ABSTRACT
This article was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology (Miner and Raju 2004), achieving its final form only after a number of years. Thus, a bit of history is necessary to explain how the authors came to their various roles. As originally drafted, the paper was intended to point up certain omissions in the Stewart and Roth (2001) meta-analysis, and did not contain any meta-analytic findings of its own. On the recommendation of the then-editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology the conclusions were put in meta-analytic form and the second author was added for this purpose. As a result there was a considerable lapse of time; furthermore there was a change of editors, as well as many new directions in the focus of the article. Nam Raju did the meta-analyses and I gave him the data. Much of the write-up continued to use my original input, but Nam’s quantitative expertise contributed a great deal to the final product.
