Today's Must-See Events

Friday, April 16

Today’s events include the Friday Reception, which will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. CT and will offer both educational and social events:

• Grab a seat at one of the roundtable conversations on the Top 10 Work Trends, featuring champions and experts in the field (held 6:30–7:30 p.m. CT in the Roundtable Room).
• Or kick back and relax on a bench in Jackson Square while enjoying a virtual tour of the French Quarter’s creole cuisine, architecture, and history (30 min. starting at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. CT). 

Today’s live sessions span nine exciting topic areas:

•  Future of Work
•  Inclusion
•  Occupational Health
•  Selection and Assessment
•  Technology and Measurement
•  Counter-productive Work Behavior
•  Leadership and Succession Planning
•  Employee Experience, Culture, and Feedback
•  I-O Careers

Of note are the SIOP-Curated sessions:

•  9 a.m. CT: Anti-Racist Education and Training
•  10 a.m. CT: Creating Psychological Safety: Part 2
•  12:30 p.m. CT: DEI Panel: What Leading Organizations Are Doing
•  1:30 p.m. CT: SIOP’s Partnership With the United Nations
•  3:30 p.m. CT: State of SIOP and D&I
•  5 p.m. CT: The SIOP Living History Series Presents: Neal Schmitt

Interactive breaks are also scheduled from 8 to 8:50 a.m. CT, 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. CT and 2:30 to 3:20 p.m. CT.

Events and receptions will also take place today and this evening.

You can access all conference events through Whova. View the online schedule or program summary for more information.

Coming Up

Mark your calendars for these exciting conference events yet to come:

Saturday, April 17

•  Live sessions spanning seven topic areas
•  Interactive breaks
•  Closing Plenary
•  Closing Event, NOLA Flavor With the Crescent City Cooking Krewe, presented by Hogan Assessments

You can access all conference events through Whova. View the online schedule or program summary for more information.

2021 Anti-Racism Grant Winners Announced

Earlier this year, the SIOP Foundation and SIOP announced a second call for proposals as part of the Anti-Racism Grant program, a step toward addressing racism in work contexts using I-O science and practice.

The National Academy of Human Resources (NAHR) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) are co-announcers of this round of funding, as well as current donors to the SIOP Foundation.

The call, aimed at enlarging our understanding of racism in the workplace, its causes, and its reduction, brought in 22 submissions. Four submissions received funding:

•  What We (Don’t) Talk About When We Talk About Diversity: The Subtext and Consequences of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
•  Reevaluating the Target: Developing Messaging Strategies to Improve the Targeted Recruitment of Black Americans in Organizations
•  Words Matter: Identifying Language in Job Postings That Perpetuates Racial Segregation and Work
•  A Qualitative Investigation of Black Law Enforcement Officers: Mitigating Racism and Transforming Police Organizations

I-O psychologists conduct and apply research that improves the well-being and performance of people and the organizations that employ them. Because the presence of overt and institutionalized racial discrimination constitutes direct and indirect threats to the well-being and performance of employees and employers, anti-racism in the workplace is a topic that I-O psychology as a field must address. More information about SIOP’s Stand Against Racism can be found online.

Continue reading to learn about the winning submissions.

Attendee Spotlight: Leanne Lee

Yesterday, we met up with SIOP member and conference attendee Leanne Lee, a Senior Organisational Psychologist at Hatch, which is a talent matching platform. Here’s what she told us about her interest in I-O psychology: