William Terris
DePaul University
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Deviant Behavior | 1992
Richard C. Hollinger; Karen B. Slora; William Terris
Existing research suggests that employee deviance is highest in occupational settings that rely heavily on “marginal” workers—especially those who are young with little tenure—who believe that they are treated unfairly by their employers. As a test of this proposition, an anonymous survey was conducted among a two‐company national sample of 341 fast‐food restaurant workers. Three fifths of the respondents reported some level of personal involvement in theft of company property during the previous 6 months. In addition, more than one third were involved in “altruistic” forms of property deviance. Moreover, four fifths of the respondents reported involvement in counterproductive activities against the organization. Contrary to expectations, a slightly different explanatory solution emerged for each of the three forms of employee deviance. Personal property deviance was principally a function of age and perceived employer unfairness—both interacting with tenure. Involvement in altruistic property deviance wa...
Journal of Business and Psychology | 1991
Karen B. Slora; Dennis S. Joy; William Terris
There is a range of on-the-job violent behaviors which are costly and of concern to employers. This review of research shows that on-the-job violence can be predicted when standardized instruments and a statistical model of prediction are used for personnel selection. The research shows that persons will reveal violent tendencies on psychological tests.
Journal of Business and Psychology | 1987
Thomas S. Brown; John W. Jones; William Terris; Brian D. Steffy
A major home improvement chain located primarily in the western United States initiated the use of thePersonnel Selection Inventory, a written integrity test, as part of its pre-employment hiring process. For two years only, those job applicants who passed this test and other pre-employment criteria were hired by the chain. Following the introduction of the inventory, there was: (1) a 50% reduction in the number of employee terminations for theft, illegal drug use, and violence over a five year period and (2) a savings in shrinkage losses that amounted to over two million dollars over a two year period.
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology | 1985
William Terris
Employee theft, violence, and drug abuse account for enormous losses in business and industry. The major purpose of the present research was to determine the relationship of the attitudes of prospective employees in these three key areas and the admissions of such acts by the applicant in a preemployment polygraph examination. Four hundred seventy job applicants for positions of trust involving access to money merchandise, and other company property completed the Personnel Selection Inventory (PSI) prior to taking the preemployment polygraphe examination. The results showed strong relationships between attitudes and behavior in the area of theft (r=.56, p<.01), violence (r=.51. p<.05). and drug abuse (r=.46 for marijuana use, p<.05 and r=.40 for other drug abuse. p<.05). The results also showed that the PSI had no adverse impact against protected race or sex groups. Implications of these findings are discussed.
Journal of Business and Psychology | 1997
William Terris
For 25 years psychologists have measured systematic measurement bias in terms of regression lines. According to this traditional approach a test is an unbiased predictor of a criterion for all subgroups if all subgroups have identical Y′ regression lines (i.e., identical slopes and identical Y′ intercepts). This paper shows that the traditional model is fundamentally incorrect and identical Y′ regression lines are not expected to occur with an unbiased test in a testing situation in which one group score lower than another group on both the test and criterion. This is the case even if the test is perfectly reliable. The traditional model for measuring bias actually results in a consistent error or bias against groups which score lower than average on both the test and criterion. In practice this bias operates against minority groups. Tests now thought to be unbiased or even biased in favor of minority groups may in fact be biased against minority groups. A new model of test bias, which is based solely on measurement principles, is briefly introduced. In this model unbiased tests produce groups with identical test-criterion common-factor axes having a slope of SYC/SXC and with each axis intersecting the group centroids.
Learning and Motivation | 1975
Robert A Rosellini; William Terris
Abstract An incentive shift paradigm was used to test for the similarity of fear and frustration. In Experiment 1, rats trained to resist electric shock punishment showed neither a negative contrast effect nor any performance decrement when reward was shifted from 10 to one pellet. Experiment 2 replicated the basic findings of Experiment 1, but also showed that punishment training did not influence the magnitude of performance shift for animals receiving increases in reward magnitude. Finally, Experiment 3 additionally found that rats sensitized to punishment showed an increase in negative contrast effect. These results support the hypothesized functional similarity between conditioned fear and conditioned frustration with learned persistence or sensitivity to one generalizing to the other as suggested by Amsels (1972) theory of persistence.
Psychonomic science | 1969
William Terris; Auchael Barnes
In a factorial study, rats were trained to approach and consume food in the presence of gradually increasing shock punishment, gradually increasing airblast punishment, or no punishment, and were subsequently tested with full-strength shock of airblast punishment. The results showed that rats could learn to resist intense shock or airblast punishment if they were introduced gradually. While Ss learning to resist shock showed an increased resistance to airblast there was no evidence of the corresponding generalization from airblast to shock.
Learning and Motivation | 1976
Robert A Rosellini; William Terris
Abstract Two experiments tested the hypothesis that anticipation of shock could be established as a discriminative stimulus for an appetitive instrumental response. In multiphase experiments, bar pressing for food was brought under the discriminative control of intermittent and gradually increasing electric shock. In a second phase, tones were estalished as either a CS+, or CS− for shock. Subsequently, the CSs were introduced on to the operant baseline. Animals trained with shock as the S D showed an increase in responding to the CS+ and a slight decrease to the CS−. Conversely, animals trained with shock as the S Δ showed decreased responding to the CS+ and slight increase to the CS−. These findings are seen as supportive of the Discriminative Stimulus hypothesis of learned resistance to punishment.
Psychological Reports | 1982
William Terris; John W. Jones
Psychological Reports | 1983
John W. Jones; William Terris