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Papers by Neil Anderson

Organizing Changes and Innovations: Challenges for European Work and Organizational Psychology

is an award winning teacher and researcher who conducts research about relationships at work incl... more is an award winning teacher and researcher who conducts research about relationships at work including new hire onboarding, recruitment, reactions to selection, overqualification, mentoring, and leadership published in outlets such as the Bio: Julie M. McCarthy (Ph.D., Western University Canada) conducts research on personnel selection, work-life balance, and workplace anxiety. In the corporate sector, Julie has developed performance management systems, personnel selection tools, and training programs. Her work is published in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Psychological Science.

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

There is an implicit undercurrent in the HRM literature that the role of present-day HR director ... more There is an implicit undercurrent in the HRM literature that the role of present-day HR director has become ‘strategic’ as opposed to ‘routine’, as in the past. In this article, we empirically test these assertions in the context of the country of Jordan – a context within which little past research into HRM has been undertaken. The design includes a detailed survey instrument sent to all financial firms within the country. We find that the reliance on routine functions has indeed fallen for HR directors surveyed; however, there is only weak evidence to support the theory that the perceived importance of strategic functions has increased substantially. Results show that male HR directors and those longer serving, with higher qualifications, and those working for companies with lower employee turnover are more likely to rate the importance of the most strategic HR functions as ‘high’. Neither company size nor years of establishment moderated this relationship. The empirical evidence ...

Applicant Reactions in

International Journal of Selection and Assessment

This paper reports findings from a survey into applicant reactions of working adults in Saudi Ara... more This paper reports findings from a survey into applicant reactions of working adults in Saudi Arabia. A sample of 193 participants from four job functions was obtained, with measures of organizational attractiveness, core‐self evaluation, and applicant reactions to four popular selection methods in the country – interviews, résumés, work sample tests, and references – being included. Findings indicate a notably similar pattern of preference reactions to previous studies in other (Western) countries, affirming arguments for so‐called reaction generalizability. Work sample tests were rated the most favorably followed by interviews, résumés, and references. For specific procedural dimensions, résumés were perceived as the most favorable, followed by work sample tests, interviews, and references. Several significant differences were found across job functions, mostly for interviews and résumés. Significant effects were found between reactions and organizational attractiveness, and betwe...

Arabia. A sample of 193 participants from four job functions was obtained, with measures of organ... more Arabia. A sample of 193 participants from four job functions was obtained, with measures of organizational attractiveness, core-self evaluation, and applicant reactions to four popular selection methods in the country -interviews, résumés, work sample tests, and referencesbeing included. Findings indicate a notably similar pattern of preference reactions to previous studies in other (Western) countries, affirming arguments for so-called reaction generalizability. Work sample tests were rated the most favorably followed by interviews, résumés, and references. For specific procedural dimensions, résumés were perceived as the most favorable, followed by work sample tests, interviews, and references. Several significant differences were found across job functions, mostly for interviews and résumés. Significant effects were found between reactions and organizational attractiveness, and between reactions and core-self evaluation, including some interaction effects. Implications for future research and for practice in employee selection are considered in the conclusion.

International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 2014

Although assessment centers (AC) continue to spread to Asian countries, no published study exists... more Although assessment centers (AC) continue to spread to Asian countries, no published study exists that evaluates AC practices in an Asian country, and none within the largest populous country within the region of Indonesia. Therefore, we conducted an exploratory survey of Indonesian organizations to examine how ACs are designed, executed, implemented, and evaluated in the target country. In this article, we show first how political, economic, and cultural circumstances have an impact on the use of AC programs in Indonesia. Second, we report a broad spectrum of AC features within Indonesian organizations. Third, we compare selected results of our study with prior findings in other countries and regions to identify advantages and disadvantages in current Indonesian AC practices. Finally, implications for both future AC research and practice in both this region, and more widely, are discussed.

British journal of cancer, Jan 11, 2010

For over two decades, the Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) has been used in the United Kingdom t... more For over two decades, the Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) has been used in the United Kingdom to calculate risk scores and inform management about breast cancer patients. It is derived using just three clinical variables - nodal involvement, tumour size and grade. New scientific methods now make cost-effective measurement of many biological characteristics of tumour tissue from breast cancer biopsy samples possible. However, the number of potential explanatory variables to be considered presents a statistical challenge. The aim of this study was to investigate whether in ER+ tamoxifen-treated breast cancer patients, biological variables can add value to NPI predictors, to provide improved prognostic stratification in terms of overall recurrence-free survival (RFS) and also in terms of remaining recurrence free while on tamoxifen treatment (RFoT). A particular goal was to enable the discrimination of patients with a very low risk of recurrence. Tissue samples of 401 cases were anal...

Journal of clinical microbiology, 1999

In this study the detection rates of bacterial infection of hip prostheses by culture and noncult... more In this study the detection rates of bacterial infection of hip prostheses by culture and nonculture methods were compared for 120 patients with total hip revision surgery. By use of strict anaerobic bacteriological practice during the processing of samples and without enrichment, the incidence of infection by culture of material dislodged from retrieved prostheses after ultrasonication (sonicate) was 22%. Bacteria were observed by immunofluorescence microscopy in 63% of sonicate samples with a monoclonal antibody specific for Propionibacterium acnes and polyclonal antiserum specific for Staphylococcus spp. The bacteria were present either as single cells or in aggregates of up to 300 bacterial cells. These aggregates were not observed without sonication to dislodge the biofilm. Bacteria were observed in all of the culture-positive samples, and in some cases in which only one type of bacterium was identified by culture, both coccoid and coryneform bacteria were observed by immunoflu...

Managing Innovation and Change

Human Pathology, 1999

The aims of this investigation were to compare quantitative with qualitative analysis of fluoresc... more The aims of this investigation were to compare quantitative with qualitative analysis of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) centromere signals in interphase breast cancer cell nuclei and to evaluate the possible clinical utility of detecting numerical abnormalities of chromosomes 11 and 17 by FISH in the preoperative prediction of breast cancer histological grade. Commercial digoxigenin-labeled centromere probes to chromosomes 11 and 17 were hybridized to 69 malignant aspirates with histological follow-up. Aspirates were categorized as disomic or aneusomic for chromosomes 11 and 17 qualitatively; a subset of aspirates was also analyzed quantitatively. The quantitative and qualitative approaches resulted in almost identical categorisation. There was a significant association between the qualitative categorization of aspirates as aneusomic or disomic, the histologi-cal grade of the excised tumours (P = .0695, n = 69), and the cytological grade of the clinical aspirates (P = .006, n = 35). although histological grade III tumors were almost invariably polysomic for one or both chromosomes, polysomy was also detected in grade I and II tumors. Qualitative FISH analysis was shown to be more sensitive than cytological grading in predicting histological grade III but was of lower specificity and was therefore not clinically useful.

What precisely is HRM? How does it differ from long—established personnel management? Does this ‘lritbag’of policies and practices actually reap

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Effects of Anterior Hypothalamic Cuts on Growth-Hormone Responses to Pentobarbital and Morphine

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