Brian J. Hoffman

Dr. Hoffman is planning on admitting a doctoral student for Fall 2025

Mailing Address: 
125 Baldwin Street, Athens, GA 30602

Education

Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2007

Research Interests

Dr. Hoffman’s primary research interests revolve around leadership, personnel selection, and the assessment of human performance. Specifically, he studies the traits and behaviors associated with leadership, the use of assessment centers and 360 Feedback in leader selection and development, and deviant traits and behaviors in the workplace. Recently, his research has focused on the changing nature of work and workers, star performers, and microaggressions in the workplace.

Selected Publications

Sackett, P. R., Putka, D. J., & Hoffman, B. J. (2024). Same as it ever was: A clarification on the sources of predictable variance in job performance ratings. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 17(3), 303-308.

Carter, K. M., Hetrick, A. L., Chen, M., Humphrey, S. E., Morgeson, F. P., & Hoffman, B. J. (2024). How culture shapes the influence of work design characteristics: a narrative and meta-analytic review. Journal of Management, 50(1), 122-157.

Hoffman, B. J., Shoss, M. K., & Wegman, L. A. (Eds.). (2020). The Cambridge handbook of the changing nature of work. Cambridge University Press.

Wegman, L. A., Hoffman, B. J., Carter, N. T., Twenge, J. M., & Guenole, N. (2018). Placing job characteristics in context: Cross-temporal meta-analysis of changes in job characteristics since 1975. Journal of Management, 44(1), 352-386.

Miller, J. D., Gentile, B., Carter, N. T., Crowe, M., Hoffman, B. J., & Campbell, W. K. (2018). A comparison of the nomological networks associated with forced-choice and Likert formats of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. Journal of personality assessment, 100(3), 259-267.

Gentry, W. A., Hoffman, B. J., & Lyons, B. D. (2017). Box scores and bottom lines: Sports data can inform research and practice in organizations. Journal of Business and Psychology, 32, 509-512.

Lyons, B. D., Hoffman, B. J., Bommer, W. H., Kennedy, C. L., & Hetrick, A. L. (2016). Off-duty deviance: Organizational policies and evidence for two prevention strategies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(4), 463.

Hoffman, B. J., Kennedy, C. L., LoPilato, A. C., Monahan, E. L., & Lance, C. E. (2015). A review of the content, criterion-related, and construct-related validity of assessment center exercises. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100(4), 1143.
 

Putka, D., & Hoffman, B. J. (2013). Clarifying the Contribution of Assessee-, Dimension-, Exercise-, and Assessor-Related Effects to Reliable and Unreliable Variance in Assessment Center Ratings.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 98, 114-133.

Eby, L., Allen, T. D., Hoffman, B. J., Baranik, L. E., Sauer, J. B., Baldwin, S., & ... Evans, S. C. (2013). An Interdisciplinary Meta-Analysis of the Potential Antecedents, Correlates, and Consequences of Protege Perceptions of Mentoring.Psychological Bulletin, 139(2), 441-476.

Hoffman, B. J., Gorman, A., Atchley, E. K., Blair, C., Meriac, J., & Overstreet, B.  (2012).  Evidence for the effectiveness of an alternative multi-source feedback measurement methodology. Personnel Psychology, 65(3),531-563.

Campbell, W. K., Hoffman, B. J., Campbell, S. M., & Marchisio, G. (2011). Narcissism in organizational contexts. Human Resource Management Review, 21(4), 268-284.

Miller, J., Hoffman, B., Gaughan, E., Gentile, B., Maples, J., & Keith Campbell, W. (2011). Grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: a nomological network analysis. Journal Of Personality, 79(5), 1013-1042.

Blair, C. A., Hoffman, B. J., & Helland, K. R. (2008). Narcissism in organizations: A multisource appraisal reflects different perspectives. Human Performance, 21(3), 254-276..

Hoffman, B. J., Bynum, B., Piccolo, R., & Williams, A.  (2011). Person-organization fit: How transformational leaders influence group effectiveness. Academy of Management Journal, 54, 779-796.

Hoffman, B. J., Melchers, K., Blair, C. A., Kleinmann, M., & Ladd, R. T.  (2011). Exercises and dimensions are the currency of assessment centers. Personnel Psychology, 6 (2), 351-395.

Hoffman, B. J., Woehr, D. J., Maldagen-Youngjohn, R., & Lyons, B. D. (2011). Great man or great myth? A quantitative review of the relationship between individual differences and leader effectiveness. Journal Of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, 84(2), 347-381.

Lance, C. E., Dawson, B., Birkelbach, D., & Hoffman, B. J. (2010). Method Effects, Measurement Error, and Substantive Conclusions. Organizational Research Methods, 13(3), 435-455.

Twenge, J. M., Campbell, S. M., Hoffman, B. J., & Lance, C. E. (2010). Generational Differences in Work Values: Leisure and Extrinsic Values Increasing, Social and Intrinsic Values Decreasing. Journal Of Management, 36(5), 1117-1142.

Hoffman, B. J., Lance, C., Bynum, B., & Gentry, B. (2010). Rater source effects are alive and well after all. Personnel Psychology, 63, 119-151.

Hoffman, B. J., & Woehr, D. J. (2009). Disentangling the meaning of multisource performance rating source and dimension factors. Personnel Psychology, 62(4), 735-765.

Lyons, B. D., Hoffman, B. J., & Michel, J. W. (2009). Not Much More Than g? An Examination of the Impact of Intelligence on NFL Performance. Human Performance, 22(3), 225-245.

Pryor, L., Miller, J. D., & Hoffman, B. J., & Harding, H. G. (2009). Narcissism, pathological personality traits, and externalizing behavior. Personality and Mental Health, 3, 26-40.

Suveg, C., Hoffman, B. J., & Zeman, J. (2009). Common and specific emotion-related predictors of anxious anddepressive symptoms in youths. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 40(2), 223-239.

Lance, C. E., Hoffman, B. J., Gentry, B., & Baranik, L. E. (2008). Rater source factors represent important subcomponents of the criterion construct space, not rater bias. Human Resource Management Review, 18, 223-232.

Meriac, J. P., Hoffman, B. J., Woehr, D. J., & Fleischer, M. (2008). Further evidence for the validity of assessment center dimensions: A meta-Analysis of the incremental criterion-related validity of assessment center ratings. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 1042-1052.

Miller, J. D., Hoffman, B., Campbell, W. K., & Pilkonis, P. A. (2008). An examination of the factor structure of DSM-IV Narcissistic Personality Disorder Criteria: One or two factors?Comprehensive Psychiatry, 49, 141-145.

Hoffman, B. J., Blair, C., Meriac, J., & Woehr, D. J. (2007).  Expanding the criterion domain? A meta-analysis of the OCB literature. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 555-566.