George Guajardo | Performance Through Understanding

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The Choice Cake: Eating and Keeping it Too

• April 11, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Decision-Making, Organizational Behavior, Personnel Selection, Social Psychology, Uncategorized
Tags: affect, Choice, Decision Quality, Decision-Making, maximizing, Motivation, Optimizing, psychological reactance, Satisficing, social cognition, social psychology

How About a Reintroduction?

• April 10, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: higher education, Introduction

Reference Checks: Just Another Unstructured Interview

• October 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Decision Quality, Human Resources, I/O Psychology, Personnel Selection
Tags: Decision Quality, Human Resources, Interviews, Personnel Selection, reference checks

Broken Personnel Selection

• October 12, 2010 • 5 Comments

Posted in I/O Psychology, Personality, Personnel Selection
Tags: Human Resources, I/O Psychology, Personality Tests, Personnel Selection, Synthetic Validity, Unstructured Interviews

Engagement Research: Extensive Effort, Limited Insight

• September 1, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Assessment, Employee Engagement, I/O Psychology
Tags: Employee Engagement, Employee Survey, Organizational Research, Range Restriction

It’s Not a Skills Deficit!

• July 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Assessment, Decision Quality, I/O Psychology, Personnel Selection, Training
Tags: Employee Selection, Selection, Skill Deficit, Skills, Skills Assessment, Training, Unemployment

More Than One Path to Transparency: Glassdoor.com

• July 20, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Personnel Selection
Tags: employer brand management, employer review, Glassdoor.com, Human Resources, salary research

Nobody Buys “Product”

• July 5, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Customer Service, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Communication, Persuasion, Sales
Tags: Communication, Compulsory sales, Persuasion, Product, Retail Sales, Sales, Starbucks, Up-selling, VIA

You’re not ugly. You’re off-brand.

• June 20, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Assessment, I/O Psychology, Management, Personnel Selection
Tags: American Apparel, Aspirational Brand, Attractiveness, Bias, Brand Management, Hiring, Interviews, Personnel Selection, Prejudice

Organizational Change By The Bullet

• February 10, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Decision Quality, I/O Psychology, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Training
Tags: Blogging, Employee Engagement, Human Resources, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Management, Organizational Communication, Organizational Culture, Social Media, Training