Understanding Self-Report Bias in Organizational Behavior Research

By S. Donaldson, E. Grant-Vallone. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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The evaluation of two key leadership development program components: Leadership skills assessment and leadership mentoring (2010, background): “Advancements in the social sciences' theoretical perspectives are largely dependent on the empirical evaluation of these theories; however, there is continuous concern about the accuracy of measurement in organizational research (Donaldson & Grant-Vallone, 2002).”
Different Media for Organizational Communication: Perceptions of Quality and Satisfaction (2006, methodology): “Because all our measures were collected on a single self-report survey, common method variance (CMV) may have inflated or reduced ( Donaldson & Grant-Vallone, 2002; Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Lee, & Podsakoff, 2003) the relationships found between variables examined in this study.”
Psychopathy in the workplace: The knowns and unknowns (2013, methodology): “Despite the convenience of this method, it is subject to mono-method and rater biases (see Donaldson & Grant-Vallone, 2002).”
Determining employee awareness using the Human Aspects of Information Security Questionnaire (HAIS-Q) (2014, background): “This should remove any situational characteristics that would lead people to give socially desirable answers, and should therefore reduce bias (Donaldson and Grant-Vallone, 2002).”
Demand-side solutions for climate mitigation: Bottom-up drivers of household energy behavior change in the Netherlands and Spain (2020, background): “The wording of questions and response scales [19], as well as the respondents’ tendency to answer questions untruthfully, particularity for behavioral factors when they may feel pressure to give socially acceptable answers [69], can all contribute to a response bias.”
Consumer complicity with counterfeit products (2011, methodology): “Using this type of data presents its own unique problems (see Donaldson and Grant-Valone, 2002”
OMG, I Have to Tweet that! A Study of Factors that Influence Tweet Rates (2012, methodology): “Donaldson and Grant-Vallone (2002) report on selfreporting bias in the context of organizational behavior research, and suggest that not properly accounting for such bias can lead to misleading empirical results.”
On doing relevant and rigorous experiments: Review and recommendations (2018, result): “Hypothetical studies, similarly to standard questionnaires, suffer from the well-known problems of self-reported measures (Donaldson & Grant-Vallone, 2002; P. M. Podsakoff & Organ, 1986); it is uncertain whether the self-reported intentions will ultimately translate into real actions.”
Common Method Variance in Advertising Research: When to Be Concerned and How to Control for It (2017, methodology): “TABLE 1 The Development of CMV as a Methodological Concern (Continued) Notable Articles Research Focus Methodology Employed Conclusions about CMV Main Takeaways Schaller, Patil, and Malhotra (2015) Comparison of statistical procedures to detect and control for CMV Traditional MTMM analysis Average s”