Professor
Joel Lefkowitz
Professor
Lefkowitz is proud of his long time association with Baruch
College. He was an undergraduate at Baruch and returned to
teach here immediately following receiving his Ph.D. degree
in Industrial & Organizational (I/O) Psychology from Case
Western Reserve University in 1965. He has been the program
head of CUNY’s doctoral program in I/O Psychology, which is
located at Baruch, since its inception in 1982. His teaching
and research interests, publications and consulting experience
have reflected the generalist tradition in I/O psychology,
including work on both the “I” side of the field (human-resources
research and administration, such as personnel selection,
test validation, and equal-employment opportunity issues)
and the “O” side (organizational-social psychology,
such as the interpersonal aspects of supervision, the motivations
of “non-traditional” or contingent workers, and comparisons
of the job attitudes of men and women).
Dr. Lefkowitz is interested
in the personal and social values that characterize the field
of I/O Psychology and has recently completed a book, Ethics
and Values in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (June,
2003, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 493 pp.) which won the
2003-'04 Abraham J. Briloff Prize in Ethics.
Some
other representative publications include:
The Constancy of Ethics Amidst the Changing
World of Work. Human Resource Management Review
(2006), 16, 245-268. (Which won the 2006-'07
A. J. Briloff Prize in Ethics.)
The Role of Interpersonal
Affective Regard in Supervisory Performance Ratings: A Literature
Review and Proposed Causal Model,” in the Journal of Occupational
and Organizational Psychology (2000), 73 ,
67-85.
Sex-Related Differences
in Job Attitudes and Dispositional Variables: Now You See
Them,.....” in the Academy of Management Journal
(1994), 37 , 323-349.
Dimensions of Biodata
Items and Their Relationships to Item Validity,” in the Journal
of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (1999),
72 , 331-350.
Race as a Factor in
Job Placement: Serendipitous Findings of Ethnic Drift,” in
Personnel Psychology (1994), 47 , 497-514.
Potential Sources of
Criterion Bias in Supervisor Ratings Used for Test Validation,”
in the Journal of Business and Psychology , (1995),
9 , 389-414. .
He is one of a group
of “I/O Ethicists” who respond in a column to ethical queries
submitted to The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist
(TIP).
His
interest in the area of fair employment has led to his being
retained as an expert in equal employment opportunity litigation
by the United States Department of Justice, Department of
Labor, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as
well as others. He has been involved as an expert in more
than 50 legal cases of alleged racial discrimination against
minorities, pay discrimination against women and age discrimination.
E-Mail:
Joel
_ Lefkowitz@baruch.cuny.edu
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