The Faculty of Business invites members of the campus community--students, faculty, and staff--to attend a virtual research presentation by Timothy Wingate for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Management position, with a focus on human resource management (HRM). 

Candidate Bio:

Tim Wingate is a Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership in Business at the Haskayne School of Business and a PhD Candidate in industrial/organizational psychology at the University of Calgary. Tim originally comes from New Brunswick and has lived on the East Coast for most of his life. His research focuses on employment interviews, various forms of work performance (e.g., organizational citizenship performance), and individual differences at work. His research has been published in the Journal of Business and Psychology, International Journal of Hospitality Management, and the Journal of Personnel Psychology, among others.

Presentation Title: Employment Interview Goals and Design

Abstract:

The employment interview is commonly defined as a personnel selection tool for assessing applicants’ knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs). However, interviewers may use the interview to serve more goals than assessing KSAs. If so, the interview might be designed differently to fulfill different goals. My research examines the prospect of multiple interview goals and design strategies. In this talk, I describe two studies of interview goals and design. The first study is an inductive qualitative examination of Human Resource Managers’ and Hiring Managers’ perspectives on interviewing. Building on this, the second study develops a quantitative measure of interview goals, and relates these goals to interview design elements. Findings from both studies suggest that the interview is used to serve a variety of staffing goals, and that interviews are commonly tailored to fulfill these goals. Overall, this work reduces the science-practice gap in selection by integrating practitioners’ perspectives into interview design.

The presentation will take place on January 19 from 1:00– 2:00 pm (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:  

https://upei.zoom.us/j/63331434297?pwd=QWpiUEcvaTlhL0MyNjc0OVhWNDVmdz09

Meeting ID: 633 3143 4297

Passcode: 097620

For further information, please contact Shelly Kavanagh at businessfac@upei.ca.