The SIOP Exchange

To Judge or Not to Judge: How to Reach Logical Conclusions

By Maria Collar, SIOP Blogger

No matter how successful we are at treating others fairly, there will always be an occasion in which someone feels that they were wronged or treated unfairly. When an employee feels their rights were abridged or policies were not applied consistently, it is essential to respond to the concerns in a sensible, comprehensive and objective manner. It is the investigation process that will permit complying with regulations, and a good thorough investigation will help avoid claims of discrimination.

Training or Selection: Battle for the Budget

By Adam Hilliard, SIOP Blogger

A few weeks ago I had a kickoff at a client site with a project team that included the regional HR staffing director and corporate training manager.  In a side conversation, we had an opportunity to talk shop about other projects and they brought up their recent budget planning and how it had always seemed they were jockeying for each other’s slice of the pie.

“How would you distribute our budget percent between our departments, Adam?  Are great employees born or made?”  This clearly was not a question I thought would bode well for me. When possible, in the world of consulting, you try to deliver win-wins, as every contact is a potential ally down the road.  After cracking a few jokes about knowing the limits of my scope and moving on, I gave it some thought on the flight home.

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?”