Jennifer Lonergan-Garwick, MA, PhD
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Organization for which I currently work:
Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.
Job title:
Sr. Strategic Research Consultant
Past employers:
Research/IO interests:
Teams
How personality and task type interact to predict team performance
Identification of ideal team members via employment selection tools
Training methods for team members (e.g., team building)
Diversity in the Workplace
Impact of surface-level (age, gender, race) and deep-level
(employee attitudes) diversity on various organizational
outcomes (satisfaction, turnover, financials)
Impact of employee versus management diversity on various outcomes
Impact of diversity at the store-level versus department level
Perceptions of affirmative action (AA) and social identification
(e.g., will African-American women identify more strongly with
women or African-Americans if targeted in an AA policy?)
Applicant Reactions to Selection Tests
How test anxiety and/or attitudes impact performance and future perceptions
Racial subgroup differences in test attitudes and performance
Stereotype Threat
How presence of in-group members (women, racial minority group, etc.)
influences stereotype threat and its effects on performance
How to reduce stereotype threat in employment application situations
Job Enrichment/Work Process Redesign
How job enrichment impacts on various organizational outcomes
Impact of transformational leadership on job enrichment-org
commitment relationship
Procrastination
How to identify, measure and prevent procrastination in the workplace
Highest degree obtained :
PhD, Northern Illinois University
Thesis title:
Locus of Control as Moderator of the Relationship
Between Job Characteristics and Procrastination
at Work
Disertation title:
Development of a Model of Applicant Reactions to
Cognitive Ability Tests: Shedding Light on Racial
Subgroup Test Score Differences
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