examines how self image and perceived job characteristics are related to how much individuals value organizational identification. (Author)

Some "hidden" consequences of an organization's goals, practices, and procedures on the climates created for employees were reviewed, beginning with an exploration of some potential impacts of a lack of fit between goals and means to obtain goals on climate and eventual employee behavior, referring particularly to differences between product- and…

Presents a framework for understanding the etiology of organizational behavior, based on theory and research from interactional psychology, vocational psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, and organizational theory. Proposes that organizations are functions of the kinds of people they contain and that the people there are functions of…

This paper presents the view that both individual differences-oriented personnel selection researchers and situationally-oriented organizational behaviorists can profit from an examination of each other's theories and findings. Specifically, it is argued that (1) personnel selection researchers will achieve increased levels of predictive validity…

The benefits of clustering organizations into types were discussed, and a method for clustering life insurance agencies by climate profiles was presented. Clusters of life insurance agencies were identified on the basis of manager, assistant manager, and already-employed ("old") agents' climate perceptions. Agency success, including production of…

The study was concerned with the persistent problem in conducting person/situation research--the identification of relevant dimensions or features of the situation. Since the usual strategy for discovering relevant perceptual dimension of organizational life is to ask organizational employees to respond to a set of predetermined questions, this…