Seeking Explanations in People, Not in the Results of Their Behavior: Twenty-Plus Years of the Attraction–Selection– Attrition Model

Ben Schneider’s presidential address to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in 1985 was not the rst time that he had presented the attraction-selection-attrition (ASA) framework-he had previously published articles presenting the model and had described it at some length (e.g., Schneider, 1983). But the presidential address, and

especially the classic 1987 article that grew from that address, is often described as the starting point for ASA research, probably because of the clarity with which the model was presented, the wide industrial and organizational (I-O) audience it reached, and the passion that Ben showed in presenting his argument that “the people make the place.”