As you are getting ready to start the quarter, we hope you can mark your calendars for COR’s first event of the quarter.

ACADEMIC SPEED-DATING

Friday, October 2, 12:30-2:00pm
Merage School of Business, SB1 5400, The Porter Colloquia Room

Our 2015-16 COR Kick-Off Event is an academic version of speed dating. As in the past years, we expect it to be both fun and generative. This is an opportunity to learn more about the interests of other COR members, to explore possible synergies and to receive some very quick feedback on your research. Here’s how it works:

• You come prepared to describe your research in 3 minutes or less.
• We form pairs of people (preferably those you have not met before, or haven’t talked in a while)
• The first person in a pair describes his/her research in 3 minutes and then we allow 2 minutes for a short Q&A. After 5 minutes, it is the second person’s turn to do the same.
• After 10 minutes, we form new pairs and start again.
• We continue for about 5 rotations.
• The remaining time can be used to continue the conversations that you wish to be longer.

A light lunch will be provided. Please don’t forget to RSVP to cor@uci.edu by Monday, September 28th, so that we don’t have too much or too little food.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Nina Bandelj and Melissa Mazmanian COR Directors

ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT COLLOQUIUM

Patricia Martinez
Loyola Marymount University
Associate Professor
Academic Affairs/College of Business Administration/Management

Host: Jone Pearce
Monday June 1st, 2015
3:30pm-5:00pm (reception to follow)
SB1 5400
(Lyman Porter Colloquia Room)

“Overqualification: An asset or liability in hiring decisions?”

Abstract:
Does excess education or experience hinder an applicant’s selection for a job interview? Depending upon the theoretical perspective adopted, possessing education or experience beyond a job’s requirements (over-qualification) can be perceived either as an asset or liability. The person-job fit literature suggests that overqualified applicants will be selected less often that those who exactly match the job requirements. In contrast, human capital theory predicts that overqualified applicants will be selected as often as those who are exactly qualified. In this colloquium presentation, I will provide an overview of three studies where my colleagues and I examine how perceived over-qualification affects selection decisions. In Study 1 (Martinez, Lengnick-Hall & Kulkarni, 2014) we propose a conceptual model for conducting research on how Human Resource and hiring managers form impressions of overqualified individuals and how these impressions affect selection decisions. In Study 2 (Kulkarni, Lengnick-Hall & Martinez, 2014), based on a qualitative interview data analysis, we found that in most cases, managers are willing to interview and hire individuals whose education or experience exceeds a job’s requirements. Additionally, we propose a typology for categorizing applicant qualification levels and how these relate to human resource outcomes such as hiring decisions. Finally, In Study 3 (Martinez, Lengnick-Hall & Kulkarni, 2015), using a policy-capturing methodology, we simulated a resume screening process for interview selection. We found that possessing more related education or more related experience than required for a job does not lower the chances of obtaining an interview.

You are cordially invited to attend the COR End-of-Year Celebration and Small Grant Recipients’ Poster Presentations.

Date: Friday, May 29, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Venue: SBSG 1321

Featuring the research by:

• Prof. Miriam Bender (Nursing)
• Santina Contreras (Social Ecology)
• Paula Hao (Merage)
• Victoria Lowerson (Social Ecology)
• Prof. Francesca Polletta and Katt Hoban (Social Sciences)
• Prof. Evan Schofer (Social Sciences)
• Dakuo Wang (ICS)

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to cor@uci.edu by Monday, May 25.

A talk of interest to COR members….

Monday, April 27, 2015
3:30-5:00pm
SB1 5400

Faculty host: Chris Bauman

Boris Maciejovsky
Assistant Professor of Management
A. Gary Anderson Distinguished Faculty Scholar
School of Business Administration
University of California, Riverside

Information Aggregation in Organizations

One of the most basic requirements of successful organizations is their ability to extract information from their workforce, despite the presence of ex-ante private information and vested interests on part of the employees. In this talk, I will discuss some recent findings on how hierarchies affect information flows (Reitzig & Maciejovsky, 2015) and show that strategic information revelation is a function of organizational structure (Klapper, Maciejovsky, Puranam, & Reitzig, 2015). Finally, I will discuss some recent empirical findings (Maciejovsky & Budescu, in preparation), comparing the different information aggregation institutions of groups and markets with respect to their ability of withstanding explicit manipulation attempts.