IOTAS October 2001

Jeff Edwards assumed the editorship of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes on July 1, 2001. Jeff follows Dan Ilgen, who served 3 years as editor, 13 years as associate editor under Jim Naylor, and 8 years as a board member, totaling nearly 25 years with the journal. During Dans editorial term, Jeff served along with Elke Weber as associate editor, during which time the editorial team received nearly 700 manuscripts and published approximately 140 articles. Looking forward, Jeff is joined by associate editors Terry Connolly, Dave Harrison, and Scott Highhouse, and nearly 60 board members. The editors will work together to maintain OBHDP as a premiere outlet for research that spans organizational behavior, organizational psychology, and human cognition, judgment, and decision-making. For more information regarding the future of OBHDP, please see the article written by Jeff that appears in this issue of TIP.

Shelly Zedeck is the editor-elect of Journal of Applied Psychology, taking the reins from Kevin Murphy at the close of his 6-year term as editor at the end of December 2002. According to Kevin, being editor of JAP has been the hardest, most rewarding and most interesting job I have ever had. To date, Kevin has received over 2,600 new manuscript submissions and over 1,000 revisions. He has handled this load with the assistance of his associate editors, Jim Breaugh, Bob Dipboye and Lois Tetrick, as well as 69 editorial board members and a pool of over 725 ad hoc reviewers. Kevin will continue to accept manuscripts through the end of 2002. As the incoming editor, Shelly feels that JAP is already first-rate. He plans to be receptive to publishing qualitative research, to encourage articles that have an international or global perspective, and to urge basic cognitive researchers to consider JAP as an outlet for the applied aspects of their work.

Ann Marie Ryan will become the next editor of Personnel Psychology at the completion of John Hollenbecks 6-year term in December 2002. At the end of his term, Johns team, which includes associate editor James Smither, editorial assistant Patty Hollenbeck, 45 editorial board members, and over 150 ad hoc reviewers, will have been responsible for the publication of 150 articles. John looks forward to seeing the influence this work has on theory, practice, and future research in our discipline. He says the toughest part of the editors job is sending out so many rejection letters (close to 900) knowing that decision making isnt 100% accurate and that some potentially great manuscripts got away. Ann Marie looks forward to continuing Personnel Psychologys tradition of publishing quality applied research.

People on the Move

Annette Towler has joined the Psychology Department at the University of ColoradoDenver as an assistant professor. Other SIOP members at CUDenver include Kurt Kraiger (SIOP Fellow) and Donna Chrobot-Mason. Annettes e-mail address is atowler@carbon.cudenver.edu.

Steven Rogelberg of Bowling Green State University has departed for the University of Sheffield, England for a year-long sabbatical. He will be working with Toby Wall, Peter Warr, and others at the Institute for Work Psychology. He can be reached by email at rogelbe@bgnet.bgsu.edu.

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