Career Experiences and Scientific Performance: A Study of Social, Physical, Life, and Health Sciences

Mumford, Michael D.; Connelly, Mary Shane; Scott, Ginamarie; Espejo, Jazmine; Sohl, Laura; Hunter, Samuel T.; Bedell, Katrina E.

doi:10.1207/s15326934crj1702&3_1

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“…Even bearing this caveat in mind, however, it is clear that experiences in one's doctoral program provide a foundation for subsequent career development (Mumford et al, 2005). Accordingly, it seems plausible to argue that these early experiences, in conjunction with other later experiences, will influence ethical decision making for a substantial period of time.…”

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confidence: 99%

ARTICLES: Validation of Ethical Decision Making Measures: Evidence for a New Set of Measures

Mumford¹,

Devenport²,

Brown³

et al. 2006

Ethics & Behavior

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Ethical decision making measures are widely applied as the principal dependent variable used in studies of research integrity. However, evidence bearing on the internal and external validity of these measures is not available. In this study, ethical decision making measures were administered to 102 graduate students in the biological, health, and social sciences, along with measures examining exposure to ethical breaches and the severity of punishments recommended. The ethical decision making measure was found to be related to exposure to ethical events and the severity of punishments awarded. The implications of these findings for the application of ethical decision making measures are discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

ARTICLES: Validation of Ethical Decision Making Measures: Evidence for a New Set of Measures

Mumford¹,

Devenport²,

Brown³

et al. 2006

Ethics & Behavior

119

129

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“…For example, in examining the life histories of eminent creative scientists and artists, Simonton (1975Simonton ( , 1988b. In an examination of the obituaries of leading scientists, Mumford et al (2005) identified important career events such as early exposure to the field and supervised practice as critical indicators of late-life innovation. Finally, in a review of early career events, clear differences arose between the patterns of development between charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic leaders (Ligon et al, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One example of the benefits of utilizing subjective and objective criteria can be found in a study conducted on the performance contributions of eminent leaders of scientific endeavors (Mumford et al, 2005). Here we examined the academic obituaries of 600 eminent leaders in social, biological, health, and natural scientific domains.…”

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Quantifying leader lives: What historiometric approaches can tell us

Ligon

Harris

Hunter³

2012

The Leadership Quarterly

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“…In one recent study along these lines, Mumford et al (2005) content analyzed obituaries for 499 scientists working in the physical, life, health, and social sciences. This analysis revealed that exposure to select events such as mentoring (Zuckerman, 1977), intense educational experiences (Subotnik & Steiner, 1993), and laboratory quality (Dunbar, 1995) discriminated more successful from less successful scientists producing multiple correlations with ratings of creative performance in the .50s-even when relevant controls, such as years in the profession and age at time of death, were taken into account.…”

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Environmental Influences on Ethical Decision Making: Climate and Environmental Predictors of Research Integrity

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It is commonly held that early career experiences influence ethical behavior. One way early career experiences might operate is to influence the decisions people make when presented with problems that raise ethical concerns. To test this proposition, 102 first-year doctoral students were asked to complete a series of measures examining ethical decision making along with a series of measures examining environmental experiences and climate perceptions. Factoring of the environmental measure yielded five dimensions: professional leadership, poor coping, lack of rewards, limited competitive pressure, and poor career direction. Factoring of the climate inventory yielded four dimensions: equity, interpersonal conflict, occupational engagement, and work commitment. When these dimensions were used to predict performance on the ethical decision-making task, it was found that the environmental dimensions were better predictors than the climate dimensions. The implications of these findings for research on ethical conduct are discussed.

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Career Experiences and Scientific Performance: A Study of Social, Physical, Life, and Health Sciences

Cited by 23 publications

References 50 publications

ARTICLES: Validation of Ethical Decision Making Measures: Evidence for a New Set of Measures

ARTICLES: Validation of Ethical Decision Making Measures: Evidence for a New Set of Measures

Quantifying leader lives: What historiometric approaches can tell us

Environmental Influences on Ethical Decision Making: Climate and Environmental Predictors of Research Integrity

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