Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 18 Issue 5

Trends in organisations and selection: an introduction

Richard Kwiatkowski

This article introduces the special issue “Beyond psychometrics: assessment for the new millennium” and further speculates on how a number of organisational trends may influence…

Assessing self‐awareness: some issues and methods

Clive Fletcher, Caroline Bailey

Multi‐source processes have been increasingly adopted by organisations in recent years and most projections suggest this trend will continue. As a developmental technique, one…

Measuring emotional intelligence: content, construct and criterion‐related validity

Victor Dulewicz, Malcolm Higgs, Mark Slaski

Many authors claim there is a paucity of evidence for the validity of measures of emotional intelligence (EI). This paper summarises existing information on the reliability and…

Beyond psychometrics: Measurement, non‐quantitative structure, and applied numerics

Paul Barrett

A statement from Michell (Michell, J., “Normal science, pathological science, and psychometrics”, Theory and Psychology, Vol. 10 No. 5, 2000, pp. 639‐67), “psychometrics is a…

Brainsex and occupation: the role of serendipity in the genesis of an idea

Ernest Govier

This paper sets out the events that led to the development of the hypothesis that brains are sexed and that this, at least in part, underlies the sex differentiation that is…

Antecedents of adult wellbeing: adolescent religiosity and health

Terence Martin, Bruce Kirkcaldy, Georg Siefen

An extant of literature has demonstrated an apparent connection between religiosity and physical and psychological health, yet there is a scarcity of studies focussing on the…