What is I-O?

The Continuing Education and Workshop Committee is very pleased and proud to announce this years lineup of distinguished workshop leaders and compelling topics for the SIOP Pre-conference Workshops to be held in Toronto on April 11, 2002. More detailed information will follow in the next issue of TIP. We hope you will join us for what promises to be an outstanding set of learning opportunities.

1. Driving Organizational Outcomes with Strategic Employee Surveys: Best Practices from Internal and External Practitioners by Jack Wiley, President & CEO, Gantz Wiley Research and Sara Weiner, Consulting HR Professional, IBM Global Employee Research. Coordinator: Kyle Lundy.

2. Staffing in a Changing Workforce Environment by Suzanne Tsacoumis, Manager, Personnel Selection and Development Program, HumRRO and Larry Fogli, President, People Focus. Coordinator: Pat Powaser.

3. Organizational Fit: Aligning I-O and OD Interventions with Strategy by David A. Nadler, Chairman and CEO, Mercer Delta Consulting, David W. Bracken, Partner, Mercer Delta Consulting and Mindy D. Millward, Partner, Mercer Delta Consulting. Coordinator: Bob Barnett.

4. Business Fundamentals for I-Os, Part 1: Financial and Accounting Concepts; Part 2: Strategy and Marketing Concepts (**Note, this is a full-day workshop; participants must sign up for both sessions.) given by Peter Ramstad, Executive Vice President, Strategy and Finance, Personnel Decisions International, Paul R. Bly, Consultant, Organizational Solutions Group, Personnel Decisions International, and Jenifer A. Kihm, Director, National Programs, IntelliMark-IT Resources. Coordinator: Luis Parra.

5. Current Issues in Compensation: How I-O Psychologists Can Play an Important Role by James W. Herring, President, The Herring Firm and John R. Ellerman, Principal, Towers Perrin. Coordinator: Vicki Pollman.

6. The Yin and Yang of Consulting: Trends, Realities, and Real-World Solutions by David B. Peterson, Senior Vice President, Personnel Decisions International, and Laurie Zaugg, VP, Human Capital Development, UnitedHealth Group. Coordinator: Ken Koves.

7. The Opposite of Selection: How to Exit Employees by Patricia Berg, General Manager and Director of Consulting and Client Services, Career Management Services. Coordinator: Pete Hudson.

8. The Practitioners Dilemma: Designing Effective yet Practical Research for Organizations by Mort McPhail, Principal, Jeanneret & Associates, Neal Schmitt, Professor, Michigan State University, and Calvin Hoffman, Director, Organizational Psychology Program, Alliant University. Coordinator: Sue Stang.

9. Developments in Employment Law: Beyond the Basics by Donald L. Zink, Esq., Personnel Management Decisions, and Arthur Gutman, Professor of Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology. Coordinator: Steve Robison.

10. Tailor-Made: Selecting Employees for Organization Fit by Jonathan Canger, VP, HR Research and Development, TMP/Monster.com, Fritz Drasgow, Professor, University of Illinois, and Amy Powell Yost, Selection Consultant, Capital One Financial Corporation. Coordinator: Joan Brannick.

11. Marrying Assessment and Technology: For Better and Worse by Ann Howard, Manager, Development Dimensions International, Frank J. Landy, CEO, SHL-Landy Jacobs, and Douglas H. Reynolds, Manager of Assessment Technology, Development Dimensions International. Coordinator: Tim Patton.

12. Strategic Development of High-Potential Talent by Ben Dowell, VP, Center for Leadership Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, and Eric Elder, Director, Center for Leadership Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Coordinator: Will Shepherd.

13. Strategic HRM Planning: Goodbye Yellow Brick RoadThe Diverse and Winding Paths to Strategic HR by Veronica Schmidt-Harvey, Senior VP, Aon Consulting, Mary Federico, VP, Aon Consulting, and Ralph Mortensen, Assistant VP, Aon Consulting. Coordinator: Steve Johnson.

14. Innovative Practices for Building 21st Century Executives by Rob Silzer, Managing Director, HR Assessment and Development, Inc., John Fulkerson, VP, Leadership & Organization Capability, Cisco Systems, Inc., and George Hollenbeck, President, Hollenbeck Associates. Coordinator: Bob Barnett.

15. Program Evaluation for Human Resources: The Art and Science of Measuring Success by John C. Scott, VP, Applied Psychological Techniques, Jack E. Edwards, Senior Social Science Analyst, U.S. Government GAO, and Nambury S. Raju, Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology. Coordinator: Jeff Stanton.

16. Diversity Best Practices: Building Stickiness into Your Organization for Diverse Talent. by Mary P. Nelson, Director of Diversity, S.C. Johnson, and John Peoples, Managing Partner, Global Lead Management Consulting. Coordinator: Kris Fenlason.