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About the Contributors

Prof. Dr Jen Algera, Department of Technology and Work, Faculty of Technology Management,
Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Jen A. Algera is a part-time Professor of Personnel Management at Eindhoven University of
Technology, the Netherlands. In addition, he is managing director of HRAdviesNed, a HRM con-
sultancy group. In both jobs he focuses his research and consultancy on performance management
at the individual level, the group level, as well as the organization level.
DrWiebyAltink,SHLNederlandB.V.,ArthurvanSchendelstraat612,postbus1047,NL-3500BA
Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Wieby Altink is program manager consultant at SHL Nederland BV. She is responsible for the
innovation of consultancy services (assessment, development and HR advice) as well as all client
projects that integrate consultancy, training, and product (instrument) activities. She studied work
andOrganizationalpsychologyandworkedasanassistantprofessorandanassociateprofessorwith
theDepartmentofWorkandOrganizationalPsychologyatthe“VrijeUniversiteitvanAmsterdam”.
In addition, she performed the job of business unit manager with the SHL organization; together
with approximately 20 colleagues she supplied consultancy, training, and products to many client
organizations in the Netherlands and in an international context. Her current interests are: “How
can people and organisations develop themselves together in their work, tasks and goals?”
Dr James G. Clawson, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of
Virginia, Box 6550, Charlottesville, Virginia, VA 22906, U.S.A.
James G. Clawson is a Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of
Business Administration at the University of Virginia. He has authored Level Three Leadership,
and co-authored ‘Self Assessment and Career Development and An MBA’s Guide to Self Assess-
ment and Career Development. His research interests include leadership, mentoring, and career
management. He has written dozens of articles and hundreds of cases and consulted with a variety
of Fortune 100 firms on these issues.
Dr Rendel D. de Jong, Utrecht University, Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen, Heidelberglaan,
13584 CS, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Rendel de Jong teaches Psychology of Work and Health and Personnel Psychology at Utrecht
University, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology. His research interests include
leadership, personality, team functioning, mental health, and performance. As a consultant, Rendel
de Jong is engaged in coaching and counseling managers and management teams.
Prof. Dr J¨urgen Deller, Department of Business Psychology, University of Applied Sciences,
Wilschenbrucher Weg 84A, D-21335 Lueneburg, Germany.
J¨urgen Deller started his career 1979 with Commerzbank AG as an apprentice, and later as
investment adviser. In 1982–1983 he studied economics, history, and political science at Judson
College, Elgin, Illinois, followed by studies of economics and psychology at Kiel University; he
submitted his Master’s thesis in Psychology on Situational Interviews in 1991, and completed his
Ph.D. on Intercultural Aptitude Testing at the University of the Armed Forces Hamburg in 1998.
In 1991 he joined the corporate headquarters of Daimler-Benz group, Stuttgart, as international
management trainee, later HR manager, and worked with DaimlerChrysler Services (debis) AG,
Berlin, from 1996 to 1999 as senior manager in the HR board member’s office and as head of
Corporate Leadership Development IT Services. Since 2000 he has been a Professor of Organiza-
tional Psychology in the Department of business psychology at the University of Applied Sciences
in Lueneburg, and since September 2000 the department head. He has written many articles
on personnel selection, management development, international HR management and business
ethics.