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2012 Conference DVDs Now Available
Re-experience some of the most popular sessions from the 2012 SIOP conference—order a conference DVD!
DVD recordings are now available for purchase here. The 2012 SIOP Conference Recordings DVD-ROM includes:
The presentations available on the DVD are:
By Mahesh Subramony, SIOP Blogger
In December 1912, a group of managers with different backgrounds, but with a common interest in systemizing the discipline dealing with the ‘handling of employees’ formed the Employment Managers’ Association in Boston. Their aims included “to discuss problems of employes (sic); their training and their efficiency”, and “to compare experiences which shall throw light on the failures and successes in conducting the employment department (Bloomfield, 1916; p.77). Within the next decade, similar associations had formed in most large cities in the US, and the profession of employment management – a precursor of modern day HRM – was born.
By Manisha Bajaj, SIOP Blogger
What’s going on?
What contributes to the success of smartphones such as iPhones and Droid? Is it their product design or is it the applications (Apps) that you can buy on them? Or is it both? Putting this another way…
By Carrie Zapka, SIOP Blogger
Social Scientists Wade Into the Tweet Stream, an article in the September 30, 2011 issue of Science, is a stimulating read. The author shared recent studies that mined Twitter data for insights into human behavior.
Peter Dodds and colleagues from the University of Vermont, for example, applied a novel method to analyze years of tweets from around the world. The Twitter data suggest a global decay in mood, a decrease in “average happiness” level, which they determined by comparing the relative usage of common words associated with positive or negative moods. Their results indicate that the world is not as happy today as it was in 2009!
