The Joyce and Robert Hogan Award for Personality and Work Performance recognizes a written work that best exemplifies excellence and innovation in applied personality research in the field of I-O psychology.
Nominated research should advance the understanding of the role of personality in job performance. The written work can take various forms, for example, journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, conference proceedings, or online publications. The award is open to scholarly research, research reviews, or in-company research. Only works produced from January 1, 2022, onward will be considered for the award.
Award recipients receive a plaque and a $5,000 cash prize (to be split in the case of multiple authors).
About Joyce and Robert Hogan
Joyce and Robert Hogan pioneered the use of personality assessment for employment selection in the 1970’s, at a time when professional psychology was heavily behavioristic and anti-personality. They showed that well-validated personality measures predict performance as well as IQ measures but don’t discriminate. This award is intended to stimulate further innovation in applied personality assessment.
Call for Nominations
Nomination Guidelines
Nominations may be submitted by any SIOP member. Self-nominations are welcome.
- Only written works with a print publication date in the previous three calendar years (2022-2024) are eligible for the award. Online first publication dates should not be used in determining a work’s eligibility for the award (except for works that are only published online).
- Written works with multiple authors are acceptable. At least one author must be a SIOP member.
- If there are multiple authors, the names of all authors must be entered during the online nomination process. Please ensure that all authors in your nomination have current information in their siop.org profiles. All non-members should create an account at siop.org (creating accounts is not equivalent to applying for membership).
- The nomination package should include the written work and a nomination letter that addresses how the work meets the criteria noted below.
- The nomination letter and the nominated work must be submitted online by the nominator.
- When submitting the nomination materials, nominators will also be asked if the nominee(s) are being investigated, or have been found responsible, for misconduct prohibited in SIOP’s Anti-Harassment Policy and to provide a brief explanation if this is the case.
Nomination deadline is June 30, 2025
Evaluation Criteria
Nominations will be evaluated in terms of the following criteria:
- The research advances the understanding of how personality is related to competent job performance.
- The research has a sound technical and scientific basis.
- The research illustrates excellence and innovation in the field of I-O psychology.
Administrative Procedures
- At least five members of the SIOP Awards Subcommittee will review and evaluate each nomination package.
- The Awards Subcommittee will recommend an award winner to the SIOP Executive Board.
- The Executive Board may either accept or reject the recommendation of the Awards Subcommittee but may not substitute a nominee of its own.
- In the absence of a nominee that is deemed deserving of the award by both the Awards Subcommittee and the Executive Board, the award may be withheld.
Current Award Recipients
Award Type
Achievement & Best Paper Awards
