Do you have colleagues that don't know what SIOP is?  These new videos might help! Recently, we created short promotional videos explaining what is SIOP and Industrial & Organizational Psychology.  Specifically, these videos feature SIOP members talking all about I-O: what it is, what they do, and what can be done with it.  You can check out the videos here: 30 second version:  https://youtu.be/Wamkx8luZf4 60 second version:  https://youtu.be/9LD19HOy4hM 5 minute version:  https://youtu.be/DLR6eCrLih0 As can be seen, a lot of work – and a lot of help from a lot of people – went into creating these videos.  It was important to us to highlight the breadth of what I-O Psychologists do and who we are.  To this end, we included professors (from both psychology and business departments), external and government consultants, internal practitioners, and graduate students.  Additionally, it was also important to us that these videos ref ...

This month's post comes to us from Clemente Diaz. In this post, he highlights two articles he recently wrote for the APA's Psych Learning Curve website addressing why Intro instructors should include I-O in their classes as well as the common barriers they face. Check it out, and feel free to reach out to him with any questions or thoughts! As we all know, very few Introductory Psychology textbooks highlight I-O Psychology. To assist instructors in exposing their students to I-O, SIOP has developed a wide variety of teaching resources (sample syllabi, PowerPoints, content summaries, etc). Unfortunately, in some cases this isn’t enough to convince instructors to include I-O in their course(s). A recent survey I conducted showed that 43 percent of respondents weren’t interested in receiving free resources on how to incorporate I-O in to their course(s). When asked why not, one respondent stated “Currently we have access to materials if need be, it [I-O] ju ...

Would you like to get involved with GIT's efforts to educate more students about I-O Psychology?  Consider joining Bridge Builders! What Is Bridge Builders? Bridge Builders is a sub-committee of the Education and Training committee of SIOP.  The purpose of Bridge Builders to educate students at all levels from high school to college to graduate students (not in I-O) about what I-O Psychology is.  Our committee is newly (re)formed, and we have just started this work.  To read more about Bridge Builders, please see:  https://www.siop.org/Portals/84/docs/BB%20TIP%205.21.15.pdf?ver=2020-05-27-153353-610 The focus this year based on Dr. Talya Bauer’s charge is on high school psychology courses, and especially AP courses. We have started to brainstorm ideas on how to reach to these AP courses. In particular, there are two efforts being made: Speaking at High Schools We would like to develop a list of SIOP members (faculty and graduate students) that would be wi ...

Right now, high school Psychology students don't always learn about I-O Psychology.  However, that might be changing! Many students’ first exposure to psychology comes during their formative years in high school. In a high school Introductory Psychology class, students get an overview of the discipline, similar to what they hear in undergraduate classes, though geared towards high school students. Perhaps not surprisingly, I-O is an area that sometimes (perhaps most of the time) does not get much coverage in these classes. In 1999, the American Psychological Association (APA) Board of Educational Affairs put forward the original National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula. The standards include coverage of seven content domains, including Scientific Inquiry, Biopsychology, Development and Learning, Sociocultural Context, Cognition, Individual Variation, and Applications of Psychological Science. If you are interested in learning more about the standards follow the link ...

The goal of GIT is to help more students learn about I-O Psychology in their Introductory Psychology courses (by adding the topic to textbooks).  For this blog post, I wanted to hear from a student that had this experience.  How can learning about I-O in Intro affect students’ academic careers and post-college plans? Enter Isaac Lindquist, current I-O graduate student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.  Isaac first learned about I-O back in his undergraduate Intro Psych class.  As you’ll see below, Isaac was originally a business major, but learned about I-O in his Intro Psych course and in it found a new way to work with businesses beyond what he was learning in his business courses. Below is an interview I (Nick Salter) conducted with Isaac: Nick:  What did you think of I-O Psychology when you first learned about it in your Intro Psyc class?  What were your first impressions? Isaac: I was first actually a Business Adm ...

Recently, I (Nick Salter) was asked to speak about the GIT Task Force on the Department 12 podcast.  In this interview, I spoke with Ben Butina about who we are, what we have done so far, and we hope to accomplish.  Check it out!

https://department12.com/nick-salter-on-getting-io-into-intro-psych/

While you are there, check out all the cool information about I-O on the Department 12 website.

---

What exactly is GIT?  Check out our first blog post explaining who we are!

Do you have any other thoughts on how SIOP members can be involved with GIT’s efforts?  We would love to hear from you!  If you have any questions, ideas, thoughts, or suggestions, please feel free to contact anyone from the task force!  This blog is maintained by Nick Salter nicholas.p.salter@hofstra.edu

Return Home here!

One of our GIT goals over these two years is to create and share I-O content.  The thinking is that by making it easier for Introduction to Psychology textbook authors and publishers to include I-O content, more will do it.  As one of our first steps, the task force, working with the Education and Training Committee and the Textbook Subcommittee, has updated our collection of 1-page summaries on I-O topics to include a Creative Commons license.  What is a Creative Commons License? A Creative Commons license lets licensees know they may use this material in whole or in part; in exchange, we ask users to share a few pieces of information: give appropriate credit (we provide a suggested citation), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. In short, the summaries are offered for use and modification by interested teachers, textbook authors, publishers, and others. In addition, SIOP is offering boilerplate content for an introductory-level textbook chapter ...

It seems that the SIOP membership is excited for GIT! After the first GIT Blog post, we have received a lot of positive feedback from SIOP members.  People are enthusiastic about this new initiative, supportive of its success, and most of all: interested to know “how can I help?”  SIOP members want to see I-O Psychology featured in Introduction to Psychology textbooks, and they want to help make it happen. Talk with Faculty who Teach Introduction to Psychology: Do any of your colleagues currently teach the class?  Do they include any I-O content in the course? If not, you can start by just asking them why they don’t.   Many instructors don’t include I-O because they believe it is “less important” than other areas of Psychology.  But you can remind your colleagues about how in-demand our field is; US News and World Report recently listed I-O as the #2 best science job, #19 best STEM job, ...

Welcome to the Getting I-O into Intro Textbooks (GIT SIOP) Task Force Blog! One of the initiatives of Talya Bauer’s new SIOP presidency is to include I-O Psychology into Intro Psyc Textbooks.  Currently, very few Intro Psyc textbooks include the topic, which contributes to a general lack of awareness of our field by many.  Therefore, the Getting I-O into Intro Textbooks (GIT SIOP) Task Force was created.  Chaired by Joe Allen (University of Nebraska Omaha), members of the task force include Georgia Chao (Michigan State University), Jen Gibson (Fors Marsh Group), Deborah DiazGranados (Virginia Commonwealth University), Roni Reiter-Palmon (University of Nebraska Omaha), and Nick Salter (Hofstra University). The formal charge of this task force (written by Talya Bauer) is as follows: The overarching task force goal is to increase the awareness and inclusion of IO psyc ...