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Jerel E. Slaughter

Associate Professor and
Assistant Department Head
Brian Lesk Faculty Fellow

• Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, 2000

Current Courses

Fall 2012: MGMT 486
Managerial Judgment and Decision Making

Spring 2013: BNAD 512
Managing Human Capital in Changing Organizations

Spring 2013: MGMT 696H
Human Resource Management

Research Interests

• Employee Personality
• Recruitment and Applicant Attraction
• Pre-Employment Selection Tests
• Decision Making in Recruitment and Selection

Recent Publications

Slaughter, J. E., & Kausel, E. E.  (2013).  Employee selection decisions.  In S. Highhouse, R. Dalal, & E. Salas (Eds.), Judgment and decision making at work.  New York: Routledge.

Slaughter J. E. (2012).  Program developers should focus on internalization, not participation.  American Journal of Health Promotion, 36, TAHP4-TAHP6.

Slaughter, J. E., Kausel, E. E., & Quiñones, M. A. (2011).  The decoy effect as a covert influence tactic.  Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 24, 249-266.

Christian, M. S., Garza, A. S, & Slaughter, J. E.  (2011).  Work engagement: A quantitative review and test of its relations with task and contextual performance. Personnel Psychology, 64, 89-136.

Kausel, E. E., & Slaughter, J. E.  (2011).  Narrow personality traits and organizational attraction: Evidence for the complementary hypothesis.  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 114, 3-14.

Becker, W. J., Connolly, T., & Slaughter, J. E.  (2010).  The effect of job offer timing on job acceptance, performance, and turnover.  Personnel Psychology, 63, 223-241.

Bonaccio, S., Dalal, R. S., Highhouse, S., Ilgen, D. R., Mohammed, S., & Slaughter, J. E. (2010, author response).  Taking workplace decisions seriously: This conversation has been fruitful!  Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 3, 455-464.

Dalal, R. S., Bonaccio, S., Highhouse, S., Ilgen, D. R., Mohammed, S., & Slaughter, J. E. (2010, focal article).  What if industrial-organizational psychology decided to take workplace decisions seriously? Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 3, 386-405.

Slaughter, J. E., & Kausel, E. E. (2009).  The neurotic employee: Theoretical analysis of the influence of narrow facets of neuroticism on cognitive, social, and behavioral processes relevant to job performance.  In J. Martocchio & H. Liao (Eds.), Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (vol. 28, pp. 265-341).  Bingley, UK: Emerald Insight.

Slaughter, J. E., & Greguras, G. J.  (2009).  Initial attraction to organizations: The influence of trait inferences.  International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 17, 1-18.

Current Projects and Working Papers

Slaughter, J. E., Christian, M. S., Podsakoff, N. P., Sinar, E. F, & Lievens, F.  On the limitations of using situational judgment tests to measure interpersonal skills: The moderating influence of employee anger.  Under third review at Personnel Psychology.

Slaughter, J. E., Cable, D. M., & Turban, D. B.  Job seekers’ belief confidence during the recruitment process.  Revision invited at Journal of Applied Psychology.

Slaughter, J. E., Christian, M. S., & Kausel, E. E.  Unpacking the feedback-performance relationship: How and why neurotic employees fail to benefit from negative feedback.  In preparation to send to Journal of Applied Psychology.

Kausel, E., Culbertson, S., Leiva, P., & Slaughter, J. E. Seeking advice from the mirror: Narcissism, accountability, and advice taking.  In preparation to send to Journal of Applied Psychology.

Various studies associated with integrity tests used for employee selection (with S. Gilliland, & D. Cooper).

Joint influence of the work environment and personality in predicting deviant behaviors (with J. Anderson).

Positive influence of controlled motivation in the workplace (with D. Cooper).

Professional Associations

• Academy of Management
• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Association for Psychological Science

Editorial Work

• Journal of Applied Psychology - Editorial Board (2008 - Present)
• Personnel Psychology - Editorial Board (2011 - Present)
• Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology - Editorial Board (2009 - Present)
• Negotiation and Conflict Management Research - Editorial Board (2006 - Present)
• Journal of Management - Editorial Board (2006 - 2009)
• Journal of Business and Psychology - Associate Editor (2009 - 2012)

Awards and Honors

• Brian Lesk Faculty Fellowship, 2006-present
• Outstanding Reviewer Recognition, AOM OB Division, 2006
• Recognition of Top-Rated Poster Submissions, SIOP, 2006
• Student Alumni Association Teacher Appreciation Award, 2004