Ronald Karren
Associate Professor of Management
Telephone: 413-545-5688
Email: ronkarren@mgmt.umass.edu
Office: SOM 356
Web Site: intra.som.umass.edu/karren
Currently Teaching: MGT 314
Previously Taught: SOM 804
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1978
M.A., New School for Social Research, 1973
B.A., Rutgers College, 1971
Selected Publications:
R. Karren and M. W. Barringer. (2002) “A Review and Analysis of the Policy-Capturing Methodology in Organizational Research: Guidelines for Research and Practice,” Organizational Research Methods, Vol. 5 (2002): 337-361.
L. Graves and R. Karren. (1999). “Are Some Interviewers Better Than Others?” In The Employment Interview Handbook, edited by R.W. Eder and M.M. Harris, 243-358. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
L. Graves and R. Karren (1996). “The Employee Selection Interview: A Fresh Look at an Old Problem.” Human Resource Management Journal 35, no. 2: 163-80.
R. Karren and L. Graves (1994). “Assessing Person-Organization Fit in Personnel Section: Guidelines for Future Research.” International Journal of Selection and Assessment 2, no. 3: 146-56.
L. Graves and R. Karren (1992). “Interview Decision Processes and Effectiveness: An Experimental Policy-capturing Investigation.” Personnel Psychology 45, no. 2: 313-40.
P. Greenfield, R. Karren and L. Zacharias (1989). “Screening Workers: An Examination and Analysis of Practice and Public Policy.” Employee Relations 11, no. 5: 1-47.
Academic and Professional Activities:
Program committee, Academy of Management Human Resources Division and for the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Awards:
Outstanding Teacher Award, Management Department, 1994-95
Elected to Phi Kappa Phi as a professor at the University of Massachusetts, 1993
