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Papers by Chester Spell
Psychological Bulletin, Nov 1, 2016
Academy of Management Proceedings
Drug Testing in the Workplace, 1994
This chapter examines drug testing of employees and applicants for employment by work organizatio... more This chapter examines drug testing of employees and applicants for employment by work organizations, specifically as it is interrelated with other human resource management practices and organizational characteristics. A model is presented incorporating drug testing into the overall realm of human resource functions, and data from a research project involving a diverse sample of work sites in the state of Georgia are presented to illustrate further the role of drug testing in human resource management. In particular, the beliefs and attitudes of human resource managers toward drug testing as a human resource tool and the prevalence and form of drug testing over the variety of work-site types represented in the sample will be discussed. In addition, rates of positive drug tests are presented for the various types of testing programs present at these work sites.
Academy of Management Journal, 2005
Advances in Engineering Series, 2010
Journal of Management History, 1999
Recent management history has seen a surge in the number of ideas that supposedly represent the c... more Recent management history has seen a surge in the number of ideas that supposedly represent the cutting edge of management progress. This paper investigates the emergence of several of these management fashions. It examines the dissemination of fashions and the type of journals and areas from which particular fashions emerge. A bibliometric analysis is described that involved the following fashions: bench‐marking; pay for performance; quality circles; peer review; and MBO. The results of the analysis support hypotheses that fashions emerge in the popular press before academic literature and that some fashions emerge from sub‐fields before appearing throughout management publications.
Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2007
... CHESTER S. SPELL1*,y AND TODD ARNOLD2y 1School of Business-Camden, Rutgers University, Camden... more ... CHESTER S. SPELL1*,y AND TODD ARNOLD2y 1School of Business-Camden, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, USA 2Spears ... to influence the ultimate effect of a procedural justice judgment is organizational structure (Greenberg, 1993; Shepphard, Lewicki, & Minton ...
Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2000
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2001
This study explored the adoption of preemployment drug testing by 360 organizations. Survival mod... more This study explored the adoption of preemployment drug testing by 360 organizations. Survival models were developed that included internal organizational and labor market factors hypothesized to affect the likelihood of adoption of drug testing. Also considered was another set of variables that included social and political variables based on institutional theory. An event history analysis using Cox regressions indicated that both internal organizational and environmental variables predicted adoption of drug testing. Results indicate that the higher the proportion of drug testers in the worksite's industry, the more likely it would be to adopt drug testing. Also, the extent to which an organization uses an internal labor market, voluntary turnover rate, and the extent to which management perceives drugs to be a problem were related to likelihood of adoption of drug testing.
Journal of Management, 2007
This study uses a sample of 483 employees to investigate how fairness assessments and organizatio... more This study uses a sample of 483 employees to investigate how fairness assessments and organizational structure relate to employee mental health. The authors explain these effects using a social contagion framework, which describes the creation of group effects that would occur in addition to individual-level influences. They found that the interactive effects of distributive and procedural justice climates significantly influence individual feelings of both anxiety and depression. This effect goes beyond the main effects of justice at the individual level.
Journal of Management, 1996
Working from an institutional perspective, this study tested hypotheses about the relationships b... more Working from an institutional perspective, this study tested hypotheses about the relationships between workplace characteristics and health care cost containment practices. The analyses show that urban location of the workplace, number of employees, and education level of the workforce are related to three different cost containment strategies: the management of utilization with traditional indemnity insurance plans; offering of alternative health insurance plans (HMOs); and employee development relative to health care consumption. Workplaces with greater proportions of black or female employees were less likely and those with older workers were more likely to engage in employee development practices. The race, gender, and age variables were not significantly related to the other strategies. Unionization was not significantly related to any of the three strategies in the multivariate model. These findings are proposed to have implications for human resource management, as well as f...
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, 2002
Journal of Business and Psychology, 2005
This paper examines the contribution of perceived procedural and distributive justice to satisfac... more This paper examines the contribution of perceived procedural and distributive justice to satisfaction with benefits. A study of 237 employees in two manufacturing organizations shows that procedural justice is generally a better predictor of benefits satisfaction than distributive. However, for employees in an open culture, distributive justice is a significant predictor of benefits satisfaction, especially in relation to satisfaction with
Human Relations, 2001
... For example, quality control staff may also serve as trainers (Majchrzak, 1988), and machine ... more ... For example, quality control staff may also serve as trainers (Majchrzak, 1988), and machine operators now may do computer pro-gramming (Kelly, 1990). Butera and Thurman (1984), Gunn (1987) and Morgan (1988) found that variety of work was higher in automated plants. ...
Psychological Bulletin, Nov 1, 2016
Academy of Management Proceedings
Drug Testing in the Workplace, 1994
This chapter examines drug testing of employees and applicants for employment by work organizatio... more This chapter examines drug testing of employees and applicants for employment by work organizations, specifically as it is interrelated with other human resource management practices and organizational characteristics. A model is presented incorporating drug testing into the overall realm of human resource functions, and data from a research project involving a diverse sample of work sites in the state of Georgia are presented to illustrate further the role of drug testing in human resource management. In particular, the beliefs and attitudes of human resource managers toward drug testing as a human resource tool and the prevalence and form of drug testing over the variety of work-site types represented in the sample will be discussed. In addition, rates of positive drug tests are presented for the various types of testing programs present at these work sites.
Academy of Management Journal, 2005
Advances in Engineering Series, 2010
Journal of Management History, 1999
Recent management history has seen a surge in the number of ideas that supposedly represent the c... more Recent management history has seen a surge in the number of ideas that supposedly represent the cutting edge of management progress. This paper investigates the emergence of several of these management fashions. It examines the dissemination of fashions and the type of journals and areas from which particular fashions emerge. A bibliometric analysis is described that involved the following fashions: bench‐marking; pay for performance; quality circles; peer review; and MBO. The results of the analysis support hypotheses that fashions emerge in the popular press before academic literature and that some fashions emerge from sub‐fields before appearing throughout management publications.
Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2007
... CHESTER S. SPELL1*,y AND TODD ARNOLD2y 1School of Business-Camden, Rutgers University, Camden... more ... CHESTER S. SPELL1*,y AND TODD ARNOLD2y 1School of Business-Camden, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, USA 2Spears ... to influence the ultimate effect of a procedural justice judgment is organizational structure (Greenberg, 1993; Shepphard, Lewicki, & Minton ...
Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2000
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2001
This study explored the adoption of preemployment drug testing by 360 organizations. Survival mod... more This study explored the adoption of preemployment drug testing by 360 organizations. Survival models were developed that included internal organizational and labor market factors hypothesized to affect the likelihood of adoption of drug testing. Also considered was another set of variables that included social and political variables based on institutional theory. An event history analysis using Cox regressions indicated that both internal organizational and environmental variables predicted adoption of drug testing. Results indicate that the higher the proportion of drug testers in the worksite's industry, the more likely it would be to adopt drug testing. Also, the extent to which an organization uses an internal labor market, voluntary turnover rate, and the extent to which management perceives drugs to be a problem were related to likelihood of adoption of drug testing.
Journal of Management, 2007
This study uses a sample of 483 employees to investigate how fairness assessments and organizatio... more This study uses a sample of 483 employees to investigate how fairness assessments and organizational structure relate to employee mental health. The authors explain these effects using a social contagion framework, which describes the creation of group effects that would occur in addition to individual-level influences. They found that the interactive effects of distributive and procedural justice climates significantly influence individual feelings of both anxiety and depression. This effect goes beyond the main effects of justice at the individual level.
Journal of Management, 1996
Working from an institutional perspective, this study tested hypotheses about the relationships b... more Working from an institutional perspective, this study tested hypotheses about the relationships between workplace characteristics and health care cost containment practices. The analyses show that urban location of the workplace, number of employees, and education level of the workforce are related to three different cost containment strategies: the management of utilization with traditional indemnity insurance plans; offering of alternative health insurance plans (HMOs); and employee development relative to health care consumption. Workplaces with greater proportions of black or female employees were less likely and those with older workers were more likely to engage in employee development practices. The race, gender, and age variables were not significantly related to the other strategies. Unionization was not significantly related to any of the three strategies in the multivariate model. These findings are proposed to have implications for human resource management, as well as f...
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, 2002
Journal of Business and Psychology, 2005
This paper examines the contribution of perceived procedural and distributive justice to satisfac... more This paper examines the contribution of perceived procedural and distributive justice to satisfaction with benefits. A study of 237 employees in two manufacturing organizations shows that procedural justice is generally a better predictor of benefits satisfaction than distributive. However, for employees in an open culture, distributive justice is a significant predictor of benefits satisfaction, especially in relation to satisfaction with
Human Relations, 2001
... For example, quality control staff may also serve as trainers (Majchrzak, 1988), and machine ... more ... For example, quality control staff may also serve as trainers (Majchrzak, 1988), and machine operators now may do computer pro-gramming (Kelly, 1990). Butera and Thurman (1984), Gunn (1987) and Morgan (1988) found that variety of work was higher in automated plants. ...