Schedule
Keynote Speakers
Leading HR Research and Practice in the Next Decade: I/O Psychology at the CrossroadsWayne Cascio
University of Colorado, Denver
Sparked by new technologies, particularly the Internet, the corporation is undergoing a radical transformation that is nothing less than a new industrial revolution. This time around, the revolution is reaching every corner of the globe and in the process, rewriting the rules laid down by 20th-century Industrial-Age giants. The 21st-century corporation is, in many ways, the polar opposite of its predecessors.
Many factors are driving change, but none is more important than the rise of Internet technologies. The 21st-century corporation must adapt itself to management via the Web. It must be predicated on constant change, not stability; organized around networks, not rigid hierarchies; built on shifting partnerships and alliances, not self-sufficiency; and constructed on technological advantages, not bricks and mortar. Its global, it's about speed, and the challenges it poses to I/O psychology have never been greater.
What do We Know About the Psychological Make-up of Entrepreneurs? Towards Developing a New Field of Inquiry for I/O Psychology
Michael Frese
University of Giessen, Germany
Entrepreneurship research most recently puts the perception and exploitation of opportunity into the foreground. This is a useful definition of entrepreneurship. Such a conceptualization has a number of psychological implications. What are opportunities? How can they be used? What relationship exists to the more traditional research on initiative, taking charge, innovation, and other areas? What kind of action strategies do entrepreneurs use to actually accomplish the understanding of opportunities and their exploitation?
Bringing psychology into entrepreneurship improves entrepreneurship research. The other way around, bringing entrepreneurship research into industrial and organizational psychology, will also improve work and organizational psychology. Entrepreneurship is an important area because 1) It is important to understand the relationship between individuals and organizations, and the most important issue is indeed how individual make and design organizations when they first start them. 2) Entrepreneurs are sometimes seen as being the most important factors to contribute to innovations and to make adaptations in developed, but particularly in underdeveloped economies. 3) The number of entrepreneurs seems to be increasing and quite clearly it is mostly entrepreneurial units that increase the number of jobs in societies. 4) With the changes at work even employees will be forced to think much more entrepreneurially, even when they are employees of large organizations.
My discussion provides a summary of psychological approaches to entrepreneurship in such topics as personality, cognitive ability, human capital, cognitions, actions, motivation, leadership, environment, networks, the entrepreneurial process, innovation, and national culture to understand better how psychology can predict success and starting a business in the area of entrepreneurship.
The Changing of Nature of Validity and the Validity Continuum
Frank Landy
Landy Litigation Support Group
There has been an evolution of validity designs from the simple single organizational study of the early years to complex meta-analyses, transportability studies and validity generalization. I will discuss the concept of a validity continuum running from the concrete to the abstract in which an investigator can gather several different types of data in order to examine validity inferences. The changing nature of work makes the possibility of the "traditional" criterion-related validity design less and less likely. As a result, I-O psychologists will need to adapt to this change in the nature of work by combining data in creative ways to test the hypothesis of a relationship between assessment scores and performance.
The Next Horizon for Meso Research in I
John Mathieu
University of Connecticut
A little more than a decade ago, House, Rousseau and their colleagues advanced the notion of the meso-research that is integrative and spans levels of analysis. I will argue that this truly was a paradigm shifting moment that is sweeping our fields. In this talk I will briefly review what the meso paradigm really is (and is not!)—and then I will seek to "break the frame" and identify a number of looming challenges for research and practice alike. In short, meso is messy....and I advocate it become even more so.
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