- Why I'm Proud to Be An I/O Psychologist. I/O psychologists worldwide share the sentiment of these words offered by Mike Campion.
- What is I/O Psychology? An interesting look at the field from Samuel B. Pond, III.
- What Sorts of Salaries Do I/O Psychologists Earn? A survey of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) members sheds a little light on incomes for such a career, as of 1997.
- Work in the 21st Century: Implications for Selection. One of Karen May's excellent articles on the implications of a rapidly changing work world for a key topic in I/O psychology.
- Hiring Tips from Workforce Online magazine.
- Common Interviewing Mistakes that interviewers should be careful to avoid...10 tips from Workforce Online magazine.
- Workplace Discrimination and Affirmative Action
- Be sure to check out Dr. McCarthy's review of key court cases (with links) listed in the top section of this web page!
- Facts About Employment Discrimination
- Affirmative Action: A Review of Psychological and Behavioral Research, which offers outstanding, thorough, empirical coverage of this topic.
- Changing Trends in the Legal Analysis of Affirmative Action
- Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Brief Overview of the ADA
- ADA Guidance from the EEOC
- Practical Advice for Avoiding ADA Legal Nightmares from your selection processes (even if you thought you were doing things right): "When it Comes to the ADA, What You Know About Your Employees Can Hurt You"
- ADA Documents
- More ADA Documents
- Are people infected with HIV covered under ADA even if they have no AIDS-related symptoms? U.S. Supreme Court's 1998 5-4 decision in Bragdon v. Abbott
- ADA's scope narrowed by Court's 1999 ruling in Albertsons v. Kirkingburg. Summaries can be found from ABC News and Legal News.
- Sexual Harassment
- Defining Sexual Harassment
- Sexual Harassment: Myths & Realities
- Confusion from the Courts About What Constitutes Sexual Harassment is a Time magazine cover story (3/23/98) about cases that are not necessarily typical, but have pushed the limits of the law into confusion.
- Answers to Several Common Questions About Sexual Harassment
- Same-Sex Harassment: after first addressing sexual harassment a mere 12 years earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court recently faced a new twist--what if the accused and the victim are the same sex? Lower courts disagreed whether sexual harassment laws apply to same-sex cases, but in 1998 our highest court tackled the issue in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore.
- Case Description and Arguments for Each Side, from MSNBC.
- Further Description of the Case in a brief Washington Post story.
- The decision is in!...and on the front page of papers across the country.
- Unanamous ruling: What are its implications? A closer look at what this ruling means, courtesy of ABC News.
- The actual text of the decision
- Employer liability addressed in 3 1998 U.S. Supreme Court rulings that the Washington Post described as having "enormous impact", and even the blur the distinction between "hostile environment" and "quid pro quo" harassment
- Burlington Industries v. Ellerth -- threats if don't succomb to sexual advances, but didn't actually carry out threats when she refused . . . is that sexual harassment? Arguments made before the court.
- Faragher v. Boca Raton, FL -- hostile environment sexual harassment claim, but employer unaware of the harassment by one of its supervisors . . . is the employer liable?
- Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District -- Is school system liable if administrators unaware of sexual harassment by teacher?
- Brief Review of the 1998 Supreme Court Rulings
- Work in the 21st Century: Implications for Job Analysis. Another of Karen May's interesting articles.
- Job Analysis Information, particularly related to the Common Metric Questionnaire, which is a worker-oriented job analysis instrument developed as an alternative to the PAQ/PMPQ.
- Dictionary of Occupational Titles, which offers job analysis information for thousands of job titles.
- The Changing World of Compensation is a thought-provoking look at how traditional compensation strategies conflict with many critical values held by organizations of today and the future.
- Work in the 21st Century: Implications for Compensation. Karen May pens yet another worthwhile read...and this time it's on how I/O psychologists can help us better respond to compensation challenges arising now and tomorrow.
- Relation Between Personality and Performance
- Importance of Emotional Intelligence to Performance
- Neutralizing Workplace Stress: The physiology of human performance and organizational effectiveness.
- The Road to Burnout outlines five stages of job burnout, and offers prevention tips.
- Internet Age Boosts Productivity for Some, according to survey results from the Society for Human Resources Management.
- Downsizing Employers Fail to Upsize Profits
- A New (Old) Paradigm of High Performance is the title of an article discussing some keys to effective organizational change.
- Conducting Performance Appraisals: Overview & Keys to Effectiveness -- thanks to Edward Wertheim of Northeastern Univ. for these valuable notes.
- Regular Appraisals Spur Motivation, Help Retain Valued Workers
- Work in the 21st Century: Implications for Performance Appraisal. Another contemporary look at an I/O topic of established interest from Karen May.
- Conducting Positive Performance Reviews, Part 1 and Part 2, both from Workforce Online magazine.
- Politics of Performance Appraisals is an interesting summary by Edward Wertheim of the findings from the renown study by Longnecker, Sims, & Gioia (1987).
- Team Building & Training
- The Importance of Goals to the Success of Work Teams
- Psychologists Needed to Retrain Employees -- downsizing and on-the-job training are made easier with psychologists' expertise.
- Secrets of Great Groups, according to Warren Bennis.
- Most Effective Motivational Tool: Money or Praise? A look at the claims for each, wrapped up with a "ten best" list for ways to motivate employees.
- Management by Objectives (MBO): what is it? why might it fail? wherein lies its potential to increase motivation and productivity?
- Leadership Overview -- briefly touches on a variety of leadership issues.
- Leadership Guide -- an extensive collection of articles/chapters from Don Clark on a variety of key issues . . . it's leadership theory translated into practical terms useful to both new and experienced supervisors, or anyone else looking to lead more effectively.
- Essential Management Skills -- a series of articles by Gerard M. Blair which appeared in IEE Engineering Management Journal (1991-1993) and won an award from that journal.
- Aligning Actions and Values is crucial to effective leadership.
- Leadership Pages -- another collection of articles from Gerard M. Blair addressing various aspects and theories of leadership.
- Contingency Models of Leadership are summarized in this article.
- Charismatic Leadership is explored in this interesting article.
- Leader-Values is a site with several articles addressing leadership, covering a variety of perspectives.
- Rethinking Work and Family: A Catalyst for Organizational Change is an extensive 1996 report from a larger collaboration between researchers from MIT, the Family and Work Institute, and Artem's Management Consultants . . . along with folks from Xerox, Corning, and Tandem Computers, and thanks to the Ford Foundation's support.
- Work-Life Programs Reap Business Benefits
- Motivation & Productivity Gains: work-family efforts are good for individuals and companies
- Balancing Work & Family, Business Week's cover story on its Sept.16, '96 issue.
- Role of I-O in Work-Life Programs
- Working Mothers: Happy or Haggard?
- Easing Transition from Work to Family Life . . . some practical advice.
- BlueSuitMom.com is an extensive, practical resource one newspaper described as "one part business magazine, the other part Family Circle, another part CNN.com"
- Abstracts from Work-Family Interactions Literature
- Families and Work Institute is a national non-profit research, strategic planning, and consulting organization that conducts policy and worksite research on the changing workforce and changing family/personal lives.
- Work + Family Connection is a terrific clearinghouse for all sorts of work-family information.
- Bibliography for Work-Family Issues
- 10 Facts to Know About Workplace Violence
- Violence in the Workplace. Information from the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
- The Rockem-Sockem Workplace
- Combating Workplace Violence
- Proposed OSHA Guidelines for Workplace Violence Prevention (particularly at night retail establishments).
- Workplace Violence Paper from Guardian Security Services.
- Workplace Violence Bibliography, offering a listing of books and articles most libraries can get you on this topic.
Last updated: 4 April 2002
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