Our commitment to research that has both practical utility and theoretical meaningfulness is reflected in the research projects conducted by our faculty and students. Below is a partial list of research projects that faculty and students have recently conducted:

• Examining desired leadership traits and behaviors as a function of national culture and organizational policies and practices
• Taking a multilevel approach to understand the relationships between OCBs, service climate, and customer satisfaction
• A multinational study investigating the cultural dimension of Tightness-Looseness, the extent to norms are clearly defined and reliably imposed within cultures
• Application of neural networks for modeling nonlinear relationships
• The roles of individualism and collectivism in determining bargaining and negotiation process and outcomes
• Distant leadership in high stress situations at a regional shock trauma medical center
• Examining the role of gender and relational self-construals on negotiation processes and outcomes
• Investigating metaphoric maps and their influence on negotiation processes and outcomes
  
• Black-White test-taking differences and the types of attributions people make from selection decisions
• The Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA) model applied to sorority recruitment
• Assessing organizational Climate for Diversity (CFD) within the framework of collective climates, and relating this to individual outcomes
• Investigating followers’ perceptions of female leaders
• Exploring racial differences in cognitive ability tests through an integration of the literatures on stereotype threat and face validity
• Assessing the role personality plays in job applicants’ reactions to the selection process and selection outcome
• Assessing sexual harassment within teams and its relationship with team processes and performance
  
• Exploring diverse individuals’ justice perceptions and their relationship with attributions for discrimination
  
• The influence of culture on situational judgment test responses
  
• Exploring the effects of explanations and individual differences on fairness perceptions
  
• Examining individual differences in perceptions of test banding
  
• Determining the characteristics of leaders that help create and maintain fair climates
  
• Looking at the effects of cultural values on fairness perceptions
  
• Developing and validating a scale aimed at measuring organizational reliability
  
• Validating a strategic job analysis (SJA)