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Dr Kathlyn Wilson (PhD, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, The Ohio State University) is Associate Professor, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. Kathlyn is an Academic Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD).
Kathlyn’s research interests centre on the factors affecting the accuracy, fairness and usefulness of assessment processes in organisations, particularly the conceptualisation and measurement of work performance. She is also interested in intra-national cultures within organisations and their implications for assessment. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Human Relations and she has presented at international conferences such as the Academy of Management and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Kathlyn’s Academic and scholarly experience include: Visiting Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour in the College of Business at Florida International University, Miami (2003-2004); Visiting Scholar at the Educational Testing Service (New Constructs Division), Princeton, New Jersey (Summer 2009) and Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour (tenured) at Delaware State University’s College of Business (2004-2011).
Kathlyn has held various advisory roles including serving as an expert advisor to the (then) Commission for Racial Equality, providing population analyses, advice in informal investigations and conducting commissioned research across three large government departments on the impact of appraisal systems on minoritised ethnic groups. She has served on the Department for Work and Pensions' Ethnic Minority Employment Stakeholder Group (2013-2016) and the Department for Education's Equality and Diversity Advisory Group. Current advisory roles include the DWP's Employment Data Lab. Additionally, she is a member of the Chartered Association of Business School's EDI Committee and chairs their Race Equality Action Group. She occasionally serves as an assessor in leadership assessment centres for UN agencies (World Food Programme, the UN Development Programme, UNICEF and the UN International Organization for Migration); and is a judge and award presenter for Business in the Community’s Race for Opportunity annual awards (since 2013).
She is also a British Psychological Society Registered Test User and a Research Accreditation Service Accredited Researcher.
Research interests
- conceptualisations of job performance
- assessing job performance
- cross-cultural management
Recent funded research projects include a diversity impact assessment of the leadership effectiveness model and assessment process for an international management consultancy; a review of the design and delivery of an Assessment Centre to identify potential areas of unfair bias which might lead to disparate impact for protected groups (Cabinet Office, Government Commercial Office); an investigation of the barriers to Fellowship and Lectureship applications experienced by BAME and female early career researchers at Imperial College London; exploration of the language used in evaluating the performance of different protected groups (the Home Office); and the experiences of minoritised ethnic groups at life science research conferences in the UK (Wellcome Connecting Science).
Teaching specialisms
Dr Wilson's teaching specialisms include:
- Organisational Behaviour
- Human Resource Management
- International Human Resource Management
- Research Methods
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 5 Finished
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Government Commercial Office Assessment and Development Centre Diversity Impact Assessment
Wilson, K. (PI) & Cornish, T. (CoI)
22/07/19 → 30/08/19
Project: Research
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An investigation of the barriers to Fellowship and Lectureship applications experienced by BAME and female early career researchers at Imperial College London
Wilson, K. (PI), Urwin, P. (CoI) & Williamson, M. (Researcher)
1/11/16 → 15/05/17
Project: Research
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Understanding the Language of Performance Appraisal
Wilson, K. (PI)
1/11/13 → 24/10/14
Project: Research
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Leadership Assessments Adverse Impact Review
Wilson, K. (PI), Cornish, T. (Researcher) & Hill, T. (Researcher)
3/05/21 → 30/09/21
Project: Research
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Experiences of Minoritised Groups at Life Science Research Conferences in the UK
Cornish, T. (PI), Wilson, K. (CoPI), Christoffersen, A. (Researcher), Prentice, J. (Researcher) & Penda, V. (Researcher)
1/02/22 → 5/01/23
Project: Research
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Ethnic Bias in Ratings Demonstrated by Different Performance Dimension Intercorrelations
Wilson, K. & Jones, R., Apr 2017.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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Performance appraisal.
Wilson, K. & Jones, R., 2018, In Cornish, T. and Calvard, T. (Eds.), The Psychology of Ethnicity in Organisations.. Palgrave MacmillanResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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International and intranational cultures in organizations: overlapping or contested terrain?
Wilson, K. & Schwabenland, C., 2012, In: Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice. 5, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
An analysis of bias in supervisor narrative comments in performance appraisal
Wilson, K., 2010, In: Human Relations. 63, 12, p. 1903-1933Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
37 Citations (Scopus) -
Reducing job-irrelevant bias in performance and appraisals: compliance and beyond
Wilson, K. & Jones, R., 2008, In: Journal of General Management. 34, 2, p. 57-70Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review