SIOP welcomes its contributing bloggers! This group of SIOP members will contribute regularly to the content of the Exchange on various topics related to the field of I-O psychology. Continue reading for more about their specific areas of interest. To read posts by all of SIOP's bloggers, click here.
Manisha Bajaj
I am Manisha, a PhD student at California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco. Being born and raised in an expat community in Dubai (UAE) gave me the opportunity to interact with people from all over the world and learn from them – my key learning has been to live my passions. So far I have completed a Master's in Psychology, trained to be a Pastry Chef, am an avid scuba diver, and am currently pursuing my biggest passions: a PhD in organizational psychology. In the past, I have worked as a performance management consultant for Fortune 500 organizations helping them align corporate performance goals with individual performance goals and helping them meet these goals. Some of the other projects that I have lead include competency mapping, enhancing employee engagement, and employee ideas programs. The employee ideas program was the most fascinating for me and has led to my current research interests on innovation. Organizations that create innovative products, manage their employees in an innovative manner and have innovative business models particularly interest me. I hope to talk more about innovation in organizations in my blog posts!
Nathan A. Bowling
I am an associate professor of psychology at Wright State University who earned a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Central Michigan University (2005). I have published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on such topics as job satisfaction, counterproductive work behavior, and occupational stress. My research has been published in a number of top journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Human Performance. I serve on several editorial boards and am a principal reviewer for the Journal of Applied Psychology. My research has been funded by the SIOP Foundation.
Ashley D. Bugeja
I am currently finishing my PhD in I-O psychology at Northern Illinois University where I teach psychology to undergraduates. Before coming to NIU, I earned my Master’s degree in I-O from Roosevelt University and later worked in human resources in both the hotel and automotive distribution industries. I also have experience in external management consulting for various organizations. My research focuses on leadership development, gender and diversity issues, and aging in the workplace. As a consequence, I have found myself gaining expertise about legal and ethical compliances such as EEO laws. I enjoy keeping up to speed on legal cases and political issues that have implications on the workplace.
Jennifer Bunk
I am currently an associate professor of psychology at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. My research interests include workplace incivility and work-life conflict. Involving students in the research process is a very big, and rewarding, part of my research program. I have taught research methods and intro I-O at the undergraduate level and industrial psychology at the graduate level. I have experience designing and teaching online courses – including I-O Psychology – and am passionate about creating online course experiences that effectively utilize technology to achieve positive learning outcomes and a high level of student engagement. I also have experience implementing academically-related websites and blogs. In my spare time, I enjoy yoga, cooking, and travel, as well as spending time with my husband, son, and 95-lb black lab.
Humanitarian Work Psychology – International and Emerging Perspectives
Joy Calleja, Judith Marasigan de Guzman, Alex Gloss, Jeff Godbout
The authors are four PhD students from the Philippines and the United States. Judith Marasigan de Guzman and Joy Calleja are studying Social-Organizational Psychology at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. Joy is Director for Research at the Ateneo Center for Organization Research and Development and a faculty member in Ateneo’s department of psychology. Judith is a fellow of the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund of the Tokyo Foundation. Jeffrey Godbout and Alexander Gloss serve as coordinators for the Global Task Force for Humanitarian Work Psychology. Jeffrey is studying at Massey University in New Zealand while Alexander is at North Carolina State University.
Vivian Wing-Sheung Chan
I am a PhD student in the industrial-organizational psychology program at the University of Waterloo, Canada after obtaining Bachelor of Science (honours) degree at the University of Toronto. My research interest lies in individual differences, including emotional intelligence and the Big Five factors, in understanding different types of leaders. One of my main research projects investigates the psychological profiles of entrepreneurs (i.e., innovative leaders)! My applied experience includes training development and I am the co-project manager and facilitator of emotional intelligence workshops for many Master?s students. I am also one of the training developers of a team leadership workshop, where I conducted tasks such as job analysis, content design, and podcast production. Aside from spending time on research and applied projects, I can be found watching talks on TED.com, attending cultural festivities in Toronto with friends, and going to Chinese restaurants for tasting dim-sum with family.
Josh Denton
I am president of Denton Consulting Group, LLC and based in Duluth, MN. Excitement is what I describe when consulting with employees and leaders using psychological and business principles. However, the real reward is for employees and leaders to develop long-term strategies to make their organizational and personal lives better. My master's degree is in organizational psychology. I focused on call center pre-employment screening, with attention to the variety of assessments administered, and the predicted performance outcomes for those applicants. Currently, I am writing a dissertation asking the question: Do leaders utilize different temporal thinking perspectives according to their leadership style? In essence, leaders who are described as being one leadership style will use different temporal thinking perspectives compared to leaders described as being another leadership style. In my free time, I enjoy being with my wife and daughter, and can be found playing hockey with my two black labs.
Drs. David and Cathy DuBois
Dr. Cathy L. Z. DuBois
I am an Associate Professor at Kent State University where I teach human resource management and sustainability. My sustainability research focuses on the roles of sustainability managers and human resource management in embedding sustainability within organizations, motivating sustainability behavior change, and sustainable work design. I am an active participant in the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), and serve as a member of the AASHE Advisory Council and as a STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System) technical advisor. I also participate in a number of sustainability professional groups and consult in sustainability and HRM issues. A winner of numerous teaching awards, I teach sustainability at ESC Rennes School of Business in France and present at workshops on integrating sustainability across the curriculum. I also publish articles in a variety of HRM areas, highlighting a range of workplace gender issues and e-learning. I have presented my research at a number of international conferences and published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, the Academy of Management Review, and Psychology of Women Quarterly, among others.
Dr. David DuBois
I am an organizational psychologist with a current focus on social design for environmental sustainability. For the past 20 years, I have served as principal investigator on projects that span the range, from training and instructional design, to job and task analyses, leadership, job expertise and job knowledge, personnel security, social design, and environmental sustainability. I have done work with the US Marine Corps, US Army, the US Navy, the Office of Naval Research, the Department of Defense, Loral Corporation, Bell Atlantic, Bell South, the US General Accounting Office, the City of Fairfield Iowa, and Genetic ID, among others. I founded two companies and two non-profit organizations. I am an adjunct faculty at Kent State University, teaching courses on sustainability for their MBA program, and serve as a technical advisor for the AASHE (American Association for Sustainability in Higher Education) STARS program. I am currently the director of research and development for True Market Solutions, a new venture bringing sustainable business practices to small and medium enterprises. My doctorate is in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Minnesota.
I am a consultant with Select International. I currently work with a wide variety of organizations helping to design, manage, and implement highly valid, legally defensible, cost-effective selection systems. These projects include web-based assessments, online applicant tracking systems, high volume corporate expansions, behavioral interviewing, and motivational fit assessments spanning across the industries of direct healthcare, pharma, manufacturing, mining, retail, logistics, and call centers. More informally, I enjoy finding ways to tie pop culture to HR, and write most of my blog content designed toward bringing the field of I-O into more common recognition. I also have an interest in case law and the EEOC, adverse impact, and discrimination lawsuits.
Luvenia Jackson
I am currently an industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology doctoral learner and Associate Instructor for a local university. I completed my master's degree at Capella University in the same field. My undergraduate degree is in early childhood education. My employment history is comprised of teaching elementary students and working to assist adult students secure employment at an institution of higher learning. Therefore, I was responsible for networking with various employers, be it for profit or nonprofit organizations. With regard to blogging, this opportunity will be a first for me. The topics that interest me are topics on employment selection, employee performance, and employment justice.
Zachary Parker
I am a first year graduate student in East Carolina University’s Master’s psychology program. The recession began as I finished my final year in undergrad and I saw friends lose jobs and careers as whole companies folded as fingers began to point at possible sources. The damage had been done, my friends were having trouble moving on and I was too. In the interim between undergrad and grad school I became interested in people like Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford. Realizing these men were close to my age when they became successful has instilled in me a curiosity of how entrepreneurs are psychologically equipped to thrive on change for the benefit of themselves and others.
Generational Gaps in Employee Management
Christopher Salute
I have a BA in psychology from Siena College, an MBA from Molloy College, and I am a PhD student in Hofstra University’s applied organizational psychology program with an expected completion date of May 2015. I am an adjunct professor at both Molloy College and Touro University as well as the CEO of Bold Media Incorporated, a privately held internet consulting firm. I have worked in various training and development capacities for companies such as Yahoo! Inc. and KBC Financial. My current research interests include generational differences in selection, training, and development of new employees and the use of new media technology in employee management.
Karin Soweid
I am a social entrepreneur making a positive impact and sustainable contribution for emerging women professionals in the Middle East region’s workforce. Based in the Middle East for more than seven years, my work has involved extensive travel, programmatic review, training and project implementation in locations throughout Eastern Africa, the Middle East, the Gulf, Europe and the United States. I have worked for a diversity of international organizations where I have led large-scale human capital projects in more than twenty countries throughout. I am currently pioneering my own consulting practice designed to serve women professionals as it relates to their achievement and success in the workplace. SAWA (Supporting the Advancement of Women’s Achievement) Consulting provides skilled coaching, training and valid assessment techniques, focusing on the balance between business measures that drive and sustain organizational performance as much as the social forces that challenge individual and team performance in the workplace. I am a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, having earned my Bachelor’s degree in the dual degree major of international affairs and French. I am also a graduate of the University of Denver’s prestigious Josef Korbel School of International Studies graduate school program, having earned my Master’s degree in international administration. I am currently nearing completion of my doctoral studies in Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology with Capella University’s Harold Abel School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Thomas H. Stone
I recieved my Ph D from the University of Minnesota in I-O psychology and have been a Professor of Management at Oklahoma State University since 1989. I have also served on the faculties of the University of Iowa, York and McMaster Universities in Ontario, Canada. My research spans several areas, including performance appraisal, academic integrity, leadership, decision-making and absenteeism and has published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences and others. I have served as division chair for both Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior in the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada and I am currently associate editor of Career Development International.
Mahesh Subramony
I am a faculty member in the human resource management (HRM) area in the management department at Northern Illinois University. My prior academic appointment was as an assistant professor of industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. I received my Ph.D. in I-O psychology from Central Michigan University and an M.A. degree in applied psychology from the University of Delhi, India. Prior to joining academics, I worked for two Fortune 500 companies in their human resources functions and bring this experience to bear in my teaching and research. My research interests are in the field of strategic HRM. Specifically, I am interested in examining the reasons why organizations make various types of human resource investments, and the processes though which these investments affect employee, customer, and financial outcomes. My articles have appeared in several scholarly journals including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management.
Paul Thoresen
I have a Master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the inaugural class of 1998 at the University of Northern Iowa. I now have 10 years of survey research experience in the for-profit sector, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions. My interests are organizational assessment, job satisfaction, and utilizing employee engagement to increase organizational effectiveness. By blogs will be on topics near and dear to me such as: Job Attitudes, Measurement, Methodology, Motivation, Organization Development, and Training. Currently, I work in Global Survey Research for the Minnesota-based consulting firm Questar. I also have experience in recruitment, interviewing, selection, training, on-boarding and organization development. When not pursuing professional interests, I enjoy music, movies, reading, technology, and time with my family. For fun I volunteer with our regional OD association, the Minnesota Organization Development Network (MNODN).
Idea Nut
Carrie Anne Zapka
I am a microbiologist in R&D at GOJO Industries by day and an I-O student by night. I have degrees in education (BSED), biology (BS) and chemistry (BS/MS) and have previously worked in manufacturing and as a teacher. I believe in the potential for creativity and imagination to catalyze positive change and that everyone deserves to have their ideas considered. I am pursuing an I-O education out of a desire to become more effective at facilitating the transformation of ideas into tangible results that benefit individuals, organizations, and society. I am most interested in idea and knowledge management, the fuzzy front end of innovation, mass collaboration, transdisciplinary studies, and future studies. In addition to these areas, my blog posts will share what it is like to be a non-traditional I-O student and encourage discussions about current perceptions of and future possibilities for I-O.
