Where Have All the “Workers” Gone? A Critical Analysis of the Unrepresentativeness of Our Samples Relative to the Labor Market in the Industrial–Organizational Psychology Literature

By Mindy E. Bergman, Vanessa A. Jean. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2015

128 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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4. Louis Tay

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Citations in the corpus

• A Tale of Two Sample Sources: Do Results from Online Panel Data and Conventional Data Converge? (2018, background): “…argued that OPD are more generalizable than typical organizational samples precisely because they are more diverse and because demographic and other characteristics can be screened for in advance to compose samples with the desired characteristics (Bergman & Jean, 2016; Landers & Behrend, 2015).”
• Systems Perspective of Amazon Mechanical Turk for Organizational Research: Review and Recommendations (2017, background): “For MTurk to be a viable option for organizational researchers, the sample should be representative of the target population (e.g., employed workers; Bergman and Jean, 2016) and appropriate for the research questions within organizational settings.”