Announcement of New SIOP Fellows July 2007

Dr. Ashworth is recognized for his significant contributions as a practitioner, a scholar, and a mentor. A widely respected practitioner, he has published his work, taught and supervised research at universities, served on editorial boards, and participated actively in SIOP. His publications on validity generalization and survey research are frequently cited. He has been an important mentor to new practitioners in business and industry. In SIOP he has served as the chair of Job Placement and Site Selection Committees and is the current chair of Electronics Communications.

Leanne Atwater (Arizona State University, West)

Dr. Atwater has made signficant contributions at the scientist–practitioner interface. She was one of the earliest researchers studying the input and implications of different patterns of self/other ratings. Her publications, which include two books, six book chapters, and 50 journal articles, have received international acclaim in the popular press as well as in I-O psychology. She has been active in many professional activities, including service on editorial boards and on SIOP and Academy of Management committees.

Michael Coovert (University of South Florida)

Dr. Coovert is recognized as a multidisciplinary researcher and thinker; his innovative research in performance measurement has demonstrated that nonlinear predictor–criterion relationships can be modeled with techniques such as Petri nets, rough sets, and nonlinear structural equation modeling. He has made seminal contributions to our understanding of the impact of technology on individuals and organizations, especially in such areas as interfaces, training, decision making, and virtual teams. He is the founding director of USF’s Institute for Human Performance, Decision Making & Cybernetics and he has served as editor of TIP.

José Cortina (George Mason University)

Dr. Cortina is best known for his methodological contributions across a number of areas, including reliability, interaction, significance testing and effect size, and personality as a predictor of performance. His scholarly work has been recognized by SIOP’s Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award and the Academy of Management’s Research Methods Award for best published paper. He currently is an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology and is a Division 14 representative to the APA Council.

Alice Eagly (Northwestern University)

Dr. Eagly is an outstanding scholar with internationally known work on attitudes and on gender in organizations. Her pioneering research has influenced the study of attitudes in the workplace and offered critical new perspectives on how leadership is affected by gender roles, stereotypes, and expectations. Her carefully crafted work is considered the “gold standard” for methodological rigor, quality, and impact. She served as chair of APA’s Board of Scientific Affairs.

Michael Frone (State University of New York at Buffalo)

Dr. Frone is recognized for his leadership in research on the work–family interface and employee substance abuse. His model of the work–family interface was the first to incorporate the distinction between work interfering with family and family interfering with work. His published research on substance has led to new understandings of employee substance use and productivity outcomes and the first representative national survey of substance use in the workplace.

Michelle Gelfand (University of Maryland)

Dr. Gelfand’s work is internationally recognized as having major influence in three areas: theory and method in the study of culture, integrating cross-cultural psychology with the literature on negotiation and conflict issues, and workplace diversity, particularly on the topics of sexual harassment and discrimination. In recognition of her research contributions, she received SIOP’s Distinguished Early Career Award and the Academy of Management’s Cummings Award.

Deirdre Knapp (HumRRO)

Dr. Knapp is recognized for her outstanding work in conducting and managing personnel and testing-related research. Her contributions include large-scale selection and classification research and development in military settings, strategic job analysis, standardized performance measurement, broad spectrum predictor development, and modeling real world classification decisions. She is also recognized for her groundbreaking work on the assessment of professional competence and for her influential contributions to APA and SIOP, including the revision of the APA code of ethics.

Elizabeth Kolmstetter (Transportation Security Administration)

At TSA, Dr. Kolmstetter developed and managed the selection process to hire 55,000 new federal aviation screeners in the largest civilian workforce mobilization in U.S. history after 9-11. As the very first I-O at the FBI she pioneered many innovative personnel programs and is considered an expert in law enforcement HRM. The depth and breadth of her applied work has transformed the use of skill standards and validated assessments in the private and public sectors.

Carol Kulik (University of South Australia)

Dr. Kulik is a highly influential scholar whose work bridges the academic–practice divide and makes connections between theoretically rich concepts and real-world organizational issues. Her major contributions to the literature include diversity and discrimination, organizational justice, and procedural comparison processes in organizations; her research focuses on explaining how human resource management interventions influence the fair treatment of people in organizations. She exemplifies bridging the research–practice gap with her publications for practicing managers.

Thomas W. Lee (University of Washington)

Dr. Lee is being recognized for his work in research, model building, translation of research, and his service to the profession. His work on organizational attachment has influenced the direction of that important area. He is an exemplar for the use of qualitative models in I-O psychology. In addition, in his role as editor of the Academy of Management Journal, he has helped shape and develop the field of I-O psychology.

Paul Levy (University of Akron)

Dr. Levy is recognized for his outstanding programmatic research on feedback processes in organizations. He has made major contributions in the areas of feedback seeking, performance appraisal feedback, feedback sources, and the feedback environment. A student-oriented I-O psychologist, he is the author of leading I-O textbooks, an award-winning outstanding teacher, and an important mentor to students.

Kevin Mossholder (Louisiana State University)

Dr. Mossholder’s special academic emphasis has been bridging organization behavior and human resources management. He has made pivotal scholarly contributions in understanding interpersonal workplace interactions and their effects on key organizational outcomes, how personal and relational variables influence individuals’ work attitudes and behaviors, and in integrating individuals with human resource functions in organizations. He was an early proponent of explicitly examining group and contextual influences on individuals, presaging what is now recognized as multilevel organizational research.

Jone Pearce (University of California-Irvine)

Dr. Pearce is widely recognized for her work on the mutual effects of organizational control systems and interpersonal processes. Her ground-breaking research on how incentives and control systems interact with trust and social influence processes is used in a wide range of subdisciplines and is considered foundational in the study of organizational volunteers, compensation, and organizational behavior in transitional economies. Her measures of interpersonal dependence and trust are used by scholars worldwide. Her service contributions include SIOP and IAAP committees and president of the Academy of Management.

Hannah Rothstein (Baruch College)

Dr. Rothstein has been instrumental in creating and refining the techniques of meta-analysis and validity generalization, and publication bias. Her popular power analysis and meta-analysis software has enabled other scholars to use these techniques widely. She has been an outstanding ambassador of I-O psychology to the International Campbell Collaboration, a broad group of social science researchers who use meta-analysis to aid policy makers in judging the effectiveness of various interventions.

Juan Sanchez (Florida International University)

Dr. Sanchez has made significant contributions to I-O psychology in the areas of job/work analysis and job design, as well as stress and cross-cultural reactions to work. His early work was directed at methodological issues related to improving the reliability and accuracy of job analysis ratings. His expertise has been sought by several organizations including the Federal Aviation Authority, the National Research Council, the Social Security Administration, and the U.S. Department of Labor.

Sabine Sonnentag (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Dr. Sonnentag is recognized for her outstanding contributions across national boundaries in two primary areas of research: expertise, where she connected cognitive expertise with I-O psychology; and the area of unwinding, in which she showed that specific recovery activities are important to taking a break or rest from certain tasks and that recovery predicts subsequent work engagement and proactive behavior. Dr. Sonnentag is one of the most prolific European I-O psychologists as well and serves on international applied psychology editorial boards.

Garnett Stokes (University of Georgia)

Dr. Stokes personifies the scientist–practitioner at the highest level. Her work on the theory and research of biographical information is an essential foundation for anyone working in the field of biodata. Her commitment throughout her career to psychology as both an academic and applied discipline have guided her in her work as a scholar, a teacher, and an administrator. Her service to the profession includes APA’s Committee on Acreditation. In addition to her other work, as an outstanding and committed teacher, Dr. Stokes has chaired 28 doctoral dissertations and has sat on more than 200 graduate student committees.

Scott Tannenbaum (Group for Organizational Effectiveness)

As an exemplary scientist–practitioner and with outstanding contributions in both the academic and corporate worlds, Dr. Tannenbaum has applied research-based solutions to companies both in the U.S. and abroad in the areas of learning, development, and training issues. He is one of the leading authorities on team effectiveness, internal consulting, and human resources strategies. He holds an unusual mix of skills—scientific rigor with a practical focus—that has enabled him to excel both as an academic and a practitioner, producing tools that have impacted organizations throughout the globe.

Bennett J. Tepper (Georgia State University)

Dr. Tepper is a leading expert on abusive supervision in the workplace. His pioneering research has shed light on the antecedents and consequences of this phenomenon and laid the conceptual and methodological foundation for a growing body of rigorous and systematic empirical scrutiny. He has also been an ad hoc reviewer for most of the important journals in I-O, and his work has served as the basis for a growing public awareness of the impact of abusive supervision.

Dean Tjosvold (Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China)

Dr. Tjosvold is recognized by his peers as a world class scholar whose exemplary research offers critical insights into the nexus of power, conflict management, and leadership and provides I-O with core theoretical and empirical insights into the processes involved with teamwork, leadership, power, and conflict across national and international settings. Not just a scholar, Dr. Tjosvold has drawn the implications of his work for managerial practice. The international perspective of his work offers great future utility in a globalizing world.

Robert Vandenberg (University of Georgia)

Dr. Vandenberg has conducted pioneering research in leadership, organizational commitment, high-involvement work processes, workplace safety and health, work unit effectiveness and structural equation modeling, including measurement equivalence and growth curve modeling. His work is exemplary in its blend of conceptual sophistication and methodological rigor. His service includes serving on several of SIOP’s committees and on the editorial boards of several journals; he is the incoming editor of Organizational Research Methods.

Connie Wanberg (University of Minnesota)

Dr. Wanberg’s research is focused on individual-level career success and employee adaptation issues both internal and external to the workplace. Her interdisciplinary theorizing and rigorous field research has had wide application in the state of Minnesota, influencing statewide policies and practices on workforce development. Her service includes being on the editorial boards of The Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology.

Robert Wood (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Dr. Wood’s outstanding contributions include the research and empirical work in applications of self-efficacy theory, studies of task complexity and task motivation and performance, and research on cognitive theories of attention resources and information processing. His work on remuneration systems has found extensive application in Australia and internationally. In addition, Dr. Wood is the editor of Applied Psychology: An International Review and he is the founder of the Society for Organisational Behaviour, Australia.