Program Committee Goals and Progress Report Form

Committee Chair Name: Steven Rogelberg

• 1301 submissions reviewed (record number)
• Close to 5000 reviews processed (record number)
• Cut-off scores determined. Decisions made on submissions. Acceptance rates very similar to last year (greater rejection rate for symp/forum, lower rejection rate for posters). Details are forthcoming.
• Poster and interactive poster batches created
• Accepted submissions scheduled to minimize content conflicts and avoid first author conflicts
• Decision letters distributed
• Answering member questions. All went quite smoothly. 
• Presenter guidelines revised
• EC discretionary track created and scheduled
• Award winners scheduled
• Scheduling process highly thematic. Should be an easier program to navigate for attendees.
• Theme tracks designed and scheduled
  • Thursday Theme: Individual-Organizational Health. Industrial and Organizational Psychology has a long history of being concerned with individual well-being in terms of performance and attitudes toward the job and organization. However, we have only recently begun to broaden our perspectives on well-being to examine individual and organizational health.  To highlight the importance and challenges of individual and organizational health, the Thursday Theme will focus on research and practice aimed at optimizing well-being for organizations and employees. The Thursday Theme committee has tentatively developed six unique sessions to address various cutting-edge topics such as the impact of mergers/acquisitions on individual-organizational health
  • Saturday Theme: The State of I-O Education: A Candid Look in the Mirror. The inaugural Saturday Theme Track will be devoted to a vigorous examination of the current health and future prospects of I/O graduate education. A variety of opinion leaders and stakeholders representing both academia and practice will be assembled to deliberate the value of our current educational model and propose innovative and sometimes controversial ideas for shaping its future. An assortment of stimulating formats and accomplished presenters will be used to surface needed dialogue and focus on what it will take to meet emerging stakeholder needs, bring curricular innovation to life and recalibrate the nuts and bolts of high quality education.
• Track promotion efforts created.
• Friday seminars finished and scheduled

• Two external speaker committed and scheduled
  • We will have two keynote speakers on Friday: Dr. Jac Fitz-enz who is known worldwide as the “father” of human capital strategic analysis and measurement;  Dr. Paul Ekman, named by APA  as one the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, is a foremost expert on universal emotions.  
• Staying in contact with conference chair
• TIP articles created
• Mapping out room usage in SF
• Created extensive FAQs
• COIs planned out and scheduled

• Created another TIP article discussing changes
• Web posting about changes
• Answering member questions
• Staying true to recommendations. E.g., no receptions during the actual conference; moving to 19 concurrent sessions (down from 25).

• Working with AO and programmer. Huge effort, but will pay dividends in the long run.
• Processing time and labor time will all be down by at least 60% from here on in.

• Documenting all steps conducted given all the changes above. Adding to the doc that Julie and Tammy started.