Human capital management and I-O psychology do not usually appear in popular culture. So, when familiar issues do appear, I enjoy highlighting them (I may be the only person whose written about Parks and Rec, SNL, and Star Wars in…
Two new focal articles for an upcoming issue of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, have just been released. Regulating Rude: Tensions Between Free Speech and Civility in Academic Employment, Lilia M. Cortina, Michael G. Cortina, & José M….
Tech entrepreneur Patrick Collison and economist Tyler Cowen think we need a new academic discipline focused on progress: Progress itself is understudied. By “progress,” we mean the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational advancement that has transformed our…
For about twenty years, North Carolina State University’s Industrial and Organizational Psychology Program has been helping the North Carolina Highway Patrol develop and administer promotions tests. This year, however, something went wrong. Really wrong. What was it? We don’t know….
The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) has collected and analyzed seven million English-language syllabi from 80 countries. A total of 193,201 of these syllabi are from psychology courses. Let’s take a look and see what we can learn. Three of the…
Getting to Mars is going to take teamwork. Project FUSION, lead by IO psychologist Dorothy Carter, is figuring out what that really means. Successful communication and collaboration among multiple teams will be an essential part of deep space travel, and…
What they found was that employees experiencing imposter phenomenon are more likely to have conflict with work and family roles because they are emotionally exhausted, and they tend to be less satisfied with family life because of it.Society for Industrial-Organizational…
A good hiring test meets three criteria, says Fred Oswald, an industrial-organizational psychologist with expertise in personnel selection and analytics and a professor in the department of psychological sciences at Rice University. It’s reliable, which means a job applicant who…
Some silly but useful advice: go through and remove all contentless words and phrases, such as: – “Of course” – “Note that” – “Interestingly” – “very” – “nice” – “We can see that” – “It is important to note that”…
Sad news out of Italy. Blair John, a doctoral student in IO Psych at St. Mary’s University, was found dead in the Po River in Turin, Italy, alongside his friend, a diplomat, named Alrae Keiorn Ramsey. Mr. John was originally…