Faculty Profile

Dr.Kenneth Shultz

Kenneth S. Shultz
Professor

Ph.D., Wayne State University
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Post Doc - University of Southern California, Social Gerontology

Contact Information:

Office:SB-536
Phone:909.537.5484
Fax:909.537.7003
Email:kshultz@csusb.edu

Full Curriculum Vitae (last updated May 2009)

Research and Teaching Interests:

Aging and Work, Personnel Selection, Applied Measurement Issues

Classes:

Undergraduate
Psyc120 - Career Development
PSYC 210- Psychological Statistics
PSYC 302- Organizational Behavior
PSYC 355- Industrial Psychology
PSYC 377 - Tests and Measurement
PSYC 410 - Advanced Psychological Statistics
PSYC 438 - Experimental Psychology: I/O

Graduate
Psyc/HD540 - Work, Retirement, and Leisure
Psyc581a - Seminar in I/O Psychology
Psyc601 - Performance Assessment
Psyc603 - Personnel Selection and Validation
Psyc642 - Regression and Nonparametric Statistics
Psyc644 - Applied Psychological Measurement
Psyc675 - Practicum in Applied Psychology

Honors and Awards:

Outstanding Achievement in Professional Development and Research, Department of Psychology, CSUSB, AY 2004-2005.

Outstanding Achievement in Professional Development and Research, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUSB, AY 2007-2008.

Representative Publications:

Articles published since 2003. see link above to my full curriculum Vitae for a listing of all professional publications. reprints of all publications available upon request.

*Designates Current or former student

Shultz, K.S., Wang, M., & Olson, D.A. (in-press). Role overload and underload in relation to occupational stress and health. Stress and Health.

Shultz, K.S., Wang, M., Crimmins, E., & Fisher, G.F. (in-press). Age differences in the Demand-Control Model of work stress: An examination of data from 15 European countries. Journal of Applied Gerontology.

von Bonsdorff, M.E., Shultz, K.S., Leskinen, E., & Tansky, J. (in-press). The choice between retirement and bridge employment: A continuity theory and life course perspective. International Journal of Aging and Human Devleopment.

Zhan, Y., Wang, M., Lui, S., & Shultz, K.S. (in-press). Bridge employment and retirees' health: A longitudinal investigation. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

*Forsberg, A.M., & Shultz, K.S. (2009). Perceived fairness of a background information form and job knowledge test. Public Personnel Management, 38, 33-46.

*Styers, B.A., & Shultz, K.S. (2009). Perceived reasonableness of employment testing accommodationas for persons with disabilities. Public Personnel Management.

*Madvig, T.L., & Shultz, K.S. (2008). Modeling individual’s post-retirement behaviors toward their former organization. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 23 (1/2), 17-49.

Wang, M., Zhan, Y., Liu, S., & Shultz, K.S. (2008). Antecedents of bridge employment: A longitudinal investigation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 818-830.

*Loi, J.L.P, & Shultz, K.S. (2007). Why older adults seek employment: Differing motivations among subgroups. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 26, 274-289.

Shultz, K.S., & Wang, M. (2007). The influence of specific physical health conditions on retirement decisions. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 65, 149-161.

Taylor, M.A., Shultz, K.S., Morrison, R.F., *Spiegel, P.E., & Greene, J. (2007). Occupational attachment and met expectations as predictors of retirement adjustment of naval officers, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37, 1697-1725.

Shultz, K.S., Hoffman, C.C., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2005). Using archival data for I-O research: Advantages, pitfalls, sources, and examples . The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 42 (3), 31-37.

*Barrah, J.L., Shultz, K.S., Baltes, B., & Stolz, H.E. (2004). Men’s and women’s elder care based work family conflict: Antecedents and work related outcomes. Fathering, 2, 305-330.

Shultz, K.S., Taylor, M.A., & Morrison, R.F. (2003). Work related attitudes of naval officers before and after retirement. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 57 (3), 261-276.

*Spiegel, P.E., & Shultz, K.S. (2003). The influence of pre-retirement planning and transferability of skills on naval officers' retirement satisfaction and adjustment. Military Psychology, 15 (4), 284-306.

Book Chapters:

Wang, M., Adams, G.A., Beehr, T.A., & Shultz, K.S. (2009). Bridge employment and retirement: Issues: Opportunities during the latter part of one's career. In S.G. Baugh and S.E. Sullivan (Eds.), Maintaining Focus, Energy, and Options over the Life Span (Chapter 6, pp. 135-162). Charlotte, NC: IAP - Information Age Publishing.

Shultz, K.S., & Wang, M. (2008). The changing nature of mid and late careers. In C. Wankel (Ed.), 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook. Vol 2 (Ch 63, pp. 130-138). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Adams, G.A., & Shultz, K.S. (2007). Editors’ overview. In K.S. Shultz and G.A. Adams (Eds.), Aging and Work in the 21st Century (Ch 1, pp. 1-6). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Shultz, K.S., & Adams, G.A. (2007). In search of a unifying paradigm for understanding aging and work in the 21st century. In K.S. Shultz and G.A. Adams (Eds.), Aging and Work in the 21st Century. (Ch 14, pp. 303-319). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Taylor, M.A., Shultz, K.S., & Doverspike, D. (2005). Academic perspectives on recruiting and retaining older workers. In P.T. Beatty and R.M.S. Visser (Eds.), Thriving on an aging workforce: Strategies for organizational and systemic change. (Ch 4, pp. 43-50). Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Company.

Shultz, K.S. (2003). Bridge employment: Work after retirement. In G.A. Adams and T.A. Beehr (Eds.), Retirement: Reasons, processes and results. (Chapter 9, pp. 214-241). New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Books:

Wang, M., Shultz, K.S., & Olson, D.A. (in progress). Mid and late career issues: Psycho-social dynamics and perspectives. New York, NY: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis Group [tentative publication date: Fall 2010]

Shultz, K.S., & Adams, G.A. (Eds.) (2007). Aging and work in the 21st century. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. (now Psychology Press)

Shultz, K.S., & Whitney, D.A. (2005). Measurement theory in action: Case studies and exercises . Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Encyclopedia Entries:

Adams, G.A., & Shultz, K.S. (2006). Retirement. In S. Rogelberg (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Shultz, K.S., & Whitney, D.J. (2006). Prescreening assessment methods for personnel selection. In S. Rogelberg (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Adams, G.A., & Shultz, K.S. (2005). Retirement. In N. J. Salkind and K. DeRuyck (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Human Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Student Research Projects

STUDENT MASTERS THESES (completed)

Andrew Ansoorian (Sept 1996) “The Influence of Expertise and Gender on Job Analysis Ratings for a Physically Demanding Job” [presented at SIOP 1997]

Linda Araki (June 1995) “Statistical Competency of Psychology Students” [presented at WPA 1995]

Jaime Barrah (June 2001) “Elder Care Based Work-Family Conflict: Antecedents and Outcomes” [presented at GSA 2001; published in Fathering, 2004]

James Baxter (July 2003) “Construct validation of a common format biodata within the public sector” [presented at SIOP 2005]

Alex Brody (Nov 2005) “Bridge employment: Can occupational self efficacy determine which bridges are crossed?” [presented at SIOP 2006]

Autumn Carroll (November 2004) “Successful Mid-life Aging in a Changing Work Environment” [presented at SIOP 2006]

Alexius Cheang (December 2001) “I/O program, program evaluation”

Maryann Christie (June 1996) “Gender Differences in Coping with Work Stress and Predicting Work Related Outcomes” [published in Work and Stress, 1998]

Jennifer Cremer (January 2008) “The Effects of Age, Computer Self-Efficacy, Computer Anxiety, and Computer Experience on Training Method Preference in Employees”

Anna Forsberg (April 2004) “Differences by Occupation in Perceive Face Validity and Procedural Justice of a Common Format Application of Hard Biodata and a Written Job Knowledge Test” [presented at SIOP 2005; published in Public Personnel Management, 2009]

Tracy Lindbo (Dec 1998) “Modeling Retiree Reciprocity in Organizations” [presented at SIOP 1999; published in Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 2008]

Jasmin Loi (November 2001) – “Motivations for older adults seeking employment” [presented at SIOP 2002; published in Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2007]

Jennifer Mersman (June 1996) “Individual Differences in the Tendency to Fake Good in Personaltiy Assessment” [presented at SIOP 1997; published in Personality and Individual Differences, 1998]

David Morris (April 2002) “Comparing Job Component Validity to Observed Validity Across Jobs" [presented at SIOP 2003]

Jyotsna Paintal (October 2008) – "The Influence of Pre-Retirement Planning on Adjustment to and Satisfaction with Retirement" [submitted for publication]

Chanjira Pengcharoen (March 2007) “The Influence of Work and Nonwork-Related Factors on Bridge Employment Decisions” [presented at SIOP 2008]

Ryan Pennock (May 1998) ”Fakability in Structured Interviews: A Comparsion of Situational and Past Behavior Formats” [presented at APA 1999]

Michele Schulz (June 2001) “The Influence of Job Type, Information Provided, Test Type, and Test Performance on Applicant Reactions to Personnel Selection Tests” [submitted to SIOP 2002 – not accepted]

Peter Spiegel (May 2000) “Military Retirement Satisfaction and Adjustment: The Effects of Planning, Having Transferable Skills, and Having Identified With and Been Committed to, the Navy on a Sample of Retired Naval Officers” [presented at APA 2001; published in Military Psychology 2003]

Bridget Styers (June 2001) “Influences on the Perceived Reasonableness of Employment Testing Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities” [presented at SIOP 2002; published in Public Personnel Management, 2009]

Joelle Baer Weckerle (June 1995) “Influences on the Bridge Employment Decisions of Older Workers” [presented at SIOP 1996, published in Journal of Organizational and Occupational Psychology, 1999]

Larry Weitzel (Dec 1999) “Assessing Business Writing: An Examination of Scoring Method, Writing Sample Complexity, and Rating Variability” [presented at IPMAAC 1997]

STUDENT MASTERS THESES (in progress)

Dalia Arellano - Group versus individual performance on a problem solving task

Tejas Dalvi - Self-employment as a form of bridge employment

Brian Decalb - RJPs influences on post hire outcomes in nurses

Alex Nedilskyj - Superior-subordinate dyads and aging