Boris Baltes

Boris Baltes

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

My major research interests include the effects of stereotypes on workplace outcomes, biases in performance appraisal, age and workplace issues as well as work-family conflict/balance.

Education

• Ph.D., I/O Psychology Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, 1998
• M.B.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1992

Awards and grants

Agency: NSF

• Title: Advance Partnership: STEM Intersectional Equity in Departments (SIEDS)
• Role: Co-PI (PI: Krista Brumley, Co-PI's: Sharon Lean, Matt
• Piszczek)
• Dates: October 2023 to October 2028
• Total funds: $1,200,000

Agency: NSF

• Title: Advance Adaption: Gender Equity Advances Retention in STEM at Wayne State University (WSU GEARS)
• Role: Lead PI (Co-PIs: Krista Brumley, Tamara Hendrickson, Lars Johnson, Keith Whitfield, Ece Yaprak, Kristina Eckert and Shirley Papuga)
• Dates: August 2020 - July 2023
• Total funds: $992,495

Agency: NSF

• Title: RAPID: Work, Family, and Social Well-Being among Couples in the Context of COVID-19
• Role: Co-PI (Co-PI: Krista Brumley, Shirin Montazer, and Kathryn Maguire)
• Dates: June 2020 - July 2021
• Total funds: $191,000

Agency: Alfred P. Sloan Center on Aging and Work

• Title: Age and Health as Moderators of the Influence of Time-Place Management Policies on Work Outcomes.
• Role: Co-PI (Co-PI: Cort Rudolph, FIU)
• Dates: January 2012 - January 2013
• Total funds: $5,000

Agency: NSF

• Title: Graduate Student Fellowship
• Role: PI (Student Supervisor)
• Dates: August 2011 - August 2014
• Total funds: $90,000

Agency: NIH

• Title: Improving Clinical System Communication to Increase Trial Offers to Cancer Patients
• Role: Co-investigator (PI: T. Albrecht)
• Dates: August 2009 – August 2011
• Total funds: $400,000

More

• Fellow of APA, Division 14
• Humboldt Research Fellowship, August 2004 – May 2005
• College of Science Teaching Award, 2002
• Wayne State University Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, 2008

Selected publications

Books

• Baltes, B.B., Rudolph, C., & Zacher, H. (Eds)., (2019). Work Across the Lifespan. Academic Press, Elsevier

Selected publications

Student authors in bold.

• Bramble, R., Duerk, E., Baltes, B. B., (2020). Finding the nuance in eldercare measurement: Latent profiles of eldercare characteristics. Journal of Business and Psychology, 35, 29-42
• Clark, M. A., Krenn, D., Early, B. J., & Baltes, B. B. (2019). Work-family behavioral role conflict scale: Scale development and validation. Journal of Business and Psychology, 34, 39-53. Paper received 2019 Editor Commendation from JBP
• Thrasher G., Zabel, K. L., Bramble, R., & Baltes, B. B. (2017). Who is aging successfully at work? A latent profile analysis of successful agers and their work motives. Work, Aging, and Retirement, 4, 175-188
• Zabel, K. L., Biermeier-Hanson, B., Baltes, B, B., Early, B.J., Shepard, A. (2017). Generational Differences in Work Ethic: Fact or Fiction? Journal of Business and Psychology, 32, 301-315
• Rudolph, C. W., & Baltes, B. B. (2017). Age and Health Jointly Moderate the Influence of Flexible Work Arrangements on Work Engagement: Evidence from Two Empirical Studies. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
• Thrasher, G., Zabel, K., Wynne, K., & Baltes, B. (2016). The Importance of Workplace Motives in Understanding Work-Family Issues for Older Workers. Work, Aging and Retirement, 2, 1-11
• Thrasher, G., Bramble, R., Baltes, B. B. (2016). Job Performance and Job Attitudes in Later Life: The Role of Motives. In R. Burke, C. Cooper & A. Antoniou (Eds.). The Aging Workforce: Individual, Organizational and Societal Challenges. Emerald Publishing. United Kingdom
• Thrasher, G., Zabel, K., Baltes, B. B. (2015). Resiliency at Work for Older Employees. In R. Burke, C. Cooper & A. Antoniou (Eds.). The Multigenerational Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities for Organizations. Edward Elgar, United Kingdom
• Baltes, B. B., Wynne, K.. T., Sirabian, M. A., Krenn, D. R., & de Lange, A. H. (2014). Future time perspective, regulatory focus, and selection, optimization, and compensation: Testing a longitudinal model. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 34, 1120-1133
• Rudolph, C. W., & Baltes, B. B., (2013). Mitigating the impact of stereotypes is more practical than holding people accountable for them. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 6, 423-429
• Nieminen, L.R.G., Rudolph, C.W., Baltes, B.B., Casper, C., Wynne, K.T., Kirby, L.C. (2013). The combined effects of contextual information and ratee bodyweight on performance judgments. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 527-543
• Rudolph, C. W, Baltes, B. B., Zhdanova, L. S., Clark, M. A., Bal, A. C. (2012) Testing the structured free recall intervention for reducing the impact of bodyweight-based stereotypes on performance ratings in immediate and delayed contexts, Journal of Business and Psychology, 27, 205-222
• Bal, A.B., Reiss, A.E.B., Rudolph, C.W., & Baltes, B.B. (2011). Examining positive and negative perceptions of older workers: A meta- analysis. The Journal of Gerontology: Series B - Psychological Sciences, 66B, 687-698
• Baltes, B. B., Zhdanova, L. S., Clark, M. A. (2011). Examining the relationships between personality, coping strategies, and work–family conflict. Journal of Business and Psychology, 4, 517-530
• Baltes, B. B., Bauer, C. B., & Frensch. P. (2007). Does a Structured Free Recall Intervention Reduce The Effect of Stereotypes on Performance Ratings and by What Cognitive Mechanism? Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 151-164
• Baltes, B. B., & Heydens-Gahir, H.A., (2003). Reduction of Work-Family Conflict Through the Use of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation Behaviors. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 1005-1018

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