Professor David Jones Presenting Five Papers

Dr. David Jones, Professor of Management, has had five papers accepted for presentation at three conferences this year.

He is presenting two papers at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology conference in Los Angeles in April. One of these papers is titled "Workplace revenge: A calculated response to mistreatment" and is part of Dr. Jones' primary program of research on perceptions of unfairness and revenge in the workplace. In this study, Professor Jones focuses on situational variables (e.g., power structures, conflict history) and individual differences (e.g., personality variables relating to revenge propensities) that may explain why some revenge responses are carefully planned, yet others are more immediate or impulsive.

Professor Jones is presenting two other papers at the Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology conference in Montreal in May. In one of these papers, Dr. Jones and his co-author, Sarah Carroll, University of Calgary tested a practical approach for identifying job applicants who try to appear more favorable by distorting their responses in an employee selection context.

Professor Jones and two co-authors, Dr. Janine Keown-Gerrard, University of Calgary, and Dr. Lorne Sulsky, Wilfrid Laurier University, will also be presenting a paper at the Academy of Management meeting in Honolulu in August. The authors conducted two studies examining the role of attributions in performance appraisal. In one of these studies, Dr. Jones and his colleagues trained managers to consider situational constraints on employee performance and found that, relative to a control group, the trained managers were better able to consider situational constraints while evaluating employee performance.