Announcing New SIOP Members

On March 7, 2008, APA recognized 14 employers for their efforts in fostering employee well-being through its Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award (PHWA). These awards recognize some very progressive organizations for implementing some incredibly innovative “people” policies/programs that would impress even an I-O psychologist!

Five Award Winners were selected for their comprehensive efforts to promote employee health and well-being, while nine Best Practice Honorees were recognized for a specific, innovative program or policy contributing to a psychologically healthy work environment. Recipients come from both for-profit and nonprofit worlds, and represent a diversity of industries from health care to financial services to hospitality. You can learn more about the winners at http://www.phwa.org/goodcompany/number.php.

The APA’s Practice Directorate (through its Business of Practice Network) created the PHWA as part of its effort to educate consumers, business leaders, and others about the value of psychology and its relevance to daily life. It devotes considerable resources to promoting the award, publicizing its winners, and promoting practices associated with psychologically healthy work environments. The program is getting increasingly more publicity—and SIOP members could be doing more to shape, contribute, and benefit from this initiative.

How can you have an impact? Get involved at a local level. The national PHWA winners are nominated by state, provincial, and territorial psychological associations through local PHWA programs/committees. Many of these local committees are seeking I-O psychologists to help promote the award and evaluate nominees. However PHWA programs operate as committees of the state, provincial, and territorial psychological associations, and many of these state level associations have no I-O psychologists as members.

Contact your state, provincial or territorial psychological association (http://www.apa.org/practice/refer.html) or the PHWA committee for your state (http://www.phwa.org/howtoapply/bopn.php) to see how you can help.

Anna Erickson represents SIOP as the Division 14 Representative to the Business of Practice Network, the APA organization sponsoring and promoting the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award.

Contact Anna Erickson, 651.683.8697; aerickson@questarweb.com.

Assembly of Scientist/Practitioner Psychologists,
American Psychological Association

The Assembly of Scientist/Practitioner Psychologists (ASPP), a caucus of the Representatives of APA, is providing an expense paid trip to the February 2009 council meeting in Washington DC for a doctoral student in psychology to become familiar with the governance structure of the APA Council and the caucuses and how they work. At the council meeting the student who receives the award will be mentored by the chair of the ASPP.

The ASPP Board will review all submissions, select a student and announce the recipient after the August 2008 council meeting.

Interested students may send their CV and a 100-word statement about their future plans as a scientist–practitioner to the chair of the ASPP, Dr. Linda Sobell at sobelll@nova.edu. Deadline for submission is July 30, 2008.

Journal of Managerial Psychology Call for Papers for Special Issue: Cooperation in Organizations

Guest Editors: René Schalk and Petru L. Curþeu, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; m.j.d.schalk@uvt.nl., p.l.curseu@uvt.nl

The theme: Cooperation is one of the most important topics for modern organizations. There is a lack of research, however, that provides clues on how modern organizations can best organize their cooperation processes. Cooperation as a synergic force remains a core organizational process driving organizational effectiveness.

The quality of cooperation often distinguishes successful from less successful organizations. Therefore, managers face the challenge to foster cooperation within the company to ensure that (a) the company is able to quickly adapt to changes in the environment, (b) the company is positioned well in interorganizational networks, and (c) flexibility in production or service is ensured to cope with changes in the environment. Being innovative as well as being able to operate efficiently requires effective cooperation within companies.

Although cooperation is one of the main topics in organizations, there is a need for more theory development and research on the topic. Therefore, this special issue of the Journal of Managerial Psychology aims to address issues related to cooperation in organizations.

We would like to include in the special issue conceptual as well as empirical papers that bring new theoretical insights in the area of cooperation in organizations.

Deadline: September 1, 2008

Please contact the guest editors if you have questions about the special issue.
All papers should be from 5,000 to 7,000 words and should be submitted electronically to Kay Sutcliffe at ksutcliffe@emeraldinsight.com, stating that the paper is for a special issue of the Journal of Managerial Psychology on “Cooperation in Organizations.”

Journal of Managerial Psychology Call for Papers for Special Issue: Intercultural Competence

Guest Co-Editors: Michael J. Morley, University of Limerick, Ireland, Jean-Luc Cerdin, ESSEC Business School, France

The intercultural encounter, in all its guises, is becoming an increasingly common experience in a greater array of workplaces and work settings in an ever-increasing number of countries and regions. In the international business arena, intercultural competence, at the individual level, is presumed to be associated with global career success and, at the organizational level, with business success through the more effective management of business operations in this increasingly diverse range of host locations. Yet, the cumulative evidence on these fronts remains mixed. Conceptual and definitional challenges abound, the path to its development remains uncertain, and its resultant impact is, at best, somewhat variable.

This special issue of the Journal of Managerial Psychology aims to further explore the multifaceted nature of intercultural competence and deepen our knowledge of its relationship with individual and/or organizational effectiveness. Specifically, we intend to publish papers that contribute to (a) a better conceptualization and definition of intercultural competence, (b) the relationships between intercultural competence and individual or organizational outcomes, and (c) measurement of intercultural competence.

We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions to the special issue.

The deadline for electronic submissions of between 5,000 and 7,000 words is September 29, 2008. Please submit to Kay Sutcliffe, at ksutcliffe@emeraldinsight.com, stating that the paper is for a Special Issue on “Intercultural Competence.”

For additional details, please contact either of the Guest Co-editors: Prof. Michael J. Morley, michael.morley@ul.ie; Prof. Jean-Luc Cerdin, cerdin@essec.fr.