In the Eye of the Beholder: A Reply to Ilgen and Moore

Abstract

In this article the authors reply to criticism levied at a paper they published. They note that the main issues that the criticism focused on were the reliability of their Women as Managers Scale and the appropriateness of using principal components analysis to investigate dimensonality. The authors defend their paper and draw the conclusions that while the publishing of critical papers serve a valid purpose in maintaining the credibility of research, the paper levied at them failed to reveal any clear flaws.