From the Editor: Thanks for the Feedback!
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Laura L. Koppes
As many SIOP members do, we volunteer in numerous ways to help our professional society to accomplish its mission and goals. In doing so, we serve SIOP members. Thus, it’s important to review the input of members gathered with the SIOP member survey. In this issue, two articles are devoted to those survey results. When I received the results, I immediately focused on the TIP question. Eight-seven percent of the survey respondents provided a favorable response for TIP (6% provided a neutral response). For the first time with the member survey, open-ended questions about TIP were included. The survey respondents provided several valuable suggestions. Given that I have two issues left to prepare under my editorship, I will do my best to improve TIP based upon your input. A new editor, Wendy Becker of the University at Albany, SUNY, will begin with the July 2007 issue. I gave Wendy the survey results so she can begin planning ways to make improvements. If you have additional input and/or interested in serving on the editorial board, please contact Wendy at W.Becker@albany.edu.
Speaking of change, it’s now time to select new column editor(s) for the TIP-TOPics student column. Please be sure to read the column in this issue to learn how you can be considered as the next column editor.
Features
SIOP President Jeff McHenry provides a nice overview of initiatives and an update of strategic goals. Three additional features include the new human capital equation, meta-analysis and personnel selection, and character and personality.
From the Editorial Board
Several topics are included in the columns. I hope you find them interesting. All the column editors committed to writing their columns through the end of my editorship (my last issue will be April 2007). I greatly appreciate their voluntary time and efforts. With the upcoming transition of a new editor in July 2007, you should expect to see changes with these columns. If you have ideas about columns, please send them to Wendy.
News and Reports
This section is intended to inform SIOP members of SIOP’s business. In this issue, you will find several award announcements, information about the 2007 conference, and more. Some survey respondents suggested that these news items should be removed from TIP and posted on the Web site. If you have an opinion about this, let me know! (LKoppes@siop.org)
Happy New Year!