Using 1,500 employees across 214 firms, the researchers calculated the probability that a salesperson would be promoted to a management role based on their past performance, then compared it to their performance as a manager.
The digital revolution has produced a wide range of new tools for making quick and cheap inferences about human potential and predicting future work performance. However, there is little scientific research on many of these new assessment methods, which leaves human resources managers with no evidence to evaluate how useful they actually are.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, David Winsborough, Ryne A Sherman, and Robert Hogan
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
The “wisdom of the crowd” effect is the finding that the average estimate of a group can be more accurate than the estimate of an expert. This study discovered that even mild social influence can undermine the wisdom of the crowd effect in simple estimation tasks.
Jan Lorenz, Heiko Rauhut, Frank Schweitzer, and Dirk Helbing
This paper creates a theoretical framework for understanding the various phases of organizational growth and explores the implications these dynamics have for how leaders should manage change.
This paper explores the unrealized potential of artificial intelligence in human resource management and suggests how progress might be made. The authors identify several key challenges with using data science techniques to enhance HR practices.
Prasanna Tambe, Peter Cappelli, and Valery Yakubovich
The paper provides a systematic review of over 80 studies regarding diversity and its implications for how organizations should think about managing an increasingly diverse workforce.
Katherine Y. Williams and Charles A. O’Reilly, III
