Allan H. Church
W. Warner Burke Associates, Inc.
By now you have figured out that IOTAs has moved from being the
catch-all for the Editor’s comments and an introduction to the issue at hand, to
being solely focused on what it was originally (and I mean originally) intended to
do. Ok, here is a piece of SIOP trivia for all of you diehards:
Jim further noted that, contrary to what one might think or infer, the
term IOTAS was not meant to imply that the items contained within were minutiae. So, in
the future, send me all your bits and pieces and I will be sure to include them in these
pages.
Anyway, without further ado, on to this issue’s list of SIOP
movers and shakers.
Awards
Congratulations to SIOP members George Alliger, Scott
Tannenbaum, Winston Bennett, Holly Traver, and Allison Shotland
who recently received the American Society for Training and Development’s (ASTD) 1997
Research Award for their article entitled "A meta-analysis of the relations among
training criteria" published in Personnel Psychology. According to the ASTD,
"the award recognizes one outstanding, original piece of research each year published
in a refereed journal and that holds major implications for practitioners of workplace
learning and performance." The research was supported by Armstrong Laboratory’s
HR Directorate. The authors will be sharing their results at ASTD’s National
conference in June. And as Scott noted, practitioners interested in meta-analysis, who
would have thought!
Jacob (Jack) Hautaluoma of Colorado State University has been
awarded a Fulbright grant to teach in Croatia at the University of Rijeka for the Spring
semester, 1998. Jack is one of 1,600 U.S. grantees selected to travel abroad for the 97-98
academic year under the Fulbright Program. The program was designed "to increase
mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other
countries."
People on the Move
Thomas Timmerman is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at
Austin Peay State University, where he supports the new M.A. program in I-O Psychology. Chet
Robie accepted a position last year with the University of Houston and Gary
Greguras has recently joined the faculty at Louisiana State University. Virginia Tech
would like to recognize the addition of their new faculty member John Donovan from
SUNY-Albany who begins as Assistant Professor this August. Georgia T. Chao is the
newest APA Council representative for SIOP.
Jay Gandy is retiring from remunerative I-O work and is focusing
his energies on educational, political, and legal efforts in support of human rights in
relation to sexual and gender orientation. Jay expects to keep up with research and
employment-related issues and looks forward to serving as an informational contact in this
area. Jay previously retired from an applied research career with the federal
government—primarily OPM—and subsequently consulted extensively with the
Department of Labor and other clients through Gandy & Associates.