Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between supervisor job experience
and ratings of the importance of eight skill components for performing
subordinates’ jobs. When examining these correlations, statistical control was
utilized to ensure that supervisor and subordinate characteristics confounded
with supervisor job experience were not affecting hypothesized relationships. As
predicted, there were statistically significant positive correlations between supervisor
job experience and ratings on 6 of the 8 components. Also as predicted,
controlling for the characteristics confounded with supervisor job experience
made a substantial difference in results; 13 of the 16 correlations using statistical
control significantly differed from correlations that did not. This illustrates
that future research on SME characteristics should consider controlling variables
confounded with the focal characteristic(s) under study in order to more
thoroughly understand characteristic–rating relationships. Implications of these
findings for research and practice are discussed and suggestions for future research
are offered.
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