About The Editors
Steve W. J. Kozlowski
Steve W. J. Kozlowski, PhD, is a world class scholar and distinguished university professor at the University of South Florida.. He is a recognized expert in the areas of dynamic multilevel organizational systems theory and computational process theorizing; team leadership and team effectiveness; and learning, development, and adaptation. The goal of his programmatic research is to generate actionable theory, research-based principles, and deployable tools to develop adaptive individuals, teams, and organizations. His research has generated over $11M in funded work and is, or has been, supported by the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), among others. He has produced over 500 articles, books, chapters, reports, and presentations; his work has been cited over 46,000 times; and his impact is ranked among the top 2% of all scientists in the world (Ioannidis, Boyack, & Baas, 2020). Dr. Kozlowski is a recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award and the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups.
Michael T. Braun
Michael Braun is an associate professor in Management at DePaul University. He teaches courses in management, data ethics, and training and career development. Before joining DePaul in 2019, Braun taught courses in industrial and organizational psychology at the University of South Florida. Braun’s research focuses on emergent leadership, team cohesion, team knowledge emergence and decision making, and modeling multilevel dynamics. His research articles have been published in numerous journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, and the Journal of Vocational Behavior. He is also the recipient of several awards, including the 2013 Organizational Research Method Best Paper Award, the 2015 Owens Scholarly Achievement Award, and the 2017 Journal of Business and Psychology Reviewer of the Year Award. In addition to his work in academia, Braun also works for Starling Trust Sciences, an applied behavioral sciences technology company, where he has been conducting sociometric data collection and analysis, as well as leading survey development and psychometric assessment, since 2016.
Gudella Grote
Gudela Grote has been associate editor of the journal Safety Science and is currently member of the editorial board of several journals, such Journal of Applied Psychology and Academy of Management Review. She has published widely on topics in organizational behavior, human factors, human resource management, and safety management. She has worked with companies such as the Swiss Railways and Swiss Re and with public organizations, especially regulatory agencies. Gudela Grote has been Head of the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zürich and President of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology. She is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and member of the Swiss National Research Council. Together with Prof. Bruno Staffelbach (University of Lucerne) she publishes the "Schweizer Human Relations-Barometer," a biennially representative survey of employees in Switzerland. Since 2020, she is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and since 2024 Co-Chair of the Thinking Ahead on Societal Change (TASC) Platform associated with the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
Rick Guzzo
Rick co-leads Mercer’s Workforce Sciences Institute, a research and innovation center. In addition to R&D responsibilities, Rick delivers data-based advisory work primarily to large, global clients on a wide range of workforce issues such as performance and productivity, talent retention, leadership development, well-being, and diversity. Rick has published four books and dozens of professional articles and book chapters. Recent publications include “How big data matters“ (2016, in Big Data at Work: The Data Science Revolution and Organizational Psychology), and “Workforce readiness in times of change: Employer perspectives” (2019, in Workforce Readiness). Prior to joining Mercer Rick was a professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland and before that at New York University. He earned a BS degree at The Ohio State University and a PhD at Yale University. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He is based in Washington, DC.
Richard N. Landers
Richard N. Landers, PhD, is a professor of psychology, and holds the John P. Campbell Distinguished Professorship of Industrial-Organizational Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. Landers’s research concerns the use of innovative technologies in assessment, employee selection, adult learning, and research methods. Recent topics have included big data, game-based learning, game-based assessment, gamification, unproctored Internet-based testing, mobile devices, virtual reality, and online social media.
Sharon K. Parker
Sharon K. Parker is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor in Organizational Behaviour in the Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University. Sharon is a world-leading researcher on the topic of work design, as well as other topics such as proactivity, mental health and job performance. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, Australian Academy of Social Sciences and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Douglas Reynolds
Doug Reynolds, PhD, is a globally recognized industrial-organizational psychologist focused on research and practice of technology-enhanced workplace assessment. Doug’s roles include advisor, author, coach, executive, and board member. He specializes in the use of workplace assessment to enhance leadership performance and organizational effectiveness. For nearly 30 years, Doug held various leadership roles in DDI’s assessment and technology teams. His work has informed the design, implementation, and defensibility of a wide range of workplace assessment and diagnostic tools.
Deborah E. Rupp
Deborah E. Rupp, PhD, joined the George Mason faculty Fall 2019. She was formerly Professor and William C. Byham Chair in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Research Integrity Officer at Purdue University. She has been a Visiting Professor at Singapore Management University, University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, and Illinois Institute of Technology. Her research, consulting, and expert testimony expertise span the areas of adverse impact and employment discrimination; organizational justice and corporate social responsibility; as well as issues surrounding job analysis, testing, assessment, and recruitment/selection by organizations. Her research has been cited in U.S. Supreme Court proceedings, and she has consulted to myriad organizations around the world. Rupp is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). She has published seven books and 140 papers and chapters, and her work has appeared in numerous journals.
Mo Wang
Dr. Mo Wang is a University Distinguished Professor and the Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair at the Warrington College of Business at University of Florida. He is also the Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives, Department Chair of the Management Department, and the Director of Human Resource Research Center at University of Florida. To date, Mo has published more than 210 peer-reviewed journal articles, 36 book chapters, and 6 books. He is known for his research on retirement and older worker employment, occupational health psychology, expatriate and newcomer adjustment, leadership and team processes, and advanced quantitative methodologies; he has won numerous awards for the research in these areas.
