

Directionally Correct, A People Analytics Podcast with Cole & Scott
Directionally Correct, A People Analytics Podcast with Cole & Scott
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Apr 28, 2024 • 1h 3min
#89 - Dr. Matthew Jackson - Power, Game Theory, & Networks as a Different Kind of Influence
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The psychology behind always sitting in the same seat: https://qz.com/1349508/the-psychology-behind-why-you-always-want-to-sit-in-the-same-seat
Pandemic dreams: ONA of dream content during covid: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.573961/full
Vendor offering citations for purchase: https://www.science.org/content/article/vendor-offering-citations-purchase-latest-bad-actor-scholarly-publishing?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=689109562&et_cid=5113287
Do AI bots act similarly to humans: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313925121
Social capital measurement and associations with economic mobility: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04996-4

Apr 21, 2024 • 1h 13min
#88 - Drs. Harold Goldstein & Charles Scherbaum - NFL Draft Player Performance Assessment
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The impact of football on academic achievement: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272775714000806
Cheers vs Jeers: Effects of Audience Feedback on Individual Athletic Performance: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/L-Epting/publication/281766861_Cheers_vs_Jeers_Effects_of_audience_feedback_on_individual_athletic_performance/links/56b22c9208ae795dd5c7a490/Cheers-vs-Jeers-Effects-of-audience-feedback-on-individual-athletic-performance.pdf
What will people do after they get their PhDs: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470218241236144
Preview of the NFL PAT 2023 Review of Results: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=c3b3e19eb6&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1796095206673339613&th=18ed0313088bd4dd&view=att&disp=inline

Apr 14, 2024 • 1h 12min
#87 - Dr. Alan Colquitt - Is Performance Management Fine, Or Rotten To The Core?
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The Finer Details - The Predictability of Life Outcomes: https://www.colby.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Stewart_et_al_2022.pdf
37% of British Workers Think Their Job is Meaningless: https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/13005-british-jobs-meaningless?redirect_from=%2Ftopics%2Fsociety%2Farticles-reports%2F2015%2F08%2F12%2Fbritish-jobs-meaningless
Organizations Want to Abandon Performance Appraisal, Should They? https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Murphy-54/publication/312588967_Organizations_want_to_abandon_performance_appraisal_Can_they_Should_They/links/64f28b87fa851147de0a37d5/Organizations-want-to-abandon-performance-appraisal-Can-they-Should-They.pdf

Apr 7, 2024 • 56min
#86 - Cole and Scott - Prepping for SIOP 2024, Yacht Rock, & Zombie Deer
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4th Wave of People Analytics: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15344843231207220
The High Performer Hedonic Treadmill: https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/happy-high-performer-hedonic-treadmill/
AI Generates Better Ideas than Students: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1685717651262201856?s=20
Workplace Ostracism is More Distressing than Harassment: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/minds-business/workplace-ostracism-more-distressing-than-harassment.html
Zombie Deer are Coming for Us: https://x.com/stillgray/status/1739620328392016268?s=20

Mar 31, 2024 • 1h 6min
#85 - Dr. Jennifer Diamond Acosta - Job Skills & Upskilling When AI Is Coming For You
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How citations effect how papers are read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733322000129#:~:text=A%20paper%27s%20quality%20is%20also,and%20later%20in%20their%20lifetimes.
Exploring the relationship between video game performance and fluid intelligence: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0186621
Person-organization fit theory research and conundrums: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/peps.12581
2nd Time we covered the is the juice worth the squeeze Marc Effron article: https://talentstrategygroup.com/is-the-juice-worth-the-squeeze/

Mar 17, 2024 • 1h 10min
#84 - Dr. Nathan Carter - Causal Attitude Networks & The Octopus Murders
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College consumption and academic behavior: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30481/w30481.pdf
The cost of knowledge: https://people.tamu.edu/~yonghongan/The_Cost_of_Knowledge.pdf
Peer reviewer crisis: https://paulspector.com/a-peer-reviewer-crisis-in-the-organizational-sciences/
Using causal network analysis: https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2019-78909-001.pdf

Mar 10, 2024 • 1h 6min
#83 - Mark Hanson - Skills Intelligence With Lightcast & Is The Future Skill-Based?
Mark Hanson, VP of Strategy at Lightcast and a talent management specialist, dives deep into skills intelligence and its future role in the workforce. He discusses the integration of external data with internal analytics to enhance hiring strategies, urging a shift towards skills-based recruitment. The conversation takes a playful turn with a quiz on Gen Z slang and humorous insights on grocery bag packing. They also tackle the transformative role of AI in various jobs and the necessity for human oversight in an AI-driven world.

Mar 3, 2024 • 1h 16min
#82 - Dr. Ryan Hammond - Turnover Prediction, ML Ethics, & The HiQ Story
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Like stars: How firms learn from scientific conferences https://www.felixpoege.eu/assets/publications/2020FirmComm/corporateconferences.pdf
The role of facial hair on women’s perceptions of men https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nick-Neave/publication/222774518_The_effects_of_facial_hair_manipulation_on_female_perceptions_of_attractiveness_masculinity_and_dominance_in_male_faces/links/5a53418d458515e7b72e9d0e/The-effects-of-facial-hair-manipulation-on-female-perceptions-of-attractiveness-masculinity-and-dominance-in-male-faces.pdf

Feb 25, 2024 • 1h 1min
#81 - Dr. Igor Menezes - Building Assessments Using AI & Emoji Talk
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Core-periphery in the movie industry
Trust in communication mediums
Big five personality and divergent thinking

Feb 18, 2024 • 1h 6min
#80 - Andrew Pitts - Polinode for ONA & What's Up with Vanderpump Rules?
Podcast explores mapping networks with Polinode in people analytics, emphasizing diversity, and inclusion. Discusses unique Australian facts and cultural quirks. Analyzes network diagrams from Vanderpump Rules data using Polinode, highlighting global relationships and honeymoon reflections.