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Dr. Mark Frame Accepts ASTD Award in Orlando, FL.

The following information first appeared
in this ASTD news release.

Read more about Dr. Frame and this award
in the UTA Shorthorn.

The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) presented Dr. Mark C. Frame with the Dissertation Award at the International Conference & Exposition in Orlando, Florida. This ASTD award recognizes outstanding dissertations that hold major implications for practitioners of workplace learning and performance.

Dr. Frame’s dissertation, entitled “Self and Direct Report Performance Ratings at the Executive Level: The Impact of Gender on Performance Ratings and Potential Career Related Outcomes,” focuses on the impact that an executive’s gender has on self-ratings, subordinate ratings, their agreement, and the consequences associated with multi-source, multi-rater performance ratings. Frame's dissertation was completed at the Illinois Institute of Technology under the guidance of Dr. Roya Ayman.

The study found that the self-ratings of women executives were not significantly different from executive men. The averaged direct reports’ ratings of women in the study were significantly higher than they were for the men executives. The relationship between performance ratings, rating agreement, and three outcome variables were also examined.

This study sheds light on some practical issues that should be considered by organizations and those involved with the development and training of executives. First and foremost, any assumptions regarding executives, their behaviors, the way
they are perceived, and their performance ratings that are based upon lower level managers, may be erroneous. Secondly, when developing coaching plans, succession plans, or development plans for executives, a realistic discussion of the salience
of women in the executive ranks should be included.

Frame’s study also discusses some possible causes of the slower progression of women into executive positions as well as the subtle and difficult-to-pinpoint nature of these causes. It concludes with a discussion of processes that might lead to the
increased promotion and selection of executive women and the inclusion of more women in executive succession plans.

Link to presentation: FrameASTDM319May2005.pdf

About Dr. Mark Frame
Frame is an assistant professor of psychology and director of the Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology Graduate Program at The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas. For more information on ASTD’s Awards program please visit http://www.astd.org/astd
/about_ASTD/awards/awards_new.
 

About ASTD
ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) is the world's largest association dedicated to workplace learning and performance professionals. ASTD's 70,000 members and associates come from more than 100 countries and thousands of organizations - multinational corporations, medium-sized and small businesses, government, academia, consulting firms, and product and service suppliers.

ASTD marks its beginning in 1944 when the organization held its first annual conference. In recent years, ASTD has widened the industry's focus to connect learning and performance to measurable results, and is a sought-after voice on critical public policy issues. For more information, visit www.astd.org.

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