The Organizational Frontiers Series
Robert D. Pritchard
University of Central Florida
As of the SIOP conference, Neal Schmitts term as editor of the SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series ended, and I took over the job. As one of my first official actions, I want to thank Neal for his 5 years of dedicated service as editor, his previous years on the Editorial Board, and the fine work he has done in the production of many excellent Frontiers volumes. During Neals tenure, a number of other people have served on the Editorial Board. These include
Angelo DeNisi, Bob Dipboye, Jennifer George, Katherine Klein, Rich Klimoski, and
Cheri Ostroff. Thanks to all of you for your stimulating ideas and hard work.
I was also on the board during this time as were several of the current members of the board. The current members are
Fritz Drasgow, Michael Frese, Michele Gelfand, Steve Koslowski, Ed Salas, and Lois
Tetrick.
Finally, I want to thank all the editors and authors who put so much effort into these volumes. This is truly a labor of love, especially when all royalties for Frontiers books go to SIOP.
New Volumes
Four new Frontiers volumes have come out recently. A brief description of each is given below. These volumes can be purchased from Jossey-Bass or directly from SIOP, where SIOP members get a 20% discount. The link to the SIOP order form, where there are links to more info for each book including chapter titles and authors is
http://www.siop.org/bookorder.aspx.
Work Careers: A Developmental Perspective, edited by Daniel C. Feldman.
Work Careers brings together a stellar panel of experts from the fields of I-O psychology, counseling and clinical psychology, social psychology, organizational behavior, and human resource management. This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of how an individuals career unfolds from early childhood through retirement. Based on the most recent findings and current research, the volume also focuses on changes in the societal and organizational contexts of career development and reveals how context shapes and constrains individual career decisions.
Personality and Work: Reconsidering the Role of Personality in Organizations, edited by
Murray R. Barrick and Ann Marie Ryan.
The subject of personality has received increasing attention from I-O psychologists in both research and practice settings over the past decade. But while there is an overabundance of information related to the narrow area of personality testing and employee selection, there has been no definitive source offering a broader perspective on the overall topic of personality in the workplace.
Personality and Work at last provides an in-depth examination of the role of personality in work behavior. An array of expert authors discuss the connection of personality to a wide range of outcomes beyond performance, including counterproductive behaviors, contextual performance, retaliatory behaviors, retention, learning, knowledge creation, and the process of sharing that knowledge. Throughout the book, the authors present theoretical perspectives, introduce new models and frameworks, and integrate and synthesize prior studies in ways that will stimulate future research and practice.
Health and Safety in Organizations: A Multi-Level Perspective, edited by David A. Hofmann and
Lois E. Tetrick.
Health and Safety in Organizations offers a framework integrating various aspects of organizational health and a timely examination of the most current individual, group, and organizational health research. With contributions from some of the countrys most renowned experts on the topic of health in the workplace, this volume explores such vital issues as individual and organizational effects, improving worker safety, designing healthy work, group influences on health, antisocial work behavior, the influence of leadership on occupational health and safety, strategic HRM and organizational health, work and family interface, and workplace health promotion.
Managing Knowledge for Sustained Competitive Advantage, edited by Susan E. Jackson, Michael A. Hitt, and Angelo S.
DeNisi.
Knowledge management is a topic of steadily increasing interest to todays organizations. To date, however, the field of I-O psychology has not yet applied its unique knowledge and expertise to the problem of competing through knowledge. This volume addresses the problem by presenting a frameworkderived from the strategic management literaturefor competition based on knowledge. Focusing on the role of knowledge in human capital and human resource management,
Managing Knowledge for Sustained Competitive Advantage explains why many scholars believe it is the direction for competition in the future and shows how I-O psychologists can not only contribute to our understanding of knowledge-based competition but also to the ability of companies to succeed with it.
Change in Publisher
One bit of news is that SIOP is changing the publisher of the Frontiers Series. Jossey-Bass decided they did not want to continue with the series. An RFP from SIOP resulted in Lawrence Erlbaum (LEA) being selected as the new publisher. This has been and continues to be a transition with many issues to resolve and thanks go to
Bill Macey who has done the work to make this happen.
Ann Duffy will be our new contact at LEA. She has had many years of experience publishing I-O and management books, and I look forward to working with her. There are two volumes currently under contract with Jossey-Bass,
The Dark Side of Organizational Behavior edited by Ricky Griffin and Anne OLeary-Kelley, and
The Psychological and Organizational Bases of Discrimination at Work edited by Bob Dipboye and
Adrienne Colella. These should go to press in the next few months and whether they will be published by Jossey-Bass or LEA is still under discussion.
Mission of the Series and Editorial Policy
The primary mission of the Organizational Frontiers Series has been to do volumes on important current topics, with outstanding editors and authors, in a way that expands our knowledge. I certainly plan to continue this policy. One area I especially want to target is for all Frontiers volumes to present an extensive statement of where future scholarship in that area should focus. This has been done in past volumes, and I plan to emphasize it even more. Such a statement about future scholarship includes theoretical and conceptual issues, specific research questions, methodological issues, and any other issues that need to be addressed to advance this topic. A Frontiers volume should represent the thinking of the best people in the field, and these people should give us the benefit of their ideas on such future scholarship. What I have in mind is that people who wanted to do research in the area covered by the volume could read this material and use it as the foundation of their own research. To the extent this happens, the Frontiers volumes will have a major impact on future research and scholarship.
Submitting Frontiers Proposals
Frontiers volumes come from two sources. The Editorial Board generates ideas, and individuals submit proposals to the Editorial Board. If you have an idea for a good Frontiers volume, by all means submit it. Start with a 12 page summary of the idea for the book, the need for such a volume, and the topics the volume would cover. The boards review philosophy is developmental in that if we think this short proposal is a good idea, we will offer suggestions about how to expand this initial idea into a complete proposal.
I am also working on a set of materials with more detail on editorial policy, submission information, and example proposals. The idea is to give these materials to someone interested in doing a Frontiers volume to guide them in the development of proposals. If you want more information or have an idea for a volume, please contact me. With my move this summer from Texas A&M University to the University of Central Florida, my e-mail address will change, but mail sent to
rdp@psyc.tamu.edu will be forwarded.
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