Department of Psychology

About Dr. Bartels

Lynn K. Bartels received her Doctorate in I/O Psychology from the University of Akron and started teaching at SIUE in 1991. She is currently Co-chair of the Department of Psychology and teaches courses in I/O Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Employee Development, Psychological Testing, and Statistics. Her research interests include employee selection and development, particularly the use of assessment centers, and sexual harassment. Her work has been published in the Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, Journal of Psychology, and Public Productivity and Management Review. Dr. Bartels has worked in human resource consulting for public and private sector organizations. She has experience in human resource selection, test validation, structured interviewing, assessment centers, training, outplacement, and more. She is active in several professional associations, including Gateway I/O Psychologists, Society for I/O Psychology, Academy of Management, and American Psychological Association.

Representative Publications

• Bartels, L. K., Nordstrom, C. R., & Koski, J. (2006). Using a Structured Interview Demonstration to Explore Psychometric Issues. Teaching of Psychology, 33(1) 64-65.
• Mallo, J. R., Nordstrom, C. R., Bartels, L. K., & Traxler, A. (in press). Electronic performance monitoring: The effects of age and task difficulty. Performance Improvement Quarterly.
• Bartels, L. K, Macan, T., Gutting, B., Lemming, M., & McCrea, R. (2005). Teaching the practitioner side of the Scientist-Practitioner Mode. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 42(3), 59-66.
• Bommer, W. H., Rubin, R. S., & Bartels, L. K. (2005). Assessing the unassessable: Interpersonal and managerial skills. In K. Martell & T. Calderon (Eds.) Assessment of Student Learning in Business Schools: Best Practices Each Step of the Way, 1 (pp. 103-129). Tallahasee, FL: The Association for Institutional Research and AACSB International.
• Rubin, R. S., Bartels, L. K. & Bommer, W.H. (2002). Are leaders smarter or do they just seem that way? Exploring perceived intellectual competence and leadership emergence. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 30(2), 105-118.
• Bartels, L. K. (2001). Book Review of Statt, D. A. (2000). Using psychology in management training: The psychological foundations of management skills. Routledge: London. Personal Psychology.