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Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology is the scientific study of the workplace. Rigor and methods of psychology are applied to issues of critical relevance to business, including talent management, coaching, assessment, selection, training, organizational development, performance, and work-life balance.

LEC Keynote Speaker Discusses the Benefits of Shared Team Leadership

By Morgen Spon for SIOP

With today’s fast-paced workplace and continually growing demands placed on organizational leaders, leadership responsibilities can become overwhelming for a single person to handle. One SIOP leader says finding a way to distribute leadership responsibilities can be a key to organizational success.

As SIOP Fellow J. Richard Hackman, Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard University, explains, “The heroic single leader is no longer congruent with the burdening demands of today’s leadership.” Fortunately, he said, scholars and practitioners are recognizing that a shift is taking place within the workforce from traditional solo team leadership to shared team leadership.

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LEC Early Registration Deadline August 28

The early registration deadline for SIOP’s 6^th Annual Leading Edge Consortium, “Developing and Enhancing High-Performance Teams,” is only weeks away. Save money and take a step to enhance your career by reserving your seat early!

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The 6th Annual Leading Edge Consortium (LEC), to take place October 22-23, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, Tampa, Florida, is chaired by Gary Latham...Read more

Post-Recession Talent Strategies
The weakness of the economic recovery has real implications for the workforce -- and for HR executives charged with maximizing Read more...

IOP Journal Now Accepting Commentaries
Submission Deadline August 27Two focal articles have recently been accepted for Volume 4, Issue 1 of SIOP’s journal, Industrial and Read more...

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Competency Benchmark Study

A study is currently being conducted to evaluate the attitudes and beliefs of psychologists regarding the competency benchmarks in place for evaluating graduate students. This research group requests your participation in this research because of your experiences with supervising the clinical and/or academic training of psychology graduate students. To this end, they are requesting participation in taking a 30 minute online survey about your thoughts on the relevancy of the foundational competency and assessment criteria provided by the American Psychological Association’s Assessment of Competency Benchmarks Work Group...Read More