IOTAS

Awards & Recognition

Gene Johnson, a member since 1991, has been elected as chair-elect of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology (DOP), the UK’s equivalent to SIOP. The DOP has 3,400 members and is BPS’ second largest division. Gene will take office as Chair in 2008. He also recently joined Dell as learning & development manager, EMEA.

Kizzy Parks, a graduate student at Florida Tech was recently elected to the APS Student Executive Board.  She serves as the student notebook editor for the APS’s Observer.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Transitions, Appointments, and New Affiliations

The I-O program at Colorado State University is pleased to announce the additions of two new faculty for fall 07: Alyssa Mitchell Gibbons of the University of Illinois and Stefanie Johnson, who graduated from Rice University and is currently at the University of Colorado at Denver.

University of North Carolina Charlotte is thrilled to announce the hiring of Linda Rhodes Shanock.  Linda will be an assistant professor of psychology and an assistant professor of organizational science starting this fall.  She will join colleagues in both I-O and organizational science: Anita Blanchard, Kimberly Buch, David Gilmore, Eric Heggestad, Jo Ann Lee, Charlie Reeve, Steven Rogelberg (Director), William Siegfried, Jennifer Welbourne, Chris Henle, Lisa Rashotte, Doug Pugh, Beth Rubin, Kelly Zellars, Yang Cao, Teresa Scheid, Wei Zhao, Shawn Long, Clifton Scott, John Kello, and Scott Tonidandel.

Development Dimensions International (DDI), a global human resource consulting firm, recently hired several SIOP members.  Emily Bailey was hired as a consultant, providing integrated business solutions to clients while focusing on research, development, and new technologies.  Vicki Walia was hired as a consultant in New York City, and she will work with clients to implement a variety of business solutions.  Jazmine Espejo was recently hired as a consultant for DDI’s Center for Applied Behavioral Research, and she will conduct studies to examine the impact of solutions and research key workforce and human resource trends.  Sandra Rowe Fiaschetti was also hired recently as executive assessment team leader in the Detroit office. Fiaschetti will manage executive assessment center operations to ensure consistency and reliability of assessment and will conduct executive feedback sessions for candidate selection and development strategies.

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Keep your fellow SIOP members up to date! Send your items for IOTAS to Wendy Becker at WBecker@siop.org.