Description
This research seminar series is an opportunity for faculty to present early-stage research projects and collect colleagues' feedback.
Today's speaker is Dr. In-Sue Oh from Temple University. He is widely recognized for transforming how we understand personnel selection, human capital, and meta-analytic methods. His research provides the empirical bedrock for how modern organizations identify talent and drive firm performance.
With more than 100 scholarly publications—roughly half in the field’s most elite outlets including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management—Dr. Oh’s research delivers extraordinary impact. His meta-analyses on transformational leadership, personality–performance links, and upper-echelons theory rank among the most-cited works in the discipline, placing him in the top 2% of the world’s most-cited scientists in business and management (2021–2025).
He will be presenting his work titled " Is the Validity (or Value) of Personality Overestimated or Underestimated?”
Abstract
Dispositional influences on employee performance—it's one of the most foundational and enduring topics in HR/OB and related research fields. Yet, if you read some of the more pessimistic reviews out there, you might walk away thinking personality traits are practically useless for predicting how well someone will actually do their job. I've always fundamentally disagreed with that premise. I've long believed the relationship between personality and performance is far more meaningful than early research suggested. During my talk, I'm going to share a programmatic line of research that asks a central question: Why isn't that relationship stronger? I'll walk you through how I’ve been addressing this puzzle across multiple studies and give you a look into some of my ongoing projects.
Guest Speaker Dr. In-Sue Oh
Location
BB 1.01.20D
Category:
Campus Events
