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Re-Experience SIOP 2012

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:

• 20 select presentations available (see list below)
• Audio synchronized with the speaker’s slide presentations
• MP3 audio files for your MP3 player to listen on the go!
• Files that are Mac and PC compatible

The presentations available on the DVD are:

Are you responsible for your organization's selection practices?

Brent J. Lyons, Doctoral Candidate
Organizational Psychology
Michigan State University 

We're conducting a survey regarding the nature of interviews and the job-seeking process. If you're interested in participating, please click here. The survey should take approximately 15 minutes to fill out. Take the survey for access to information on ways to increase diversity in hiring practices.

The HRM Value Blog

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.

IBM Announces First Female CEO: Has the glass ceiling been shattered... or just cracked?

By Ashley D. Bugeja, SIOP Blogger

In recent months, IBM released news  that spurred a great deal of interest across the globe. The Fortune 500 Company announced that Virginia M. Rometty, currently a senior vice president at IBM, has been elected IBM President and CEO. According to ABC News,  Rometty will be the first female CEO in the company’s prosperous 100-year history. Meanwhile, Rometty will join a small group of female CEOs of Fortune 500 Companies.

ABC News reports that when Rometty takes office in the start of the New Year the number of female CEOs of fortune 500 companies will reach a record at 18. This buzzing news poses a controversial question for Industrial/Organizational Psychologists - Has the glass ceiling been shattered?... Or just cracked?

Washington Post Discusses Wal-Mart vs. Dukes

The Washington Post "Conversations"  series posted a conversation this week discussing the Wal-Mart vs. Dukes case that has made headlines recently. Arguments in the case regarding discrimination against female workers at Wal-Mart began March 29. Marcia Greenberger of the National Women's Law Center and products liability defense attorney Matthew Cairns debated the case on The Washinton Post website here.

Questions discussed int he article revolve around numerous workplaces issues, such as the causes of differing pay between men and women:

"How is a fair average pay differential arrived at between men and women when women have shorter average length of employment because of a percentage that change to stay at home moms etc.? It seems like if one group by their own choice have different career statistics that would skew their average wage because of higher wages being related to longer length of service."

To read the answers given by Greenberger and Cairns, read the full story here.