| Title: |
Associate Professor Director, Consumer and Industrial Research Program |
| Dept: | Psychology |
| Office: | CB 169 |
| Phone: | 216-687-2582 |
| Fax: | 216-687-9294 |
| Email: | C.C.BOWEN@csuohio.edu |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. CB 169, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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| Education: | ||||||||
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Ph.D., Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, 1993
M.S., Industrial and Organizational Psychology, National Chengchi University, 1987 B.S., Psychology, National Chengchi University, 1985 | ||||||||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Dr. Bowen is an Industrial and Organizational (I/O does not mean Input/Output) Psychologist with a Ph.D. from Penn State in 1993. She enjoys applying Psychological principles in the workplace to improve organizational efficiency without sacrificing employees' well-being. Based on the information at the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology web site (www.siop.org), the median salary was $90,000 for SIOP members with a Ph.D. and $60,000 for members with M.A./M.S. in 2001. If you are curious about I/O Psychology, she will be happy to talk with you.
Dr. Bowen enjoys teaching various graduate courses in I/O, (such as PSY 531, Computer Applications of Advanced Statistics, PSY 518 Personnel Psychology, PSY 631 Job Analysis and Performance Management and undergraduate courses such as PSY 411 Computer Software Package for Statistics, and PSY 255 Psychology of Women. Dr. Bowen stated that she was lucky to encounter some great professors during the years of her graduate study. She was inspired and motivated by them. Now she tries to motivate and encourage her students the same way. She is delighted to see the progress in her students as they transform from struggling, being confused to mastering the material in class. Dr. Bowen was also in charge of developing and administrating an ongoing university-wide Quality of Service Survey that investigated students' perception of the quality of service they received on CSU campus. The results of the annual survey were used for campus improvement interventions. Dr. Bowen's research interests include selection, performance appraisal, and gender and cultural issues in the workplace. One of her publications examined attitudes toward women as managers in China (Bowen, Wu, Hwang, Scherer, 2007) and another examined sex discrimination in selection and compensation in Taiwan (Bowen, 2003). Several recent publication related to research methods and statistics were in content analysis (Bowen & Bowen, In press), meta-analysis (Bowen, In press) and normative versus ipsative measures (2007), Two of her publications examined 'How effective are people at faking on occupational personality questionnaires?' (Martin, Bowen & Hunt, 2002) and 'A comparison of ipsative and normative approaches for ability to control faking in personality questionnaires' (Bowen, Martin, & Hunt, 2002). | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| Women's issues in the workplace, cross-cultural issues encountered by multi-national corporations went into a foreign country, performance management, employee/customer satisfaction survey, selection, job analysis, and application of psychometric techniques to validate tests or questionnaires as well as application of meta-analysis in human resource management | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| General Psychology
Psychology of Women (undergraduate) Industrial and Organizational Psychology Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology (undergraduate) Job Analysis and Performance Management (masters) Organizational Behavior Organizational Behavior (undergraduate) Organizational Psychology (masters) Organizational Development (masters) Applied Psychology in Personnel Management (masters) Advanced Seminar in Organizational Psychology (masters) Statistics /Research Methods Applied Statistics (undergraduate) Computer Application of Statistical Software (masters) Business Research Methods (masters) Human Resources Management International Human Resource Management (masters) Human Resource Management (masters) Seminar in Human Resource Development (doctoral) Seminar in Selection (masters) Human Resource Planning (masters) | ||
| Professional Affiliations: | ||
| American Psychological Association (APA)
Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Division 14 of the APA Serving on the SIOP Membership Committee Serving on the SIOP Education and Training Committee Society for Psychology of Women, Division 35 of the APA | ||
| Professional Experience: | ||
| Director, Consumer and Industrial Research Program, 2007 - present
Associate Department Chair, Department of Psychology, 2006 - 2008 President, Chinese American Faculty Staff Association at Cleveland State University, 2004-2005 Editorial Board, Journal of Business and Psychology 2004 - present | ||
| University Service: | ||
| Faculty Senate, multiple terms
Graduate Council, multiple terms Chair, College of Science Faculty Affairs Committee 2005-2007 Chair, University Faculty Affairs Committee 2007-2008, serving on the committee 2004-2008 Chair, Search Committee for CIRP position 2005 and 2006 Personnel Review Committee, Department of Psychology 2004-2006 Consumer and Industrial Research Program Committee, Department of Psychology, 1998 - present Experimental Research Program Committee, Department of Psychology, 1998 - present Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of Psychology, 1998 - 2007 Diversity Management Program Committee, 1998 - present | ||
| Professional Service: | ||
| President, Chinese American Faculty Staff Association at Cleveland State University, 2004-2005
Editorial Board, Journal of Business and Psychology 2004 - 2010 | ||
| Research Grants: | ||
| Social Desirability: Just exactly how can we control it? 1999-2001, Cleveland State University Established Full-Time Faculty Research Development Grant, $8,992.
Multinational Leadership and Management Practices: A Study in Taiwan. Research grant from National Science Council # NSC83-0301-H110-041, Part I & Part II. Feb 1, 1994-July 31, 1996, $40,000. The Stress of Married Women in Taipei and Its Relations to Family Style, Life Cycle and Employment Status. Research grant from Women's Research Program, Population Studies Center, National Taiwan University, 1987-1988, $1000. | ||