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Beryl Hesketh completed her Ph.D. at Massey University in New Zealand, and has taught I/O
Psychology at several universities in New Zealand and Australia, having introduced graduate
programs at the University of New South Wales and at Macquarie University. In 1995 she chaired
the Inaugural Australian Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference, and received the
Elton Mayo Award in 1997 for her contributions to I/O research and training in Australia and
internationally. She has published widely in the areas of career decision making, selection and
training, with a current project on developing adaptive expertise in fire fighters. She is Dean of the
Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney.
Dr David A. Hofmann, Department of Management, Eli Broad School of Management, Michigan
State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1122, U.S.A.
David A. Hofmann is an associate professor of management at Michigan State University. He
received his B.A. degree from Furman University (1986) in Business Administration, his M.S.
degree from the University of Central Florida (1988) in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and
his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University (1992) in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
His primary research interests include how individual, group/team, leadership, and organizational
factors relate to safety problems, the interpretation of accident causes, and the occurrence of
accidents as well as perceptions of commitment and accountability for both safety and quality
performance. Other interests include multi-level modeling, organizational surveys and assessment
methodologies, and organizational change. In 1992 he was awarded the Yoder–Henemen Personnel
Research Award from the Society of Human Resource Management.
Dr Karolina Ivancic, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Carslaw Building F07,
NSW 2006, Australia.
Karolina Ivancic completed her Ph.D. at the University of New South Wales where she inves-
tigated whether exposure to errors during training promoted the transfer of cognitive skills. She
has since been involved in designing a training manual and video for the field supervisors of post-
graduate students. Her most recent research project involved examining the effects of exposure to
errors on driver skill and self-confidence using a driving simulator undertaken while employed by
the University of Sydney as a post-doctoral research officer. Karolina Ivancic died in 2001.
Prof. Dr Susan E. Jackson, 94 Rockafeller Road, Room 216, School of Management and Labor
Relations, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8054, U.S.A.
Susan E. Jackson is professor of human resource management in the School of Management
and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, where she serves as graduate director for the Doctoral
Program in Industrial Relations and Human Resources. She received her B.A. in Psychology and
Sociology from the University of Minnesota, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychol-
ogy from the University of California, Berkeley. Her primary area of expertise is the strategic
management of human resources; special interests include managing team effectiveness, work-
force diversity, and knowledge management. She has authored or co-authored over 100 articles on
these and related topics. Her books include Managing Human Resources: A Partnership Perspec-
tive (with Randall S. Schuler), Strategic Human Resource Management (with Randall S. Schuler),
Creating Tomorrow’s Organizations: A Handbook for Future Research in Organizational Behav-
ior (with Cary L. Cooper), and Diversity in Work Teams: Research Paradigms for a Chang-
ing Workplace (with M. N. Ruderman). An active member of the International Association of
Applied Psychology, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Academy
of Management, she currently serves on the editorial boards of Applied Psychology: An Inter-
national Review; Journal of Applied Psychology; Journal of Occupational and Organizational
Psychology; Organizational Dynamics; and Human Resource Management Journal.
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Prof. Dr Ruth Kanfer, School of Psychology, 274 5 St., MC 0170, Georgia Institute of Tech-
nology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0170, U.S.A.
Ruth Kanfer is a professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,
Georgia, U.S.A. She has written extensively on work motivation/self-regulatory processes in adult
skill training, job search, and job performance. Dr. Kanfer has served on the editorial boards
of several scientific journals, including Journal of Applied Psychology; Applied Psychology: An
International Review; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Human Perfor-
mance, and Basic and Applied Social Psychology. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological