Brian Dineen Assistant Professor Gatton College of Business and Economics University of Kentucky Email

Research Interests:

My research is primarily concerned with issues related to recruitment and selection.  More specifically, I investigate factors that influence the quality of initial applicant pools in organizations, to include workforce planning decisions as well as mass customization of messages to individual job seekers.   Corresponding topics include applicant attraction, information search costs, application decisions in Internet-based recruitment contexts, the influence of goal orientation on the job search process, and counterproductive behavior among job seekers in terms of resume fraud.   A secondary area of research examines team dynamics and counterproductive behavior in social contexts; specifically, the impact of supervisory influence, fluid team membership, and attitudinal diversity on team processes and counterproductive behavior.

Networks-Related Research Project:

The impact of team fluidity on social loafing behavior - This study examines three sets of predictors of one's propensity to loaf in social (team) settings. First, certain individual difference variables such as the dutifulness facet of conscientiousness may negatively impact loafing. Second, certain demographic or attitudinal diversity variables may be associated with loafing. Third, given that teams in this study changed membership over time ( i.e., experienced team fluidity), we use a networks approach to examine the impact of linkages to former team members (and thus exposure to varying levels of prior loafing) as a predictor of current levels of loafing.