Performance Improvement Quarterly Volume 35: Issue 1-4

Change the set of disturbances, and the organization, without itself changing, is evaluated “bad” instead of “good.” (Ashby, 2004, p. 114)

A lot has happened in such a short time for ISPI and its seminal publications. We appreciate everyone's patience as we transitioned to a new publisher. It has been a short delay, but we are now back to publishing novel approaches to improving human performance across different industries and organizations.

This year (2022), ISPI successfully conducted its first face-to-face conference since the pre-pandemic era. It's been a while since everyone has been able to visit each other

This paper presents preservice teachers' perceptions and ideological underpinnings regarding children and families from poverty. Using a phenomenological approach, thirteen undergraduate preservice teachers from a small, liberal arts university in Northeast US were interviewed. Participants' perceptions of indigent children and families revealed five themes. Perceptions were multifaceted, with intimate connections to their own experiences. This paper aims to generate scholarly interest in exploring preservice teachers' perceptions about indigent children and families that live in poverty. Exploring preservice teachers' instructional ideologies may help in designing teacher preparation programs that result in improved classroom instruction and a decrease in in-service teacher attrition from high-poverty schools.

Building on recent research in organizational justice, this study examined the impact of four factors of justice on perceived overall fairness of performance appraisal (PA) systems. The study used a survey questionnaire to collect data from 259 public servants in Pakistan. Based on fundamental ethical principles that employees desire public managers to be unbiased, we developed the hypotheses that were, subsequently, tested using variance-based structural equation modeling in SmartPLS 3.0. The results of the study revealed evidence that, in the context of PA systems, high interpersonal justice is indeed associated with decreased perceptions of overall fairness. The findings of the study provide guidance to public managers that distributive justice, procedural justice, and informational justice perceptions are more conducive for overall fairness perceptions in the PA system than interpersonal justice. Although the negative effect of interpersonal justice seems plausible, surprisingly, empirical research hitherto has not directly investigated this possibility.

The study conducts a systematic review focused on the methods privileged by researchers when they study collective performance in sports. For this purpose, 158 articles published between 2008 and 2019 were selected and submitted to an iterative process of qualitative analysis. Results showed that there are three main types of research methods to study collective performance in sports: (a) characterization of a high-achieving sport collective, (b) multifactorial impact analysis, and (c) experimentation of an intervention protocol. The results collected also tended to prove that research on performance in sports requires to deal with a wide range of factors at the same time, which makes it necessary to design a research method that's more systemic. Moreover, we identify and discuss two methodological approaches: “studying performance in order to infuse change” on the one hand; “infusing change in order to study performance” on the other.

PORTRAITS OF INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE AT WORK: A REVIEW OF THE HIGH LITERATURE

Yuri de Souza Odaguiri Enes,

Juliana Costa Mota,

Mariana Borges Nunes Vieira,

Thaís Ferreira Lopes,

Renata Avancini Tonini, and

Francisco Antonio Coelho Junior

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PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF POVERTY: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH

DOES INTERPERSONAL JUSTICE NEGATIVELY PREDICT OVERALL PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL FAIRNESS? A PAKISTANI STUDY

METHODS FOR STUDYING COLLECTIVE PERFORMANCE IN SPORTS: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW

PORTRAITS OF INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE AT WORK: A REVIEW OF THE HIGH LITERATURE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT: A SCOPING REVIEW

FEATURES OF INSTRUCTOR SALARY AND WELFARE: HOW DO PSYCHOLOGICAL OWNERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE SHAPE INSTRUCTORS’ WILLINGNESS TO LEAVE CHINA’S PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES?

EDITOR’S NOTES—SURVIVAL OF ISPI, HPT, PI: ARE WE STILL RELEVANT?

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AMID A GLOBAL CRISIS: THE INFLUENCE OF LEADER BEHAVIOR AND ITS OUTCOMES

CHIEF LEARNING OFFICERS: PERSPECTIVES ON COMPETENCIES, ROLES, AND TASKS

A QUASIEXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF A CLINICAL RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM

MENTAL READINESS IN EMERGENCY RESPONSE TASKS

FEATURES OF INSTRUCTOR SALARY AND WELFARE: HOW DO PSYCHOLOGICAL OWNERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE SHAPE INSTRUCTORS’ WILLINGNESS TO LEAVE CHINA’S PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES?

PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF POVERTY: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH