Interest in the construct of mindfulness has steadily increased in recent years. The current investigation characterized mindfulness as a personal resource that has the potential to help individuals deal with stressors at work, thereby reducing the likelihood that those stressors will result in personal and job-related strain outcomes. This possibility was examined by considering mindfulness in relation to various stressors (i.e., workload, organizational constraints, experienced incivility) and strain outcomes (i.e., mental symptoms of strain, physical symptoms of strain, job dissatisfaction). Data were collected via an online survey administered to a sample of police officers (n ϭ 239). Two statistically significant interactions were observed, whereby mindfulness moderated the relationship between workload and both mental and physical symptoms of strain.

This study compared contextualized and non-contextualized personality measures in operational hiring situations, unlike previous research which has largely relied on student or job incumbent samples. Comparisons were made with regard to (A) the frames-of-reference adopted by applicants when responding to the measures, (B) relations with subsequent employment interview scores, (C) applicant reactions, and (D) mean scores for the personality scales. The findings highlight potential concerns with using non-contextualized personality measures for employee selection, as job applicants will likely adopt various frames-of-reference unrelated to the intended focus of measurement (i.e., work). Results also indicated that it may be premature to assume contextualized measures elicit improved applicant reactions despite their apparent job-relatedness. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ijsa

This Work-in-Progress Research paper describes (1) the contemporary research space on ethics education in engineering; (2) our long-term research plan; (3) the theoretical underpinnings of Phase 1 of our research plan (phenomenography); and (4) the design and developmental process of a phenomenographic interview protocol to explore engineers' experiences with ethics. Ethical behavior is a complex phenomenon that is complicated by the institutional and cultural contexts in which it occurs. Engineers also have varied roles and often work in a myriad of capacities that influence their experiences with and understanding of ethics in practice. We are using phenomenography, a qualitative research approach, to explore and categorize the ways engineers experience and understand ethical engineering practice. Specifically, phenomenography will allow us to systematically investigate the range and complexity of ways that engineers experience ethics in professional practice in the health products industry. Phenomenographic data will be obtained through a specialized type of semi-structured interview. Here we introduce the design of our interview protocol and its four sections: Background, Experience, Conceptual, and Summative. We also describe our iterative process for framing questions throughout each section.

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