We present a computational model of decision making called COMINT (COgnition and Motivation INTegration model). The model explains the role of motivation in decision making. COMINT is able of generating the four decision making styles proposed by Forgas (1994), using a single information processing mechanism, like suggested in (Baumeister and Newman, 1994). The model considers two kinds of moti...

Disparate impact (racial imbalance) in employee selection constitutes prima facie evidence of unlawful discrimination. Research in personnel psychology has shown, however, that valid and unbiased selection procedures often guarantee disparate impact and that they will continue to do so as long as there remain large racial disparities in job-related skills and abilities. Employers are in a legal...

Scholarship on executive politics provides conflicting views about whether staffing administrative agencies through politicized or (politically) autonomous means is the best method for maximizing bureaucratic competence. We offer a theoretical account which maintains that obtaining a proper balance between both types of personnel systems across the supervisory and subordinate levels of an organ...