Ray Cooksey
Prof, Faculty of The Professions, School of Business Economics and Public Policy
Qualifications
MSc, PhD (ColoState)
Contact
| Email: | rcooksey@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W042 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2563 (or +61 2 6773 2563 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3148 |
Ray holds a PhD in Psychology and works primarily in the organisational behaviour and managerial decision making areas. He has held positions in three of the four Faculties at UNE over the past 20 years: Education, Arts (Psychology) and now EBL - a diverse set of experiences that informs both his teaching and research. His specific teaching areas include managerial thinking and decision making, organisational behaviour, quantitative and qualitative research methods. His research is focused mainly in the areas of decision making and cognition, chaos and complexity theory organisational and behavioural systems theory, cause mapping and multivariate statistics. However, Ray has also worked on more diverse research projects such as multivariate analyses of criminal psychological profiling data and analysing teacher judgments when making student assessments. He has consulted with several Australian and US-based industries and government departments in areas such as ergonomics, performance measurement, survey design and analysis, and change management. Ray has published two books (an international book with Academic Press entitled Judgment Analysis: Theory Methods and Applications and a locally-published book entitled Statistics for Behavioural and Social Research: A Descriptive Handbook ), 9 book chapters and over 40 articles in national and international refereed journals.
He has supervised a number of PhDs, masters and honours students over the years in areas such as: leadership, data mining methods, community attitudes toward police, organisational commitment and culture, complexity perspectives on organisational processes, brand equity models, organisational decision making, vocational interests, hazard perceptions on forms, chaos models of work performance, e-commerce strategies in small business, and women in management.
Affiliations
Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM; former President 2003), US Academy of Management (AOM), International Federation of Scholarly Academics of Management (IFSAM), System Dynamics Society, The Brunswik Society, Society for Judgement and Decision Making and Decision Sciences Institute.
Publications
Publications
Books
Cooksey, R.W. (2007). Illustrating statistical procedures: For business, behavioural and social science research. Prahan, Victoria: Tilde University Press.
Cooksey, R.W. (1996). Judgment analysis: Theory, methods, and applications. San Diego: Academic Press, Inc.
Book Chapters
Cooksey, R.W. (2001). Brunswik’s ‘Conceptual Framework for Psychology’: Then and now. In K.R. Hammond & T.R. Stewart (Eds.), The essential Brunswik: Beginnings, explications, applications. New York: Oxford University Press, 225-237.
Cooksey, R.W. (2001). The emergence of psychology as a unique science. In K.R. Hammond & T.R. Stewart (Eds.), The essential Brunswik: Beginnings, explications, applications. New York: Oxford University Press, 283-286.
Cooksey, R.W. (2001). On Gibson’s Review of Brunswik and Kirlik’s Reviews of Gibson. In K.R. Hammond & T.R. Stewart (Eds.), The essential Brunswik: Beginnings, explications, applications. New York: Oxford University Press, 242-244.
Bruins, H.H. & Cooksey, R.W. (2001). JANNET: A neural network approach to judgment analysis. In H. H. Bruins (Ed.), Preradiation dental decisions in patients with head and neck cancer. Wageningen, Netherlands: Ponsen & Looijen bv, 53-67.
Cooksey, R.W. (2000). Managerial judgment and decision making. In S.B Dahiya (Ed.), The current state of business disciplines: Volume 5 – Management II. Rohtak, India: Spellbound Publications, 2121-2158.
Cooksey, R.W. (1999). Adult judgment and decision making. In J.A. Athanasou (Ed.), Adult educational psychology. Katoomba, NSW: Social Science Press, 409-437.
Cooksey, R.W. (1993). Psychometric characteristics of the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Scales: Observations and commentary. In P. Freebody, J. Cumming, I. Falk, S. Muspratt, S. Doyle, J. Flaherty, & N. Lee (Eds.), A trialling and evaluation of the Adult Literacy and Numeracy (ALAN) scales: Volume 2: Commissioned papers, 29-39.
Cooksey, R.W. (1988). Social judgment theory in education: Current and potential applications [Chapter 9]. In B. Brehmer & C.R.B. Joyce (Eds.), Human Judgment: The SJT View. Amsterdam: North-Holland Elsevier, 273-315.
Cooksey, R.W., Freebody, P., & Davidson, G.R. (1986). Social judgment theory: Teacher expectations concerning children's early reading potential [Chapter 32]. In H.R. Arkes & K.R. Hammond (Eds.), Introduction to judgment and decision making: An interdisciplinary reader. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 523-546.
Invited Refereed Articles
Gates, G.R., & Cooksey, R.W. (1996). Karpin and Hilmer: Classic cases of ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time’. Small Enterprise Research, 4, 7-16.
Cooksey, R.W. (1996). The methodology of social judgement theory. Thinking & Reasoning, 2, 141-173 [Special issue on Social Judgement Theory; guest editor: Professor Michael E. Doherty, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio].
Cooksey, R.W. & Gates, G.R. (1995). HRM: A management science in need of discipline. Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 33, 15-38. Reprinted with minor changes and extensions and with the permission of the Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management.
Invited Refereed Papers for Special Journal Issues
Cooksey, R.W. (2001). Commentary: Pursuing an integrated decision science: Does ‘Naturalistic Decision Making’ help or hinder? Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 14, 361-362.
Cooksey, R.W. (2001). What is Complexity Science? A contextually-grounded tapestry of systemic dynamism, paradigm diversity, theoretical eclecticism, and organizational learning. Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management, 3, 77-103.
Articles in Refereed Journals
Hine, D.W., Gifford, R., Heath, Y. Cooksey, R.W., & Quain, P. (in press). A cue utilization approach for investigating harvest decisions in commons dilemmas. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.Cooksey, R.W., Freebody, P., & Wyatt-Smith, C. (2007). Assessment as judgment-in-context: Analyzing how teachers evaluate students’ writing. Educational Research and Evaluation, 13(5), 401-434.
Pappu, R., Quester, P, & Cooksey, R. (2007). Country image and consumer-based brand equity: Relationships and implications for international marketing. Journal of International Business Studies, 38, 726-745.
Pappu, R., Quester, P, & Cooksey, R. (2006). Consumer-based brand equity and country-of-origin relationships: Some empirical evidence. European Journal of Marketing, 15(5/6), 696-717.
Cooksey, R.W. & Soutar, G.N. (2006). Coefficient beta and hierarchical item clustering: An analytical procedure for establishing and displaying the dimensionality and homogeneity of summated scales. Organizational Research Methods, 9(1), 78-98. (Erratum published in subsequent issue: Organizational Research Methods, 9(2), p.252).
Pappu, R., Quester, P, & Cooksey, R. (2005). Consumer-based brand equity: Improving the measurement - empirical evidence. Journal of Product and Brand Management, 14(3), 143-154.
Hine, D. W., Montiel, C. J., Cooksey, R., & Lewko, J. (2005). Mental models of poverty in developing nations: A Canada-Philippines contrast. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 36(3), 283-303.
Hunter, J., & Cooksey, R. (2004). The decision to outsource: A case study of the complex interplay between strategic wisdom and behavioural reality. Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, 10(2), 26-40.
Cooksey, R.W. (2003). ‘Learnership’ in complex organisational textures. The Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 24(4), 204-214.
Wyatt-Smith, C., Castleton, G., Freebody, P., & Cooksey, R.W. (2003). The nature of teachers’ qualitative judgements: A matter of context and salience. Part One: ‘In-context’ judgement. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 26(2), 11-32.
Wyatt-Smith, C., Castleton, G., Cooksey, R.W., & Freebody, P. (2003). The nature of teachers’ qualitative judgements: A matter of context and salience. Part Two: Out-of-context judgements. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 26(2), 33-42.
Kocsis, R.N., & Cooksey, R.W. (2002). Criminal psychological profiling of serial arson crimes. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 46(6), 631-656.
Kocsis, R.N., Cooksey, R.W., & Irwin, H.J. (2002). Psychological profiling of sexual murders: An empirical model. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 46(5), 532-554.
Kocsis, R.N., Cooksey, R.W., & Irwin, H.J. (2002). Psychological profiling of offender characteristics from crime behaviors in serial rape offences. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 46 (2), 144-169.
Kocsis, R.N., Cooksey, R.W., Irwin, H.J., & Allen, G. (2002). A further empirical assessment of the ‘Circle Theory’ for geographic psychological profiling. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 35(1), 43-62.
Athanasou, J.A., & Cooksey, R.W. (2001). Judgment of factors influencing interest: An Australian study. Journal of Vocational Education Research, 26, 77-96.
Finlay, J.P., & Cooksey, R.W. (2001). Complexity at work: Demonstration of a nonlinear dynamic systems approach to work performance. International Journal of Management Literature, 1(1), 15-31.
Cooksey, R.W. (2000). Mapping the texture of managerial decision making: A complex dynamic decision perspective. Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management, 2,102-122.
Cooksey, R.W. (2000). Commentary on ‘Cognitive adaptation and its consequences: A test of Cognitive Continuum Theory’. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 13, 55-59.
Sandall, J.L, Cooksey, R.W., Reeve, I., & Kaine, G.W. (1999). Australian farmers’ perceptions of farm health and safety hazards. Journal of Occupational Health & Safety - Australia and New Zealand, 15, 449-464.
Cooksey, R.W., Gates, G.R. & Pollock, H. (1998). ‘Unsafe’ business acts and outcomes: A management lexicon. Business Horizons, May-June, 41-49.
Gates, G.R., & Cooksey, R.W. (1998). Learning to manage and managing to learn. Journal of Workplace Learning, 10, 5-14 [published article earned a Highly Commended Award in 1999 from the Literati Club of the MCB University Press, which publishes this journal].
Cooksey, R.W. & Gates, G.R. (1995). HRM: A management science in need of discipline. Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, 1, 1-16.
Athanasou, J.A. & Cooksey, R.W. (1994). Ability of high school students to estimate vocational interests: Some influences of demographic factors and context. Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 11, 25-31.
Cooksey, R.W., & Athanasou, J.A. (1994). Assessing differences in accuracy of self-estimates of vocational interests: An idiographic analysis using profile decomposition. Australian Journal of Psychology, 46, 112-117.
Athanasou, J.A., & Cooksey, R.W. (1993). Self-estimates of vocational interests. Australian Psychologist, 28, 118-127.
Athanasou, J. A., & Cooksey, R.W. (1993). Influence of personality and other individual difference factors on high school student ability to estimate their levels of vocational interests: Preliminary study. Personality and Individual Differences, 14, 421-428.
Cooksey, R.W. (1993). The problem of multidimensionality in course scores and course choices in the production of a single year 12 tertiary entrance score. Australian Journal of Education, 37, 26-45.
Athanasou, J. A., & Cooksey, R.W. (1992). Using self-estimates of interests in counselling: A review of idiographic studies. Australian Counselling Psychologist, 2, 34-43.
Athanasou, J.A., & Cooksey, R.W. (1991). Convergent validity of self-estimates of interests for high school pupils: A multitrait - multimethod analysis. Psychological Test Bulletin, 4, 78-91.
Cooksey, R.W., Freebody, P., & Bennett, A.J. (1990). The ecology of spelling: A lens model analysis of spelling errors and student judgments of spelling difficulty. Reading Psychology: An International Quarterly, 11, 293-322.
Cooksey, R.W., & Freebody, P. (1987). Aspects of a computer-managed test of children's reading vocabulary: Reliability, validity, and characterization of knowledge. Reading Psychology: An International Quarterly, 8, 103-119.
Cooksey, R.W., & Freebody, P. (1987). Cue subset contributions in the hierarchical multivariate lens model: Judgments of children's reading achievement. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 39, 115-132.
Cooksey, R.W., & Freebody, P. (1986). Social judgment theory and cognitive feedback: A general model for analyzing educational policies and decisions. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 8, 17-29.
Cooksey, R.W., Freebody, P., & Davidson, G.R. (1986). Teacher's predictions of children's early reading achievement: An application of social judgment theory. American Educational Research Journal, 23, 41-64.
Freebody, P., Cooksey, R.W., & Connor, P.J. (1986). Strategies for distributing time when studying text: An exploratory cluster analytic approach. Discourse Processes, 9, 355-374.
Cooksey, R.W., & Freebody, P. (1985). Generalized multivariate lens model analysis for complex human inference tasks. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 35, 46-72.
Freebody, P., & Cooksey, R.W. (1985). Computer assessment of vocabulary knowledge: A preliminary study of the relationships between knowledge, word frequency, and response time. Reading Psychology: An International Quarterly, 6, 157-168.
Hattie, J.A., & Cooksey, R.W. (1984). Procedures for assessing the validity of tests using the "known groups" method. Applied Psychological Measurement, 8, 295-305.
Cooksey, R.W., & Freebody, P. (1983). Judgements, policies, and decisions about the teaching of reading: New directions for research. Reading Education, 8, 42-50. [Reprinted in the William S. Gray Research Collection, A.T. Burrows Institute, Manhassett, NY, 1984.]
Cooksey, R.W., Loomis, R.J., & Dickinson, T.L. (1982). Predicting preferences for recreational environments: Theoretical considerations and a comparison of models. Leisure Sciences, 5, 19-34.
Cooksey, R.W., & Bell, P.A. (1982). The joint contribution of trait similarity and trait favorability in interpersonal attraction. JSAS Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology, 12, 44. [MS 2501].
Dickinson, T.L., & Cooksey, R.W. (1981). MCPL: A program for describing performance in multiple-cue probability learning. Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation, 13, 60.
Cooksey, R.W. (1979). POSTHOC: A FORTRAN program for conducting posthoc multiple comparisons among means. Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation, 11, 601.
Cooksey, R.W. (1978). SCALE: A FORTRAN program for reliability analysis on scales formed by linear combinations of variables. Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation, 10, 735.
Book Sections Translated
Large portions of Chapter 1, Chapter 8, and Appendix B of Cooksey (1996) [Judgment analysis: Theory, methods, and applications. San Diego: Academic Press, Inc.] have been translated as Chapter 5, Appendix 2, and Appendix 5, respectively, by Kostron, L. (1997). Psychologie vytvárení úsudku. Brno, Czech Republic: Masarykova Univerzita v Brne, pp. 101-122; 137-150; 157-169.
Technical and Consultant Reports for Research and Government Grants
Lyons, T. & Cooksey, R.W. (2007). The needs of primary teachers and secondary teachers of science, ICT and mathematics in New South Wales schools: A disaggregation of data from the SiMERR National Survey. National Centre of Science, ICT and Mathematics Education for Rural and Regional Australia, University of New England. [confidential report prepared for and funded by the NSW Department of Education and Training; MS pp. 66].
Lyons, T., Cooksey, R.W., Panizzon, D., Parnell, A. & Pegg, J. (2006). Science, ICT and Mathematics Education in Rural and Regional Australia: The SiMERR National Survey. National Centre of Science, ICT and Mathematics Education for Rural and Regional Australia, University of New England. [a research report prepared for and funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST); MS pp. 209] [An abridged report of the findings, by the same authors, was also published in 2006; MS pp. 62].
Cooksey, R.W. (November, 2005). Report on Analyses of the SiMERR National Education Surveys. Consultant’s Research Report to SiMERR, University of New England. [MS 165 pp].
Sandall, J., Kaine, G., & Cooksey, R.W. (2001). More than a matter of taste: Social values and the appeal of native vegetation in agricultural landscapes. Research monograph, Land and Water Australia.
Cooksey, R.W. (July, 1996). Review of the ‘Expert Panel’ process as a mechanism for determining environmental flows. Consultant’s report to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority, Cooma, NSW. [MS 11 pp].
Cooksey, R.W. (December, 1992). Psychometric characteristics of the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Scales: Observations and commentary. Consultant's Report to the Steering Committee on the DEET Project entitled 'Trialling and development of the Adult Literacy and Numeracy (ALAN) Scales', Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland. [MS 10 pp].
Cooksey, R.W. (February, 1990). Multidimensionality in course scores and course choices in the ACT. Report on Project 2 to the ACT Schools Authority, Grant # 80-153-646. [MS 41 pp].
Cooksey, R.W. (December, 1989). Exploring the existence of bias in tertiary entrance scores: Definitions, measurement, and control procedures. Final Report on Project 1 to the ACT Schools Authority, Grant # 80-153-646. [MS 42 pp].
Shaddock, A.J., & Cooksey, R.W. (October, 1989). Mirambeena Parents' Views on Integration for their Child. Report to the Mirambeena P & C Association, Armidale, NSW.
Freebody, P., Davidson, G.R., & Cooksey, R.W. (1987). The relative effects of demographic, cognitive, and metacognitive variables as predictors of early reading achievement: An application of path analysis. Report to ARGS on project entitled "The Separate Worlds of Learning: A Cross-cultural Study of Executive Knowledge and Functions in Children and Intending Teachers". (MS 20 pp].
Cooksey, R.W. (January, 1986). General recommendations for experimental designs and procedures used in space operation task evaluation studies. Consultant's Report to the Martin-Marietta Aerospace Corporation, Contract # RH5-394271, Denver, Colorado. [MS 42 pp].
Hartley, C.S., Cooksey, R.W., & Krois, P. (August, 1982). Operator's compartments for underground continuous miners (with supporting Rationale Document). SAE Recommended Practice for the Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc., Contract # USBM-H0308110, The Bendix Corporation (BEET Office), Englewood, Colorado. [MS 253 pp].
Fazio, C.P., Cooksey, R.W., Hartley, C.S., & O'Neil, F. (August, 1982). Motor vehicle operator fuel conservation feedback devices. Final Technical Report to the U.S. Department of Energy, Contract # DE-AC08-81CS50152, The Bendix Corporation (BEET Office), Englewood, Colorado. [MS 143 pp].
Cooksey, R.W. (July, 1982) Polyurethane injection for roof/face consolidation versus conventional roof support methods: Preliminary comparisons. Interim Technical Report to U.S. Bureau of Mines, Contract # USBM-J0308104, The Bendix Corporation (BEET Office), Englewood, Colorado. [MS 24 pp].
Hartley, C.S., Cooksey, R.W., & Krois, P. (March, 1982). Operator's compartments for underground scoops and ramcars (with supporting Rationale Document). SAE Recommended Practice for the Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc., Contract # USBM-H0308110, The Bendix Corporation (BEET Office), Englewood, Colorado. [MS 229 pp].
Hartley, C.S., & Cooksey, R.W. (March, 1982). Low-seam continuous miner controlled from a remotely positioned operator's station (Vol. II). Final Technical Report to U.S. Bureau of Mines, Contract # USBM-J0308038, The Bendix Corporation (BEET Office), Englewood, Colorado. [MS 104 pp]
Cooksey, R.W. (July, 1981). Driver feedback device evaluation experiments. Topical Report to U.S. Department of Energy, Contract # DE-AC08-81CS50152, The Bendix Corporation (BEET Office), Englewood, Colorado. [MS 70 pp].
Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings
Cooksey, R.W. (December, 2006). Evaluating research quality: Meta-criteria for management and organisational research. CD-ROM Electronic Proceedings of the 2006 Annual December Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Yeppoon, QLD.
Cooksey, R.W. (December, 2004). Interim analyses of commendations and recommendations in Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) audit reports. CD-ROM Electronic Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Hunter, J.D., & Cooksey, R.W. (December, 2003). Discovering strategic lessons for ‘surfing’ the outsourcing wave and avoiding the ‘wipe-outs’. CD-ROM Electronic Proceedings of the 2003 Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Fremantle, Western Australia.
Soutar, G, & Cooksey, R.W. (December, 2002). Coefficient Beta, Item Clustering and the Homogeneity of Summated Scales. CD-ROM Electronic Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Beechworth, Victoria.
Cooksey, R.W. (December, 2001). ‘Learnership’: Leadership and learning within the complex texture of organisational life. CD-ROM Electronic Proceedings of the 2001 Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Auckland, New Zealand.
Cooksey, R.W. (December, 1998). The complex dynamic texture of managerial decision making. CD-ROM Electronic Proceedings of the 1998 Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Adelaide, South Australia.
Graco, W.J., & Cooksey, R.W. (April, 1998). Feature selection with data mining. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference and Exhibition on the Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, London: The Practical Application Company, 111-130.
Graco, W.J., Boland, M.S., & Cooksey, R.W. (April, 1997). Use of a multi-stage discovery-learning algorithm to detect practice types in medical general practice (GP) data. In Proceedings of the First International Conference and Exhibition on the Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, London: The Practical Application Company, 137-156.
Cooksey, R.W. (December, 1994). Decision making and conflict resolution: Experiential learning using role play and a decision support system. Proceedings of the 3rd International Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Dunedin, NZ, 20-22.
Cooksey, R.W. (November, 1983). Social judgment theory and policy analysis: A cognitive aid for educational policymakers. In Educational Research for National Development: Policy, Planning, and Politics. National Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 98-105.
Freebody, P., & Cooksey, R.W. (November, 1983). Measuring vocabulary knowledge: Relationships between knowledge, word frequency, and response time. In Educational Research for National Development: Policy, Planning, and Politics. National Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 122-130.
Cooksey, R.W., Hartley, C.S., & Burks, J.A. (October, 1982). Predictive relationships for cab dimensioning in low-coal mining machines. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society, Seattle, Washington, 384-388.
Hartley, C.S., Cooksey, R.W., & Kwitowski, A.J. (October, 1982). An anthropometrically adjustable seat for low-seam mining applications. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society, Seattle, Washington, 389-393.
Fazio, C.P., & Cooksey, R.W. (October, 1981). A feedback device to promote automotive fuel conservation. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society, Rochester, NY, 716-720.
Driver, B.L., & Cooksey, R.W. (September, 1980). Preferred psychological outcomes of recreational fishing. In Proceedings of the National Sport Symposium on Catch-and-Release Fishing as a Management Tool, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, 27-40.