The SIOP Exchange

Guest Blogger: Thank You, Anna Clark!

The SIOP Exchange crew would like to thank the blog's recent guest blogger and LEading Edge Consortium speaker, Anna Clark, for her time Thursday, August 30. Clark answered questions and comments from several SIOP members on the topic of environmental sustainability in the workplace as part of the SIOP Electronic Communications Committee's "Guest Blogger" series.

If you would like to read the questions and answers, view Clark's post here. If you would like to learn more about environmental sustainability at work, including a full presentation by Anna Clark, register for the SIOP Leading Edge Consortium. You can get a full agenda, list of speakers and presentations, and other information on the LEC homepage.

The committee plans to invite more live blogging guests in the coming months to be available for questions and comments from readers on various topics important to the I-O community. Stay tuned for more guest posts!

Thinking like Steve Jobs: Thinking Differently

By Manisha Bajaj, SIOP Blogger

What makes Apple, one of the market leaders in terms of innovation today?

In this blog, I examine five guiding principles that seem to increase our capacity for innovation, as exemplified by innovators such as Steve Jobs.

I also debate how these principles can be applied as we conduct research on innovation using I-O Psychology approaches, for developing theory and practice. I invite you to think through these factors with me and provide your comments.

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:

“Typical” Future Workers: Aged? Virtual? Global? Monitored? Transient? Robots?

By Carrie Zapka, SIOP Blogger

Think back to a typical workplace in 1992, twenty years ago. What were the hot I-O topics then? Now imagine 10, 20, or even 50 years from now. What will the new hot topics be? The Jan-Feb 2012 issue of The Futurist, a magazine from the World Future Society (WFS), and a YouTube video from odesk.com called The Future of Work pose some interesting possibilities.

Compared to workers today, workers of the future might be…

Everyone Has a Reading List…

By Christopher Salute, SIOP Blogger

Everyone Has a Reading List…But who has a movie list?

Of course I read. I have to stay relevant. So, I find my colleagues and professors’ reading lists very helpful. I even have a few essentials that I like to give to my students. And, I’ve also (don’t tell anyone) taken some books off of their lists, too!

But, do you know what I find a lot more entertaining than my reading list? My movie list! There are so many I-O related scenarios in movies and literature. Forget business, in general. I don’t even want to get started. “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” (great movie, even better book!) was not just a murder mystery, but a forensic finance thriller! “Wall Street” and “Boiler Room” are both great for business ethics lessons. Office Space is an I-O Psychologists’ nightmare! “So, what would you say….you do here?”