Paul Dobson

Paul Dobson joined the Business School after postgraduate research in occupational psychology at Birkbeck College. As a Chartered Psychologist, he has specialist expertise in the field of applied psychometrics and acts as an assessor and external verifier for the British Psychological Society in this area. His current research interests include the assessment and development of the interpersonal skills of managers, and cross-cultural psychology.

Qualifications

BSc (London) and PhD (City).

Visiting Appointments

Psychologist Assessor, Civil Service Selection Board (Fast Stream entry), Jan 1988 – Jan 1996

Fellowships

Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society, 1999 – present

Memberships of Committees

Verifier for training of psychological assessors, British Psychological Society, Level A Verifiers Steering Committee

Memberships of Professional Organisations

• Chartered Scientist, The Science Council, 2009 – present
• Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society, Jan 1999 – present
• Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society, Jan 1989 – present

Expertise

Primary Topics

• Management Learning
• Organisational Psychology
• Organizational Culture

Additional Topics

• Management Development
• Mathematical & Quantitative Methods

Research Topics

Identification of management talent

Design and evaluation of 360 tools for the identification of effective middle and senior managers

Management development

Use of experiential workshops to develop the key skills of managers

Cross cultural psychology

See publications

Web 2.0

Use and impact of Web 2.0 technology in the workplace

Gas Discharge Visualization

Investigation into the relationship between GDV and human personality

Books (2)

• Williams, A.P.O., Woodward, S. and Dobson, P. (2002). Managing Change Successfully: Integrating Theory and Experience. Thomson Learning (now Cengage Learning). ISBN 978-1-86152-981-7.
• Williams, A., Dobson, P. and Walters, M. (1993). Changing culture. Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development. ISBN 978-0-85292-533-1.

Chapters (6)

• Dobson, P. and O'Keeffe, E. (2011). Cognition as a moderator of GDV emission: past research, a current expanation and some ideas for the future. In Korotkov, K. (Ed.), Energy Fields: Electrophotonic Analysis in Humans and Nature (pp. 177–190). Saint Petersburg: SPIFO. ISBN 978-5-91014-022-0.
• Williams, A.P.O. and Dobson, P. (1997). Personnel Selection and Corporate Strategy. In Anderson, N. and Herriot, P. (Eds.), International Handbook of Selection and Assessment; Assessment and Selection in Organizations: Methods and Practice for Recruitment and Appraisal, Volume 2 (pp. 219–245). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-96638-8.
• Williams, A.P.O. and Dobson, P. (1996). Culture Change Through Training: The Case of Sainsbury. In Brian Towers, (Ed.), The Handbook of Human Resource Management Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-19851-2.
• Dobson, P. and Williams, A.P.O. (1992). Culture Change through Training: the Case of Sainsbury. In Towers, B. (Ed.), The Handbook of Human Resource Management London: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-19851-2.
• Dobson, P. (1989). Reference Reports. In Herriot, P. (Ed.), Assessment and Selection in Organizations (pp. 455–468). Wiley.
• Dobson, P. (1989). Self and Peer Assessment. In Herriot, P. (Ed.), Assessment and Selection in Organizations (pp. 421–432). Wiley.

Journal Articles (16)

• Dobson, P. and Gelade, G.A. (2012). Exploring the Roots of Culture Using Spatial Autocorrelation. CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH, 46(2), pp. 160–187. doi:10.1177/1069397111430460.
• Dobson, P. (2012). Building Semi-Virtual Teams: a case study from Cass Business School's Modular Executive programmes. Studies in Higher Education .
• Dobson, P. and Rosen, A. (2012). The Nature, Use and Misuse of 360 Degree Feedback. International Journal of Selection and Assessment .
• Dobson, P. and Gelade, G. (2011). The Organization of National Culture within Geographical and Eco-Social Space. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology .
• Gelade, G.A., Dobson, P. and Auer, K. (2008). Individualism, masculinity, and the sources of organizational commitment. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 39(5), pp. 599–617. doi:10.1177/0022022108321308.
• Gelade, G.A. and Dobson, P. (2007). Predicting the comparative strengths of national football teams. Social Science Quarterly, 88(1), pp. 244–258. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6237.2007.00456.x.
• Gelade, G.A., Dobson, P. and Gilbert, P. (2006). National differences in organizational commitment - Effect of economy, product of personality, or consequence of culture? JOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY, 37(5), pp. 542–556. doi:10.1177/0022022106290477.
• Dobson, P. (2000). An Investigation into the Relationship between Neuroticism, Extraversion and Cognitive Test Performance in Selection. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 8(3), pp. 99–109. doi:10.1111/1468-2389.00140.
• Dobson, P. and O'Keefe, E. (2000). Research into the Efficacy of the Gas Discharge Visualisation Technique as a Measure of Physical and Mental Health. International Journal of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine, (February) .
• Dobson, P., Krapljan-Barr, P. and Vielba, C. (1999). An Evaluation of the Validity and Fairness of the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) Used for MBA Selection in a UK Business School. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 7(4), pp. 196–202.
• Dobson, P. (1996). A Case of when Fair is Unfair. Selection and Development Review, 12(2), pp. 3–5.
• Dobson, P. (1996). The Darkside of Competence: Building Cultures in the Air. Journal of Professional Human Resource Management, 1(2), pp. 3–9.
• Dobson, P. and Williams, A.P.O. (1993). The Use of Developmental Assessment Centres on MBA Programmes. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 1(4), pp. 233–240. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2389.1993.tb00118.x.
• DOBSON, P. and WILLIAMS, A. (1989). THE VALIDATION OF THE SELECTION OF MALE BRITISH-ARMY OFFICERS. JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, 62(4), pp. 313–325.
• Dobson, P. (1988). The correction of correlation coefficients for restriction of range when restriction results from the truncation of a normally distributed variable. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 41(2), pp. 227–234. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8317.1988.tb00898.x.
• Dobson, P. (1988). Changing Cultures. Employment Gazette

Course Directorship

• 2012 - present, MEMBA, Director
• 1998 - 2001, FT MBA (HRM), Director

Subject/Academic Leadership

• 2006 - 2011, Centre for Leadership, Learning & Change, Deputy Director

Editorial Activities (3)

• Asia-Pacific Review, Referee, 2008 – present.
• British Journal of Management, Referee, 1998 – present.
• International Journal of Assessment and Selection, Referee, 1995 – present.