Margaret E Beier
Biographic Data
| ID | 1661327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret E Beier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret E |
| FAMILY NAME | Beier |
| SIGNATURE | BEIER M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5761-5610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Are We Helping Workers Reskill for the Future of Work? Using AI to Explore the Alignment of Online Course Offerings and Job Skill Requirements
Millions of workers and job seekers turn to online platforms to gain work-relevant skills to remain competitive for the future of work. However, little is known about whether the skills acquired in work-relevant online courses align with the skills required for 21st-century jobs. Drawing on literature on job and skill matching, this exploratory study examines the alignment between available online training and learning content and the skills dema…
Trajectories of attitudes, threat appraisal, and self-efficacy during ineffective enterprise resource planning technology implementations at work
What is the psychological impact on employees when they experience a flawed integration of a new technology meant to support their jobs? Grounded in research on enterprise resource planning system implementation and event systems theory, we examined trajectories of attitudes, threat appraisal, and self-efficacy in a one-year longitudinal study during an ineffective technology system implementation. Among heavy end-users, attitudes towards system …
Aging, Work, and Retirement
Demographic shifts in population aging and disruption caused by technology and automation are rapidly changing the landscape of work across the globe. The current review provides a focused, forward-looking perspective on key issues relevant to workplace aging and new realities of the workplace, namely workplace learning and development, an age-diverse workforce, and retirement. Our review provides a multilevel perspective on these issues, includi…
Aging and Burnout for Nurses in an Acute Care Setting
We examined the relationship between age, coping, and burnout during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic with nurses in Texas (N = 376). Nurses were recruited through a professional association and snowball sampling methodology for the cross-sectional survey study. Framed in lifespan development theories, we expected that nurse age and experience would be positively correlated with positive coping strategies (e.g., getting emotional support from ot…
Small” Effects, Big Problems
Murphy and DeNisi (2021) call on researchers to “examine the cumulative effects of biases in the evaluations of and decisions regarding older workers,” acknowledging that “even if age differences at any one point in time (e.g., this year’s salary raise) are small, consistent differences in the treatment of older vs. younger workers could lead to large cumulative effects” (Murphy and DeNisi, 2021, p. 4). In this commentary, we aim to (a) probe wha…
The college-to-career transition in STEM
Personality, health, wealth, and subjective well-being
Multiple routes to mind wandering
Successful Aging at Work
The workforce is aging in most developed and many developing countries, and there is a need to further extend and improve older employees’ working lives. Organizational scientists and practitioners, therefore, have become more and more interested in the topic of successful aging at work. Over the past few years, scholars have introduced theoretical frameworks that help distinguish successful from unsuccessful aging at work and that explain how wo…
Successful Motivational Aging at Work
The current study integrates ideas from the successful aging at work paradigm with theory and research on retirement motivation with a sample of midlife workers (N = 397; Mage = 52.34; SD = 5.87) over a 16 month period. We conceptualized successful motivational aging at work as a typology of successful, usual, and unsuccessful motivational aging at work and provide empirical support for the validity of this typology. Motivation to work was define…
Activities Matter
Remaining active throughout the lifespan is central to healthy aging. The current study tests a model derived from investment and resource theories that examines the extent to which activities mediate the relationship between individual differences in personality and resources on mental and physical well-being and retirement expectations. A subsample (N = 400; 58% women) of participants from the nationally representative Health and Retirement Stu…
Mind-wandering, cognition, and performance
An assessment of the fakeability of self-report and implicit personality measures
The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
This book was the first handbook where the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' reviewed our scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent. Methods are described for the study of experts' knowledge and their performance of representative tasks from their domain of expertise. The development of …
Working Memory and Intelligence
Working Memory and Intelligence
Several investigators have claimed over the past decade that working memory (WM) and general intelligence (g) are identical, or nearly identical, constructs, from an individual-differences perspective. Although memory measures are commonly included in intelligence tests, and memory abilities are included in theories of intelligence, the identity between WM and intelligence has not been evaluated comprehensively. The authors conducted a meta-analy…
Determinants of health knowledge
Ten areas of health knowledge were investigated in 2 studies, 1 of college students (N = 169) and 1 of adults from the community (ages 19-70; N = 176). Measures assessed knowledge of aging, orthopedic/dermatological concerns, common illnesses, childhood/early life, serious illnesses, mental health, nutrition, reproduction, safety, and treatment of illness/disease. Significant gender differences favoring women were found for most areas of health k…
Working Memory and Intelligence
Several investigators have claimed over the past decade that working memory (WM) and general intelligence (g) are identical, or nearly identical, constructs, from an individual-differences perspective. Although memory measures are commonly included in intelligence tests, and memory abilities are included in theories of intelligence, the identity between WM and intelligence has not been evaluated comprehensively. The authors conducted a meta-analy…
Mind-wandering, cognition, and performance
Determinants of health knowledge
Ten areas of health knowledge were investigated in 2 studies, 1 of college students (N = 169) and 1 of adults from the community (ages 19-70; N = 176). Measures assessed knowledge of aging, orthopedic/dermatological concerns, common illnesses, childhood/early life, serious illnesses, mental health, nutrition, reproduction, safety, and treatment of illness/disease. Significant gender differences favoring women were found for most areas of health k…
An assessment of the fakeability of self-report and implicit personality measures
Personality, health, wealth, and subjective well-being
Successful Aging at Work
The workforce is aging in most developed and many developing countries, and there is a need to further extend and improve older employees’ working lives. Organizational scientists and practitioners, therefore, have become more and more interested in the topic of successful aging at work. Over the past few years, scholars have introduced theoretical frameworks that help distinguish successful from unsuccessful aging at work and that explain how wo…
Successful Motivational Aging at Work
The current study integrates ideas from the successful aging at work paradigm with theory and research on retirement motivation with a sample of midlife workers (N = 397; Mage = 52.34; SD = 5.87) over a 16 month period. We conceptualized successful motivational aging at work as a typology of successful, usual, and unsuccessful motivational aging at work and provide empirical support for the validity of this typology. Motivation to work was define…
Working Memory and Intelligence
Determinants of health knowledge
Ten areas of health knowledge were investigated in 2 studies, 1 of college students (N = 169) and 1 of adults from the community (ages 19-70; N = 176). Measures assessed knowledge of aging, orthopedic/dermatological concerns, common illnesses, childhood/early life, serious illnesses, mental health, nutrition, reproduction, safety, and treatment of illness/disease. Significant gender differences favoring women were found for most areas of health k…
Working Memory and Intelligence
Working Memory and Intelligence
Several investigators have claimed over the past decade that working memory (WM) and general intelligence (g) are identical, or nearly identical, constructs, from an individual-differences perspective. Although memory measures are commonly included in intelligence tests, and memory abilities are included in theories of intelligence, the identity between WM and intelligence has not been evaluated comprehensively. The authors conducted a meta-analy…
The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
This book was the first handbook where the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' reviewed our scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent. Methods are described for the study of experts' knowledge and their performance of representative tasks from their domain of expertise. The development of …
An assessment of the fakeability of self-report and implicit personality measures
Mind-wandering, cognition, and performance
Activities Matter
Remaining active throughout the lifespan is central to healthy aging. The current study tests a model derived from investment and resource theories that examines the extent to which activities mediate the relationship between individual differences in personality and resources on mental and physical well-being and retirement expectations. A subsample (N = 400; 58% women) of participants from the nationally representative Health and Retirement Stu…
Successful Motivational Aging at Work
The current study integrates ideas from the successful aging at work paradigm with theory and research on retirement motivation with a sample of midlife workers (N = 397; Mage = 52.34; SD = 5.87) over a 16 month period. We conceptualized successful motivational aging at work as a typology of successful, usual, and unsuccessful motivational aging at work and provide empirical support for the validity of this typology. Motivation to work was define…
Multiple routes to mind wandering
Successful Aging at Work
The workforce is aging in most developed and many developing countries, and there is a need to further extend and improve older employees’ working lives. Organizational scientists and practitioners, therefore, have become more and more interested in the topic of successful aging at work. Over the past few years, scholars have introduced theoretical frameworks that help distinguish successful from unsuccessful aging at work and that explain how wo…
The college-to-career transition in STEM
Personality, health, wealth, and subjective well-being
Small” Effects, Big Problems
Murphy and DeNisi (2021) call on researchers to “examine the cumulative effects of biases in the evaluations of and decisions regarding older workers,” acknowledging that “even if age differences at any one point in time (e.g., this year’s salary raise) are small, consistent differences in the treatment of older vs. younger workers could lead to large cumulative effects” (Murphy and DeNisi, 2021, p. 4). In this commentary, we aim to (a) probe wha…
Aging and Burnout for Nurses in an Acute Care Setting
We examined the relationship between age, coping, and burnout during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic with nurses in Texas (N = 376). Nurses were recruited through a professional association and snowball sampling methodology for the cross-sectional survey study. Framed in lifespan development theories, we expected that nurse age and experience would be positively correlated with positive coping strategies (e.g., getting emotional support from ot…
Aging, Work, and Retirement
Demographic shifts in population aging and disruption caused by technology and automation are rapidly changing the landscape of work across the globe. The current review provides a focused, forward-looking perspective on key issues relevant to workplace aging and new realities of the workplace, namely workplace learning and development, an age-diverse workforce, and retirement. Our review provides a multilevel perspective on these issues, includi…
Are We Helping Workers Reskill for the Future of Work? Using AI to Explore the Alignment of Online Course Offerings and Job Skill Requirements
Millions of workers and job seekers turn to online platforms to gain work-relevant skills to remain competitive for the future of work. However, little is known about whether the skills acquired in work-relevant online courses align with the skills required for 21st-century jobs. Drawing on literature on job and skill matching, this exploratory study examines the alignment between available online training and learning content and the skills dema…
Trajectories of attitudes, threat appraisal, and self-efficacy during ineffective enterprise resource planning technology implementations at work
What is the psychological impact on employees when they experience a flawed integration of a new technology meant to support their jobs? Grounded in research on enterprise resource planning system implementation and event systems theory, we examined trajectories of attitudes, threat appraisal, and self-efficacy in a one-year longitudinal study during an ineffective technology system implementation. Among heavy end-users, attitudes towards system …
Psychology (14 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (6 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Big Five personality traits (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Personality (4 works)