Conference Presentations

Allworth, E. (2009).  Skill shortages, demographic changes and the challenge for psychological assessment:  An overview.  Paper presented at the 8th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Manly. 

Allworth, E. (2008). Identifying talent via psychometric testing: Separating fad from science. Paper presented at the Marcus Evans Workplace and Organisational Psychology Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Allworth, E. (2007). Job level, age and reactions to testing: Do they moderate the relationship between personality and measured intelligence? Paper presented at 7th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Adelaide.

Allworth, E. (2004). Psychometric assessment: Does it have a place in planning for return to work following injury? Paper presented at the National Injury Management and Prevention Summit, Canberra.

Allworth, E. (2003). Adaptability in the workplace: Key attributes for the resilient graduate. Keynote address to the Counsellors in Education Conference, UNSW. Sydney.

Allworth, E. (2003). Personality, Biodata and Performance. Presentation to the College of Organisational Psychologists, Sydney.

Allworth, E. (2002, 2000). Psychological tests: Cost-effective tool or just another gimmick. Paper presented at the Ausmed Conference on Human Resource Management, Sydney.

Allworth, E. (2001). A content-oriented approach to the development of ability tests and biodata in a freight handling organisation. Paper presented at the 4th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Sydney.

Allworth, E. (1997). The criterion-related validity and generalisability of alternative biodata scaling methods. Paper presented at the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology, St Louis, MI.

Allworth, E. (1996). Past behaviour, future behaviour: Biodata measures of coping with change and self-efficacy in the prediction of training performance. Paper presented at the Australian Social Psychology Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, May 1996.

Allworth, E. (1996). Investigation of the effect of re-scaling for response distortion on the concurrent validity of biodata scales. Paper presented at the National Postgraduate Psychologists Conference, Sydney.

Allworth, E. (1995). Untangling the performance domain. Paper to be presented at the Inaugural Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Sydney, July 1995.

Allworth, E. (1988). Development of a Model of Rehabilitation. Paper presented to the NSW Occupational Health, Safety and Rehabilitation Congress, August, 1988.

Allworth, E., & Cadman, M. (1995). Level of specificity in predictor and criterion domains: Organisational-level analysis in employee selection. Paper to be presented to the 10th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial & Organisational Psychologists, Orlando, Florida, May 1995.

Allworth, E., & Carstairs, J. (1997). Biodata development: Issues in scaling, response distortion and validity. Paper presented at the Second Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Melbourne.

Allworth, E. & Griffin, B. (2005). Adapting the criterion-related approach to psychological assessment to executive and workplace coaching: An organisational psychology perspective. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Evidence-based Coaching, University of Sydney, Sydney. 

Allworth, E. & Griffin, B. (2003). Psychological assessment in executive coaching. Paper presented at the First International Evidence-Based Coaching Conference, University of Sydney, Sydney.

Allworth, E., & Hesketh, B. (1997). Construct based biodata and the prediction of adaptive performance. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, Ill.

Allworth, E., & Hesketh, B. (1999). Job requirements biodata as a predictor of performance in customer service roles. Paper presented at the Third Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Brisbane.

Allworth, E., & Sutherland, L. (1997). Cognitive Ability, Biodata and Personality: Incremental and Differential Validity in a Training Context. Paper presented at the Second Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Melbourne.

Hesketh, B. & Allworth, E. (2000). Applying science to strengthen the recruiter’s skills. Paper presented at the 2000 Australian Congress on Recruiting & Staffing. Sydney.

Hesketh, B., & Allworth, E. (1999). Theory of work adjustment and adaptive performance: Cognitive, personality and style contributions. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology, Atlanta, Georgia.

Hesketh, B., & Allworth, E. (1997). Adaptive performance: Updating the criterion to cope with change. Paper presented at the Second Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Melbourne.

Hesketh, B., & Allworth, E. (1997). Fuzzy set approach to configural prediction from interests and personality. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, ILL.

Hesketh, B., & Allworth, E. (1994). Time-scale threats to traditional selection research. Paper presented at International Association of Applied Psychology, Madrid.

Stead, N. (2009).  The Effect of Age and Gender on Motivation to Work.  8th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference: Conference Proceedings, Sydney.

Rappaport, A., Allworth, E. & Thomas, K. (1990). The validity of neuropsychological tests in the prediction of functional abilities. Paper presented at XVI Australian Brain Impairment Conference, Newcastle, Australia.

Wilkenfeld, S., & Allworth, E. (2007). Personality and measured intelligence: Facet and composite level analyses using the Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ). Paper presented at 7th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Adelaide.

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