California - Some of the world’s top workplace scientists and thought leaders will be among the nearly 4,200 workplace psychologists attending the 31st Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology April 14-16 at the Anaheim Hilton and Anaheim Convention Center.
The conference, which will focus on the latest scientific research on current issues and trends in the workplace, will include more than 800 symposia, practitioner forums, panel presentations, posters and other sessions,
The three-day event will feature a wide range of workplace topics including women in leadership roles, counterproductive behavior and workplace deviance, turnover and retention, an aging workforce, building stronger work teams, talent management strategies, the impact of cultural differences in the workplace, performance management practices, use of Big Data, pre-employment testing, hiring, social media, women’s interests, and work and family issues.
To view an online program of all presentations go to www.siop.org/programsearch.
SIOP President Steve Kozlowski of Michigan State University will open the three-day conference Thursday (April 14) morning with the keynote address. Also, during the opening session, SIOP will present its annual recognition awards and announce its new Fellows, men and women who have made significant contributions to the field of IO psychology.
Laszlo Bock, Google’s vice president of people operations and author of the best-selling book “Work Rules: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How Your Live and Lead,” will deliver the closing keynote talk on Saturday (April 16).
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The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) is an international organization of nearly 8,000 industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologists who study and apply scientific principles concerning workplace productivity, motivation, leadership and engagement. SIOP’s mission is to enhance human well-being and performance in organizational and work settings by promoting the science, practice and teaching of I-O psychology. For more information about SIOP visit www.siop.org.
Titles of some presentations:
. Team Dynamics (Space Travel), Team Research in Spaceflights
. Employee selection in the digital age: social media’s challenges
. Organizational culture at Amazon: Should it be emulated or denigrated?
. Digging Deeper: Advances in Dark Personality Research
. Performance Ratings are Broken; How can they be fixed?
. Managing Culture Differences of Merging Companies is Crucial to M&A Success
. Counterproductivity at Work: Liars, Aggressors, and Manipulators
. A Survivor’s Guide to Age Discrimination
. Mending the Leaky Pipeline: Retention Interventions for Women In STEM
. Conducting Criminal Background Checks…Without Breaking the Law
. State Paranoia at Work: Transgender Work Experiences
. Connecting Social Identities to Well-Being in the Workplace
. Attitudinal Trends toward Working Women and Mothers
. Workplace Attitudes toward Millennials: Myths and Insights
. How Teachers Teach Diversity During Times of Turbulent Social Issues
. Understanding and Overcoming Resistance to Teleworking
. A Symposium. When Coaching Goes Wrong: Handling Real Life Cases.
. Structured Interviews: Asking the Right Questions Leads to Better Hiring
. Workforce Analytics: How Big Data Can be used to Make Effective Decisions
. How Companies are Using Background Checking: Recommended Practices
. Workplace Obesity Discrimination
