Technical Board of Advisors

Jim Sharf, Ph.D. Fellow; Society of Industrial Organizational Psychologists & American Psychological Assn. Former: Special assistant to the Chairman EEOC, Former Vice President of AON Corporation, Participant; government guidance and regulations. Published: Journal articles, book chapters, editorial board of The Industrial Psychologist (TIP), and editorial board for Personnel Psychology. Seminars for: American Management Association, the Federal Bar, and the Equal Employment Advisory Council, Consulting: For attorneys defending personnel selection procedures, expert testimony for both plaintiffs and respondents, and The Department of Justice and Educational Testing Service.

Gerald V. Barrett, Ph.D., J.D. Author or co-author of over 150 professional publication and four books in the area of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, recognized by 100 human resource experts as one of the twelve core works in selection and staffing.  His chapter in the Handbook of Industrial/Organizational Psychology was the first to review cross-national managerial psychology. He has presented over 130 papers and workshops in North America, Europe, and Asia. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.  He is one of the few industrial psychologists who has been recognized by election as a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, a Diplomate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, The Academy of Management Distinguished Faculty, The Distinguished Professional Contributions Award from The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Industrial Organizational Behavior Group.

Dennis Doverspike, Ph.D. Published research: law and personnel psychology, job evaluation, pay equity, psychometric issues including bias, diversity issues, and applications of information processing theories to testing. Journals Articles include Journal of Applied Psychology, Public Personnel Management, and Personnel Psychology. He is a member of Sigma Xi, the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Society, the International Personnel Management Association, the Society for Human Resource Management, and the American Statistical Society.

Mike McDaniel, Ph.D. Professor Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business; research includes publication bias, racial differences in job performance, situational judgment tests, the effects of applicant faking on employment decisions and issues concerning older workers. Dr. McDaniel has also published applications of the meta-analysis selection methods. Dr. McDaniel has published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, and Human Performance. Dr. McDaniel is a member of the Academy of Management, and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial, Organizational Psychology, Inc., a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and a member of the Society for Human Resource Management. Dr. McDaniel has been recognized by the Academy of Management, the International Personnel Management Association Assessment Council, the Southern Management Association, and the US Office of Personnel Management.

Winfred Arthur, Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Management, Texas A&M: Editorial board of the Journal of Applied Psychology, Research in individual and team training with a focus on complex skill acquisition and factors related to minimizing skill decay and enhancing retention and organizational training and on testing, selection, validation, and associated methodological issues. Areas of publication and books include: personnel psychology, testing, selection and validation, human performance, team selection and training, training development, design, delivery, and complex skill acquisition, and retention models of job performance.