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Mar 19, 2014
HumRRO helps executives see the potential in human capital analytics. Dr. Rod McCloy shared some of our work in this arena during a recent presentation to human resource (HR) executives and senior HR personnel from more than 60 organizations at the HR Metrics Summit on February 26 in Orlando, FL. Specifically, Rod described efforts to link and analyze two types of human capital data: employee...
Mar 11, 2014
Dr. Erin Eatough, recipient of HumRRO’s 2012 Meredith P. Crawford Fellowship in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, visited HumRRO in Alexandria, Virginia on February 6th and 7th. Erin met with staff and gave the fellowship presentation – You Want Me to do What? Illegitimate Tasks and Employee Outcomes – on her dissertation research.
Erin Eatough graduated from the University of South...
Feb 12, 2014
Taylor Sparks recently received the Elliott Jaques Award for Best Article of the 2013 Volume Year in Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research. In this article, she and her colleagues examine what skills managers need, and whether the importance of these skills is similar across countries or culturally contingent. Such knowledge will help managers and consultants understand what...
Jan 29, 2014
We are looking for enthusiastic, conscientious, and inquisitive graduate students enrolled in full-time I-O and measurement/psychometric programs to join us at HumRRO for the summer. We are a company of social scientists with over 60 years of experience in helping our clients realize the full potential of their workforces. Our summer internships are paid, full-time positions lasting about 3...
Oct 18, 2013
HRM Impact Awards for Two HumRRO Projects
Two HumRRO projects recently received an HRM Impact Award, an international honor that recognizes organizations with outstanding evidence-based HR management practices. One award recognized...
Oct 11, 2013
One of these tools is role plays. The downside to traditional role plays is that can be prohibitively costly to develop or administer, particularly for large organizations like the U.S. military.
HumRRO and ClicFlic, in partnership with the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI), recently developed a virtual, animated role play for the U.S. Army that...
Oct 4, 2013
HumRRO developed the Joint Services Cyber Test to measure military applicants’ basic information technology literacy (e.g., network configuration and maintenance; computer operations; system security; offensive methods; software programming and web development). First piloted in 2008, the test currently is being administered to military applicants. HumRRO continues to support the Joint...
Aug 26, 2013
HumRRO's President, Bill Strickland, has been appointed as a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Measuring Human Capabilities: Performance Potential of Individuals and Collectives. One outcome of the Committee's work is expected to be a research agenda for basic research to be conducted by the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Jun 17, 2013
Employees who maliciously steal confidential information or sabotage critical information systems are a growing threat to individual organizations, as well as to our national security. In response, for the past two years, HumRRO has served on a multidisciplinary team to develop models for predicting and detecting malicious insider attacks.
HumRRO researchers...
Apr 29, 2013
HumRRO Receives Critical Acclaim for Job Analysis Work
A solid job analysis provides a critical foundation for creating effective talent acquisition and talent management systems. HumRRO recently received high praise for helping TSA perform job analytic work for its highest profile position – transportation security officers – professionals who serve on the front lines maintaining...