Performance Measurement ― Current Perspectives And Future Challenges

Over the course of the past few years, teaching, research, and practice has underscored the importance of performance measurement and criterion development as topics of great interest, considerable debate, and some misunderstanding. It has also become clear that the field needs to address a compendium of research, applications, and issues. Performance Measurement: Current Perspectives and Future Challenges brings together internationally recognized leaders in the field and each examines the subject matter in a way that has never been done--focusing on the dynamic nature of work and the tremendous demands being placed on assessment and measurement as core organizational activities. It also uniquely uses their expertise to provide critical pointers to not only the practical implications of work in the field, but also to the new and continuing issues to be addressed and research to be conducted.

The book will be useful to both scientists and practitioners.

Winston Bennett, Jr. is a Senior Research Psychologist with the Warfighter Readiness Research Division of the Human Effectiveness Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. His research interests include training needs assessment methods, training systems design and evaluation, individual and team performance measurement and modeling, and skill decay and retention. He received his Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from Texas A&M University in 1995.

Charles E. Lance received his Ph.D. in psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is now Professor of I/O psychology and Chair of the Applied Psychology Program at The University of Georgia. His work in the areas of measurement and prediction of performance, research methods, and structural equation modeling has appeared in such journals as Psychological Methods, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management and Multivariate Behavioral Research. Dr. Lance is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the American Psychological Association and is former President of the Atlanta Society for Applied Psychology. He is currently Associate Editor of Organizational Research Methods, and has served on the editorial boards of Personnel Psychology, Group & Organization Management, and Human Resource Management Review.
David J. Woehr is a Professor at The University of Tennessee Industrial and Organizational Psychology program. He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychology Society. His research focusing on performance measurement, managerial assessment centers, and work ethic often appears in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Management and the Journal of Vocational Behavior. He received his Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1988.