Please see below for a call for papers for a special issue of Human Resource Management Review concerning indirect measures and implicit processing. The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2011.
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Call for Papers
Special Issue: Indirect Measurement of Implicit Processes in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior
Journal: Human Resource Management Review
Editor: Nathan A. Bowling, Wright State University
Co-Editor: Russell E. Johnson, Michigan State University
Much of the extant research in human resource management (HRM) and organizational behavior (OB) uses direct self-report measures of personality, attitudes, and behaviors. Recent research, however, has highlighted the potential value of indirect measures that assess uncontrolled processes that occur outside of awareness. Examples of indirect measures include the implicit association test (IATs; Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998), the conditional reasoning test (CRT; James, McIntyre, Glisson, Bowler, & Mitchell, 2004), word completion tasks (Johnson, Tolentino, Rodopman, & Cho, 2010), and the affect misattribution procedure (AMP; Payne, Cheng, Govorun, & Stewart, 2005). Although examining implicit processes via indirect measures is popular among social psychologists, the use of such measures in HRM and OB has been relatively limited. The objective of the current special issue is to review what is known about indirect measurement and describe how indirect measures can be effectively utilized in HRM and OB research.
Example topics might include issues pertaining to the face validity or respondent buy-in regarding indirect measures, how to use specific indirect measurement techniques (e.g., IAT, AMP, neuroimaging instruments like the fMRI) for HRM/OB research, identifying situations where indirect measures are (and are not) appropriate, using indirect measures for admin purposes (e.g., selection, training), whether or not indirect measures and direct measures are tapping the same content and processes, and indirect measures as a means of combating response distortion.
Although we are especially interested in theoretical/conceptual submissions that advance the literature on indirect measurement as it applies to HRM/OB, we will also consider empirically-based submissions. Please submit a copy of your manuscript to Nathan A. Bowling (e-mail: nathan.bowling@wright.edu) by April 1, 2011. Note that all submissions will undergo a thorough peer review process.