Karin A. Orvis

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Education:

Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology
George Mason University

Research Interests:

Dr. Orvis' research interests lie in three general areas in personnel psychology: training and development, non-cognitive predictors, and selection and workplace diversity. Her training and development related interests focus on enhancing the effectiveness of self-development and technology-delivered training.Her second area of interest focuses on understanding the impact of non-cognitive predictors, such as personality and self-efficacy, on employee job performance and behavior. Dr. Orvis' selection and workplace diversity related interests focus on understanding determinants of the mean subgroup differences of cognitively-based selection measures and how to reduce these differences in order to increase workplace diversity.

For more specific information about Dr. Orvis' research and courses, visit her website at www.odu.edu/~korvis/ .

Contact Information:

Room 346C, Mills Godwin Building
Department of Psychology
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529-0267
Phone: 757-683-4215
Fax: 757-683-5087
E-mail: korvis@odu.edu