Emerging respiratory disease agents, increased antibiotic resistance, and the loss of effective vaccines threaten to increase the incidence of respiratory disease in military personnel. We examine six respiratory pathogens (adenoviruses, influenza viruses, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and Bordetella pertussis) and review the impact of the diseases the...

This paper examines the development of personnel selection testing from the late 19th century to the present, emphasizing general cognitive ability and personality testing. The development of methods and standards in employment testing is examined with particular emphasis on selection validity and utility. The issues of fairness and discrimination in cognitive ability selection testing are expl...

Employee turnover is crucial to be investigated since it diminishes organization effectiveness and impedes the capacity to meet its goals. This study was conducted to test the mediating effects of work-family facilitation and family satisfaction on the relationship between job characteristics, and intention to stay among 240 single mother employees in Malaysia. Data was collected using self-adm...

Background: The objective of this study was to investigate differences in Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) between deployed and non-deployed military personnel undergoing a clinical evaluation for dyspnea. Methods: A retrospective electronic medical record review was conducted on active military personnel who underwent CPET at Brooke Army Medical Center during a clinical evaluation for d...

This article is the third in a three-part series examining the development of selection testing. Part I focused on the historical development of personnel selection testing from the iate 19th century to the present, with particular attention given to personality testing. Attention was given to the efforts of eariy industrial psychoiogists that shaped and defined the roie of testing in the scien...

Military personnel are at high risk of contracting vector-borne and zoonotic infections, particularly during overseas deployments, when they may be exposed to endemic or emerging infections not prevalent in their native countries. We conducted seroprevalence testing of 467 UK military personnel deployed to Helmand Province, Afghanistan, during 2008-2011 and found that up to 3.1% showed seroconv...

The article endeavors to validate the scale developed by Mimouni-Chaabane and Volle (2010) that measures perceived benefits of customer loyalty programs in the Indian context. On running exploratory and subsequently confirmatory factor analyses based on the responses collected from loyalty program members from two Indian cities and across different industries, the researchers opine that in the ...

In this paper, empirical prior information about the candidate is applied in computerized adaptive testing (CAT). The main objective of CAT is to improve efficiency of test administration. In this paper, it is shown how the inclusion of background variables both in the initialization and the ability estimation is able to improve the accuracy of ability estimates. In particular, a Gibbs sampler ...

We recently published an article in which we highlighted a number of issues associated with the use of self-report personality tests in personnel selection contexts (Morgeson et al., 2007). Both Ones, Dilchert, Viswesvaran, and Judge (2007) and Tett and Christiansen (2007) have written responses to this article. In our response to these articles we address many of the issues raised by Ones et a...

Occupational stress has become one of the global issues in the current working environment. Though the modern day organisations have succeeded in coping up with changing industry structures, their success in tackling their employees’ stress level is still a question mark. Unless employers do not try to lower their employees stress level, it will affect their organisations indirectly by various ...