Nye Christopher D. - Vocational interests in the workplace : rethinking behavior at work

Vocational Interests in the Workplace is an essential new work, tying together past literature with contemporary research to present the most comprehensive coverage on vocational interests to date. With increasing recognition of the importance of vocational interests and their relevance to the workplace, this book emphasizes the strong links between vocational interests and work behavior. It proposes new models and approaches that facilitate thorough exploration of the implications of this relationship between interests and practice.

The authors, drawing on knowledge and experience from a range of professional backgrounds, cover essential topics, including: interest measurement; personnel selection; motivation and performance; expertise; meaningful work; effects of a global business environment; diversity; and the ongoing development of interests through adulthood to retirement.

Endorsed by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology board, this book is a valuable resource for researchers, professionals, and educators in the fields of human resources, organizational behaviour, and industrial or organizational psychology.

Christopher D. Nye is Assistant Professor of Organizational Psychology at Michigan State University, USA. He has received awards from the University of Illinois, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the International Personnel Assessment Council for his work. More recently, Dr. Nye was awarded the Early Career Award from the Academy of Management Research Methods Division. He has also been a Consortium Research Fellow for the Defense Manpower Data Center and a Senior Consortium Research Fellow for the U.S. Army Research Institute.

James Rounds is Professor of Educational Psychology and Psychology and College of Education Distinguished Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His publications have appeared in numerous journals. He has received the American Psychological Association John L. Holland Award for outstanding achievement in career and personality research, American Educational Research Association Outstanding Research Award in Counseling and has been designated a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Nye, Christopher D., editor. | Rounds, James, editor.

Title: Vocational interests in the workplace : rethinking behavior at work / edited by Christopher D. Nye and James Rounds.

Description: 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2019. |

Series: SIOP organizational frontiers series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018060311| ISBN 9781138932890 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138932883 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315678924 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: Vocational guidance. | Interest (Psychology)

Classification: LCC HF5381 .V566 2019 | DDC 658.3/85dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018060311

ISBN: 978-1-138-93289-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-93288-3 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-67892-4 (ebk)

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Sarena Bhatia is a talent consultant in the Leadership Service Line at Aon. She consults with companies in diverse industries in the areas of leadership assessment and development, training design, competency modeling, performance management, and career pathing. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University.

Alexander P. Burgoyne received his M.A. from Michigan State University, where he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in cognition and cognitive neuroscience. His research focuses on individual differences in skill acquisition and expertise.

M. Teresa Cardador received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Gies College of Business, and is currently Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on identity, meaningfulness, and gender at work; she is particularly interested in these issues as they relate to the work and career experiences of women in male-dominated occupations.

Oleksandr S. Chernyshenko received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently Associate Professor at the Nanyang Business School in Singapore. He researches various applied measurement topics and teaches talent acquisition and management courses to undergraduates, postgraduates, and executives. He was an Academic Director of Nanyang Fellows MBA and Nanyang EMBA programs, and now serves as the Associate Dean of Executive Education.

Filip De Fruyt received his Ph.D. from Ghent University and is currently appointed as Senior Full Professor in Differential Psychology and Personality Assessment at Ghent University in Belgium. He is holding the Institute Ayrton Senna (IAS) Endowed University Chair at Ghent University, studying the assessment and development of living and employability skills in youth. His research spans a broad domain including adaptive and maladaptive traits, interests, cross-cultural manifestations of personality, and applied personality psychology.

David Z. (Zach) Hambrick received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000, and is currently Professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. His research focuses on the origins of human expertise, and especially the interplay between basic abilities and training in complex skill.

Suzanne E. Hidi is Adjunct Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Her early work focused on academic writing, followed by investigations of motivation in general and interest development in specific. Although her work has primarily focused on educational practice, she also addresses the applications of these findings in the work place. Her current work addresses the integration of neuroscientific and psychological research in the area of human motivation, performance and information search.

Robert Hogan, president of Hogan Assessment Systems, is an international authority on personality assessment, leadership, and organizational effectiveness. He was McFarlin Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Tulsa for 14 years. Prior to that, he was Professor of Psychology and Social Relations at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Hogan received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in personality assessment.

Leaetta M. Hough is president and founder of the Dunnette Group, and a past president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and of FABBS (Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences). She is best known for her independent thinking and work challenging received wisdom about what is and is not useful for predicting important outcomes in organizational settings. Dr. Hough received a doctorate in psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1981.