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Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology is the scientific study of working and the application of that science to workplace issues facing individuals, teams, and organizations. The scientific method is applied to investigate issues of critical relevance to individuals, businesses, and society.

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Beyond "Moneyball"

by Dan J. Putka & David Dorsey, Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO)

I-O Psychology and the Maturation of AI/ML Technology in HR

When people think of data and HR, one of the first images that may still come to mind is Moneyball. For those of you who don’t follow movies or baseball, Moneyball was a 2011 movie that chronicled major league baseball’s Oakland Athletics’ 2002 experience developing objective methods for quantifying human behavior and improving job performance using copious amount of data.

Moneyball portrayed the subjective assessment of talent (scouts’ intuition) as a technique far inferior to that of using of data and analytic methods, something that Industrial-Organizational (I-O) psychologists have recognized for more than 100 years. The idea of “evidence-based decision making” evangelized in Moneyball opened the eyes of many HR and business practitioners to methods that have been at the core of the I-O field since its inception....Read more

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Shape SIOP Leadership to Shape I-O Psychology’s Future

I-O psychologists have been studying the importance of leadership since the beginning of the discipline, and the subject never grows stale. A current example is the upcoming Leading Edge Consortium (register now!), which is once again exploring a facet of the topic, with its focus on High Potential Talent....Read more

Creating Leaders for Smarter Workplaces
Davis and Byham to close the Leading Edge Consortium After Smarter Workplace Awareness month is over, the 2018 Leading Edge Consortium Read more...

Tips for Making Leadership Development an Organizational Competitive Advantage
Across nearly every industry, work requires leaders to be equipped with the necessary tools to provide innovative solutions to complex Read more...

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APA Elections Now Open

SIOP Formally Endorses Shullman for President and Camara for Board of Directors

The election for the American Psychological Association (APA) president began September 14, and will close October 29, 2018. The ballot also has two slates for APA Board of Directors....Read more