Associate Professor Sally A Carless

Biography

1995 MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY, PhD in Psychology and Management conferred.

Thesis Title: Transformational Leadership and Australian Bank Managers.

Professional Activities

Member of the Academy of Management (AOM)
Member of Society of Industrial and Organisational Psychologists (SIOP)
Member of American Psychological Association (APA)
Full Member of Australian Psychological Society
Member of the College of Organisational Psychologists (COP)
COP Course Approvals Co-ordinator
Registered Psychologist with the Psychologists Registration Board of Victoria

Research Interests

Recruitment and selection
Person-job and person-organisation fit
Psychometrics:scale development, scale evaluation
Career development
Leadership

Postgraduate Research Projects

Damian Cotchett (PhD). A model of career success
Shaun Rogers (DPsych, org). Attitudes to EEO policy in an applicant setting
Diana Coleho (MOP). The overlap between I/O psychologists and HR professionals

Teaching

Units taught:
MOP5021 Personnel assessment
MOP5052 Recruitment, selection and appraisal

2004
GWA International ($120,000)
Wilson-Evered, E., Carless, SA & Colemen, G
Selecting and developing leaders for the manufacturing industry

GWA is an international company that sought our advise and expertise to select and train senior executives for the company. In particular, my role was to the manage the design of the selection process for senior executive leadership development.

2003
Hong Kong Research Grant Council (HK$525,000 (AUS$120,000)
Taylor, P., Borman, W. & Carless, S.A. The Transportability of Job Analysis.

Publications

Carless, S.A. (in press). Applicant reactions to multiple selection procedures for the police force. Applied Psychology: An International Review;

Carless, S.A. (in press). Person-job fit versus person-organization fit as predictors of organizational attraction and job acceptance intentions: A longitudinal study. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

Carless, S.A. (2005). The influence of fit perceptions, equal opportunity policies and social support network on pre-entry police officer career commitment and intentions to remain. Journal of Criminal Justice.

Carless, S. A. (2004). Does psychological empowerment mediate the relationship between psychological climate and job satisfaction? Journal of Business and Psychology, 18, 325-345.

Carless, S.A. (2003). A longitudinal study of applicant reactions to selection procedures and job and organisational characteristics. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 11, 345-351.

Bright, J. & Carless, S. A. (2003). Guest Editorial: Special Edition on Work and Careers. Australian Journal of Psychology, 55, (2), 63-64.

Carless, S.A. & Prodan, O. (2003) The impact of practicum training on career and job search attitudes of postgraduate psychology students. Australian Journal of Psychology, 55, (2), 89-94.

Carless, S. A., Couzin-Wood, C., Duncan, C., Imber, A., Munro J., & Novatsis, E. (2003). Practicum training for organisational psychologists: A survey of current and past students attitudes. Australian Psychologist, 38, 55-61.

Brkich, M., Jeffs, D. & Carless, S. A. (2002). A global self-report measure of person-job fit. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 18, 43-51.

Carless, S. A. & Fallon, B. (2002). The relationship between Rothwell-Miller interest categories and abilities. Australian Journal of Career Development, 11, 27-31.

Carless, S. A. & Roberts-Thompson, G. (2001). Self-evaluations, feedback and leadership training programs, International Journal of Selection and Asessment, 9, 217-225.

Carless, S. A. (2001). The construct validity of the Leadership Practices Inventory. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 74, 233-239.

Woodward, A., Carless, S. A. & Findlay, B. (2001). A psychometric evaluation of the Irrational Beliefs Inventory in a marital context, Australian Psychologist, 36, 255-261.

Carless, S.A. (2000). The validity of scores on the Multidimensional Aptitude Battery. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 60, 592-603.

Carless, S. A. & De Paola, C. (2000). The measurement of cohesion in work teams, Small Group Research, 31, 71-88.

Carless, S. A. (2000). Repy to Carron and Brawley, Small Group Research, 31,107-118.

Carless, S.A., Wearing, A. J. & Mann, L. (2000). A short measure of transformational leadership. Journal of Business and Psychology, 14, 389-405

Faelli, R., & Carless, S.A. (1999). A comparison of psychological characteristics of employed and unemployed professionally qualified immigrants, Australian Psychologist, 34, 183-187.

Carless, S.A. (1999). Career assessment: Holland's vocational interests, personality characteristics and abilities. Journal of Career Assessment, 7, 125-144.

Carless, S.A. (1998). Gender differences in transformational leadership: An examination of superior, leader and subordinate perspectives. Sex Roles, 39, 887-902.

Carless, S.A. (1998). Assessing the discriminant validity of the transformational leadership behaviour as measured by the MLQ. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 71, 353-358.

Carless, S.A., Mann, L., & Wearing, A. J (1998). Leadership, managerial performance and 360-degree feedback. Applied Psychology, An International Review, 47, 481-496.

Carless, S.A., & Allwood, V.E. (1997). Managerial assessment centres: What is being rated? Australian Psychologist, 32, 101-105