Neil Anderson

Title of keynote: Applicant reactions to major selection methods: Culturally specific or an international phenomenon?

Neil Anderson is Professor of Work & Organizational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands.

He is Founding Editor of the International Journal of Selection and Assessment. He has co-authored and edited a number of books including the Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology and the Blackwell Handbook of Selection. His work has appeared in several scholarly journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and the International Journal of Selection and Assessment. Neil has on-going research projects, either collaboratively or alone, into innovation and creativity in the workplace, interviewer and applicant decision making in assessment interviews, work group socialization of graduates, the structure and psychometric properties of Five Factor Model occupational personality inventories, and the practitioner-researcher divide in work and organizational psychology. Committed to an international perspective in work psychology, Neil has been Visiting Professor to the University of Minnesota (USA) and the School of Management, Zhejiang University (China). Neil is Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the American Psychological Association. He has advised numerous organizations in the UK, Europe and the USA on issues related to personnel psychology including British Aerospace, the British Army, Shell, and NASA in the US (Jupiter Mission).