THE BEST AND THE REST: REVISITING THE NORM OF NORMALITY OF INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE

By Ernest H. O’Boyle, Herman Aguinis. 2012

261 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Benyamin Lichtenstein
2. Herman Aguinis
3. Bill McKelvey
4. G. Crawford
5. Harry Joo
6. R. Gottfredson
7. Per Davidsson
8. Dimo Dimov

In Safety Research

1. Harry Joo
2. R. Gottfredson
3. Benyamin Lichtenstein
4. Per Davidsson
5. Herman Aguinis

In Sociology and Political Science

1. R. Gottfredson
2. Harry Joo
3. John P. Campbell
4. Benyamin Lichtenstein
5. Brenton M. Wiernik
6. Per Davidsson
7. Herman Aguinis

Citations in the corpus

• What monetary rewards can and cannot do: How to show employees the money (2013, background): “Further, higher levels of pay and better pay-performance alignment are especially valued by top performers: a minority of highly sought-after employees who contribute to the majority of organizations’ output (Aguinis, Gottfredson, & Joo, 2012b; O’Boyle & Aguinis, 2012).”
• Power law distributions in entrepreneurship: : Implications for theory and research (2015, background): “…(Fleming, 2007; Fleming and Sorenson, 2004); the structure of networks (Barabási et al., 2002); corporate competitive advantage (Powell, 2003); and the performance of individual workers, ranging from entertainers to politicians and researchers (Aguinis et al., in press; O'Boyle and Aguinis, 2012).”
• Using performance management to win the talent war (2012, background): “Second, top performers generate a great deal of revenues, profit, and overall success for their organizations (O’Boyle & Aguinis, 2012).”
• The Modeling and Assessment of Work Performance (2015, background): “Recently, O’Boyle & Aguinis (2012) raised the issue of the distributional properties of individual performance and their implications for performance assessment, prediction, and management.”
• Best-Practice Recommendations for Defining, Identifying, and Handling Outliers (2013, background): “For example, O’Boyle and Aguinis (2012) conducted five separate studies including 198 samples and 632,500 individual performers including researchers, politicians, entertainers, and athletes.”