4th Annual Ergonomics Design Competition for Student Teams
Auburn Engineers, Inc. has announced that they are hosting the 4th Annual Ergonomics Design Competition for Student Teams. Registration this year opens on September 6th. The competition is online and consists of a preliminary problem and a final design problem. The First Place team receives the coveted eTools Prize, including the traveling award statue to display for the year, a permanent team plaque, and individual award certificates and cash prizes of $300 to each team member. Second Place and Honorable mention also receive plaques, certificates, and cash prizes.
The preliminary competition is held during September and October, and the competition culminates in early November with a 48-hour project for the finalist teams. Upon registration teams are trained in eTools, ergonomics software developed by Auburn Engineers, Inc. Students evaluate and create a solution to the ergonomic dilemmas posed in the competition. This past year, students re-designed a backpack during the preliminary competition, then a packaging tape dispenser for the final competition. During the Preliminary Round Competition, “lightning round” projects provide opportunities for the teams to earn extra credit by responding to short and entertaining questions regarding ergonomics. The Lightning Round Projects are scored on quality and speed of their answers. And are typically thought provoking questions such as challenging the teams to describe ergonomics to their Grandparents.
Registration will be open from September 6- September 30, 2010. Teams of 3-5 persons can be any combination of full time graduate or undergraduate students and must be sponsored by a faculty advisor. Schools and advisors are not limited on the number of teams they may have. More information can be found at the website: www.ergonomicsdesign.org or by contacting Auburn Engineers, Inc. at information@ergonomicsdesign.org. There is a $50/team registration fee.
Posted August 23, 2010
Call for studies on team-level trust for meta-analysis
We are conducting a meta-analysis on the relationship between team-level trust and team processes, emergent states and team performance. We highly appreciate if you could share with us your unpublished/ in press papers on this topic or results from unpublished data.
More specifically, we are looking for quantitative studies (both field and experiment) where analyses have been performed at the group level of analysis (the group may be a team, but it could also be a business unit).
What we need for our analysis are: team-level means, standard deviations, zero-order effect sizes (e.g. r, d), reliabilities, aggregation statistics (e.g. rWGs, ICCs) sample size, whether self- or other report measures were used, country in which study was conducted, type of team, type of industry, and a description of the measures.
Although we are primarily interested in intrateam trust (i.e. trust among team members), we are also looking for studies on team-level trust in external parties (e.g. team-level trust in leader or management).
You can e-mail your papers and data to bajong@feweb.vu.nl. Naturally, unpublished papers/ data will be treated confidentially and we will cite any papers that are included in our analysis.
Posted August 13, 2010
IAREP / SABE / ICABEEP 2010 Conference will take place from 5th - 8th September in Cologne.
We were able to make the leading scientists in economic psychology come to Cologne and put together a very interesting and highclass conference program: http://wisopsy.uni-koeln.de/conf/index.php?page=browseSessions. If you are interested in participating you still have the opportunity to register for the conference until 1st September 2010 at latest. For registration please go to: http://www.iarep-sabe.uni-koeln.de/registration.html.
You also have the opportunity to purchase one-day-tickets for each conference day (100,- Euro including catering) from now on and at the conference itself.
To place an order beforehand, please send an email including the relevant conference day and your name and address to:
iarep-sabe@wiso.uni-koeln.de. To get tickets on spot, please go to the conference desk at the conference site.
In any way our team will be happy to assist you.
We are really looking forward to welcoming you in Cologne.
Posted 8/12/10
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 formulated in June of 2007. Input regarding the degree to which you believe that specific behavioral anchors are important to students’ professional readiness for internship is necessary to help them better understand critical factors influencing standards of training.
Please click on the following link to participate in this Internet survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V8RH2YX
Please contact Dr. Margaret Smith-Zoeller if you have any questions regarding this research.
Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
After completing the survey, you will be eligible to enter your name to win a $100 gift certificate.
Assessment and Competency Research Team:
Primary Researcher: Margaret Smith-Zoeller, PsyD
mszoeller@argosy.edu
(312) 777-7708
Secondary Researcher: Austin Yang, PsyD
Tertiary Researcher: Adam Shafer, MA
Further information regarding the Competency Benchmarks may be found at:
http://www.apa.org/ed/resources/comp-benchmark.pdf
Posted August 11, 2010
Registration is open for the Harvard Coaching Conference Sept 24 – 25 in Boston
We are pleased to announce that the third annual Harvard Medical School Coaching in Medicine & Leadership conference will take place September 24 and 25 in Boston at the beautiful Boston Renaissance Waterfront Hotel. This conference is organized by the Institute of Coaching at McLean/Harvard Medical School.
The first two Coaching in Medicine & Leadership conferences sold out and were wildly successful - we hope you can join us in 2010!
· Join and network on conference LinkedIn Group – go to
www.linkedin.com, Search under Groups for Harvard Coaching Conference
This energizing and groundbreaking event will feature keynotes by world leaders in coaching, theories that support coaching, and coaching research as well as breakout sessions with coaching exercises and demonstrations and a closing keynote/performance by a psychiatrist/concert pianist.
Special offerings include separate tracks for coaching skills practice in leadership; healthcare, and three hour experiential workshops. Together this creates an evidence based and energizing and inspirational coaching experience.
The conference serves executive, leadership, and health and wellness coaches as well as physicians, psychologists, healthcare providers, and those interested in leadership development who want the latest theory, research, and practice breakthroughs.
Posted 7/7/10
Meta-Analysis on Individualism-Collectivism
We are conducting a meta-analysis on the relation between Individualism-Collectivism & both cooperative behavior and performance. Individualism-Collectivism could be measured at all of the following: The individual level (i.e., a self-report survey), group level (e.g., a task, goal, or feedback interdependence manipulation; self-report measures of team interdependence), or at the societal level (i.e., research conducted in multiple countries or regions of countries). Both cooperation and performance could either be measured at the individual or group level of analysis, or both.
We highly appreciate if you could share with us your in-press paper or unpublished data. What we need are zero-order effect size measures (e.g., r, d) or statistics that could be converted into zero-order effect size measures (e.g., means and standard deviations, t-statistics, Sums of Squares from ANOVAs), and some other basic information, including sample size, level of measurement, reliabilities (if available), study setting, brief description of measure if self-report scales were used, and country that study was conducted in. You are welcome to email Justin Marcus at justinmarcus@knights.ucf.edu
Posted June 28, 2010
Free, First Year Membership for New Members of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (SPSMM), Division 51 of APA
A one year, free membership for 2011 is being offered by Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (SPSMM), Division 51 of APA. SPSMM advances knowledge in the psychology of men through research, education, training, public policy, and improved clinical services for men.
Benefits of Membership Include:
Free subscription to Psychology of Men and Masculinity (the official empirical journal of Division 51). Participation in SPSMM Listserve where members exchange information and ideas, discuss research and practice, and network with colleagues. Opportunities to serve in leadership roles in Division 51’s Committees and Task Forces. Involvement with Divisional Web page on your interests and expertise in psychology of men. Opportunities to meet, network, and socialize with over 500 psychologists committed to advancing the psychology men and gender.
For further information about the free membership application process: Go to Division 51’s website http://www.apa.org/divisions/div51/ for electronic application or www.apa.org/divapp<http://www.apa.org/divapp> or Contact Keith Cooke at kcooke@apa.org<mailto:kcooke@apa.org>
Posted 6/15/10
Executive Masters Program in Change Leadership
Applications are currently being accepted to become a part of the inaugural cohort of the Executive Masters Program in Change Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University. An overview of the program is outlined below and additional information can be found at www.tc.edu/leadchange or by emailing odprogramS@tc.edu. We look forward to hearing from you or meeting you at our next on-campus Information Session.
Developed specifically for experienced working professionals from a diverse range of industries, sectors and geographic locations, the year-long, intensive Executive Masters Program in Change Leadership is designed to help individuals and organizations increase their capacity for initiating, managing and sustaining workplace change efforts in increasingly complex and global environments.
Focusing on the application of both psychological and business principles to relevant real-world organizational challenges, the program emphasizes individual, team and organizational learning and transformation through rigorous training in and experience with applied research, reflective practice and the use of theoretical models.
Executives enter the program each summer in small cohorts of 16-24 students and are trained by faculty experts in organization change and consultation using a range of innovative adult learning technologies and various cultural immersion and residential experiences in and around the New York City metropolitan area.
The program is delivered in four 1-week modules extending over one year and includes pre-work, post-work and guided independent study/action research as part of the formal program requirements.
Executives will learn about change-related topics at the societal, organizational, group and individual levels and will be asked to integrate their own learning and professional development through various opportunities for practice and reflection.
The program culminates in a 45-credit Masters of Arts Degree in Organizational Psychology, with a specialization in Change Leadership.
Mid-career professionals and aspiring organizational leaders who wish to lead and manage future change efforts are especially encouraged to apply.
Posted May 12, 2010
Work, Stress, and Health 2011
Work and Well-Being in an Economic Context
May 19-22, 2011
DoubleTree Hotel, Orlando, Florida
The Call for Proposals (including online submissions) is available now, and can be found at the official conference website: http://www.apa.org/wsh/. The submission deadline is October 15, 2010.
For additional information, please contact:
Wesley Baker
Conference Coordinator
American Psychological Association
Public Interest Directorate
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
202-336-6033 (phone)
202-336-6117 (fax)
WSHConference@apa.org (email)
http://www.apa.org/wsh/ (Official Work Stress and Health Conference Website)
http://www.apa.org/pi/work/ (APA Public Interest Work Stress and Health Office Website)
Posted April 7, 2010
Announcing the 35th International Congress on Assessment Center Methods
Putting the Pieces Together: How Assessment Centers Are Used
to Select and Develop Talent Around the World
October 20–21, 2010
Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore
Make plans now to attend the 35th International Congress on Assessment Center Methods in Singapore, October 20–21, 2010. During this 2-day annual conference for assessment and HR professionals, attendees will have the opportunity to discuss and learn about:
- The role culture plays on assessment center implementation
- Global trends and new research results in assessment center methodology
- The evolution of assessment center methodology over the last 50 years
- The increasing use of assessment centers by universities
This conference is a mix of general and concurrent sessions with speakers from more than 10 countries. Participants will also have the opportunity to network with other assessment professionals from around the world.
For questions or if you would like to be included on the mailing list, please contact Kim Lambert at kimberly.lambert@ddiworld.com or (412) 220-7996 (US).
Don’t forget to visit the International Congress Web site for up-to-date information and registration/hotel details: www.assessmentcenters.org.
March 24, 2010
Journal of Personnel Psychology, Volume 9, Number 1, 2010 – free online access!
After nearly 10 years of experience and tradition in publishing high-quality, innovative research, the Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie has been transformed into the new Journal of Personnel Psychology (current Impact Factor: 1.8). The new editorial team, comprising Rolf van Dick (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), Eva Demerouti (Eindhoven University, The Netherlands), Martin Kleinmann (University of Zürich, Switzerland), Deniz Ones (University of Minnesota, USA), and Thomas Staufenbiel (University of Osnabrück, Germany), and supported by Johannes Ullrich as managing editor, is pleased to announce that first issue has now been published online, with free access to all.
This issue covers a variety of topics such as the demand control model (Bakker et al., The Netherlands), employee identification (Edwards and Peccei, United Kingdom), effects of social desirability on hiring judgments (Christiansen and Burns, United States), autonomy and workload in relation to temporary and permanent workers' job involvement (De Cuyper et al., Belgium and Finland), and goal adaptation (König et al., Switzerland and The Netherlands).
This first issue of Journal of Personnel Psychology is available online free of charge via: http://www.hogrefe.com/journals/jpp
For free e-mail alerts whenever new issues are released online, please register and sign up at http://www.psycontent.com/content/1866-5888. And of course if you or your library are interested in subscribing, Hogrefe Publishing (www.hogrefe.com) would be delighted to hear from you.
We hope you will enjoy reading the articles and we look forward to receiving your submissions in all areas of personnel and organizational psychology at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jppsy/.
The Editorial Team
Journal of Personnel Psychology
Posted March 4, 2010
Meta-Analysis
Zlatan Krizan and I are working on a meta-analysis, and we're hoping to gather any unpublished findings that might be relevant. The analysis examines the effect of feedback proximity on outcome predictions, so we're interested in any study that manipulates or measures (1) proximity to feedback regarding an outcome (e.g., the length of time until a student will find out an exam grade), and (2) measures some type of prediction regarding that outcome (e.g., the expected grade). A relevant study could also assess predictions about an outcome at two different points in time (e.g., in the form of a probability regarding a sporting event winner at two different time points before the game). If any of you have data along these lines and would be willing to share them with us, we would greatly appreciate it! We've set up an online form that will prompt you for the information we'd like to have:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Y9D2H3N
Thank you in advance for your help, and let me or Dr. Krizan (zkrizan@iastate.edu) know if you have any questions or feedback!
Kate Sweeny
Posted January 20, 2010
Meta-Analysis on Personality
Our research team at the University of Iowa is conducting a meta-analysis on the relationship between non-self-report measures of personality (Big Five and non-Big Five factors) and performance outcomes.
We highly appreciate if you could share with us your in-press paper or unpublished data. What we need is correlation coefficients and some basic information (e.g., sample size, rating sources). You are welcome to email Gary Wang at gang-wang@uiowa.edu.
Posted January 19, 2010
Seeking Unpublished Studies
My colleagues and I are looking at the nomological network of TMX and we are seeking unpublished studies that examine the relation of TMX to many OB/HR variables. If you have a study that you would be willing to include in this meta-analysis please contact George Banks at banksgc@vcu.edu.
Please also include how you would like your study cited.
Posted December 15, 2009
Call for unpublished manuscripts
We are conducting a meta-analysis examining differences in job characteristics over time and are looking for unpublished manuscripts to include in our study. We are interested in research conducted using the Hackman and Oldham (1975) Job Diagnostic Survey or the revised version (Idaszak & Drasgow, 1987). Specifically, we need unpublished manuscripts which report the mean of the job characteristics, the year the data were collected. No lab studies and non-US samples. If you have anything you would like to contribute to our research, please send it to wood.lauren8@gmail.com.
Posted August 11, 2010
Invitation to Participate in Quality of Hire Study for Patient Care Staff
Kronos® research scientists, Dr. Kristin Charles and Dr. Autumn Krauss, study talent management issues in the healthcare industry. They are currently seeking partner healthcare organizations for a Quality of Hire Study. The study focuses on quality of hire for patient care staff and will be conducted by asking current employees to complete a survey measuring individual characteristics such as personality, motivation, and work preferences. This data will be analyzed together with work quality information (including performance ratings) to identify what individual characteristics are predictive of employee work outcomes, including productivity, safety, patient care and others.
For more information about the benefits of the study, click here.
Please note this is not an attempt to sell products or services to partnering organizations - all the benefits of participation are at no cost to your organization!
For more information, please e-mail Dr. Kristin Charles at kristin.charles@kronos.com or call 503.596.3437.
Posted July 28, 2010
The U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is developing its research agenda—deciding what MSPB will study during the next three years. MSPB invites all interested members of the Federal and research communities to offer suggestions for inclusion in our future research.
Part of MSPB’s statutory mandate is to conduct studies of the Government's merit systems to determine whether they are operating in accord with the Merit System Principles and are free from Prohibited Personnel Practices. Every three years we actively seek input from our stakeholders about appropriate topics to study. The results of these studies are formally reported to the President and members of Congress.
You may use this link (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZJJ59FM ) to make your research suggestions anonymously, email your ideas to research.agenda@mspb.gov, or call either John Ford at (202) 653-6772, extension 1104 or Tanya Page at (202) 653-6772 extension 1341. Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who may also have research ideas to share with us.
July 27, 2010
The Graduate Management Admission Council® seeks research proposal submissions to our Management Education Research Institute Grant and Fellowship Programs
Deadline for submission: October 8, 2010
• Grants up to $100,000 each are funded for one to three year periods.
• The Institute offers year-long $50,000 faculty fellowships for research at the fellows' home institutions.
• The Institute offers year-long $20,000 doctoral student fellowships for research at the fellows' home institutions.
More information is available at http://www.gmac.com/gmac/researchandtrends/merinstitute/
GMAC Launches New Competition to Drive Innovation in Management Education
GMAC is inviting anyone to submit three paragraphs outlining an idea they think will improve business education, and the council plans to award a total of $250,000 in prizes to the 15 people whose ideas rise to the top, with the most promising proposal winning $50,000 in cash.
Entry deadline to submit entries to the Ideas to Innovation (I2I) Challenge is Friday, October 8th. Entries will be judged by a panel of educators and business leaders from around the world, and GMAC’s Management Education for Tomorrow (MET) Fund will award cash prizes to the contest winners. The winners will be announced in mid-December.
For complete details about the GMAC MET Fund Ideas to Innovation Challenge, visit www.gmacmetfund.org.
July 27, 2010
FORENSIC LINGUISTICS: APPLICATIONS
An intensive course that can either be taken for 3 graduate credits, or as a non-credit course with a certificate of completion. This course is co-taught by Robert A. Leonard, Director of the Forensic Linguistics Project, and James R. Fitzgerald, former FBI Supervisory Special Agent. Click here for instructor bios.
REGISTRATION OPTIONS
Take as either a 3 credit graduate course at normal credit rates of $2525, or earn a Continuing Education Certificate for $990
View Detailed Class Schedule and Registration Options
WHERE
Hofstra University campus in Hempstead, Long Island, 25 miles east of New York City. Hofstra University's unique Forensic Linguistics Project is a leader in forensic linguistic analysis.
ABOUT THE COURSE
A case-based approach to solving legal and law enforcement problems through linguistic analysis:
• Demographic Linguistic Profiles: Dialectology, sociolinguistics and linguistic variation analyses can indicate a writer's regional and local geographic origin, education level, occupational training, etc.
• Authorship Analysis: Who is the possible author? Investigation and litigation support of identification conclusions.
• Threat Level Analysis: State-of-the-art techniques, based on thousands of FBI cases, assess the probability of harm. How likely is the threat to be carried out? What are the overlaps between Threat Assessment and Forensic Linguistics?
The course elucidates, through lecture, case study, and workshop, forensic linguistic responses to:
• Terror: Domestic and foreign terror campaigns.
• Threat Assessment: Threats to government, officials, workplace, schools, and private individuals.
• Criminal Communications: Extortion, ransom notes, criminal intelligence disinformation, intercepted communications.
CASES
Case studies and class participation exercises are largely those worked by Fitzgerald or Leonard, which include the JonBenet Ramsey Case, UNABOM Case, National Football League Terrorism Threat Case, Philadelphia Bombing Case, Anthrax Case, Daniel Pearl Case, Barbie Doll Case, DC Sniper Case, UK School Bus Bombing Threat/Extortion Case, Hummert Murder Case.
Posted July 23, 2010
2010 Conference on Commitment
ADVANCES AND DEBATES SURROUNDING WORKPLACE COMMITMENTS
November 5-7, 2010 Columbus, OH, USA
Registration is now open for the 2010 Conference on Commitment. This conference brings together a community of scholars interested in the phenomenon of commitment to share and discuss ideas and findings relating to the conference theme of "Advances and Debates Surrounding Workplace Commitments." The purpose of this conference is to advance the literature by promoting leading-edge thinking on all aspects and forms of commitment in organizational contexts. The small size of the conference is designed to promote opportunities for informal interaction and dialogue among attendees to facilitate networking and sharing ideas.
The conference begins Friday afternoon November 5, 2010 with networking opportunities. Conference sessions will begin at 8:00 a.m. Saturday, November 6th and end at noon on Sunday, November 7th. There are 23 presentations of a variety of lengths and formats on the single track conference program with authors coming from 11 different countries. The complete program is available on the conference website (see below). Registration is required to attend the conference events. A special issue of Human Resource Management Review will be developed from the best presentations and ideas from the conference. Appearing on the conference program does not ensure an authorship opportunity nor is it a prerequisite. Potential articles will be solicited by the program committee following the conference.
The conference will be held at the Blackwell Inn and Conference Center in the Fisher College of Business complex at The Ohio State University. For more information, visit the conference website:
http://fisher.osu.edu/~klein_12/Commitment.htm or email Howard J. Klein, Program Chair, at
klein_12@fisher.osu.edu..
Posted July 13, 2010