Dedicated Researchers • Highly-cited • Intellectually Curious
These are just a few of the words that describe the faculty members that make up the Organizational Psychology research area. Get to know each professor further by exploring their profiles.
Graduate students in the Organizational Psychology program at MSU regularly engage in interdisciplinary, collaborative research with faculty across the university. While these collaborations are many and varied, we highlight here a few of the faculty who have close ties and connections to our students.
Faculty also have led and served on numerous high profile professional committees (e.g., Conference program committees, task forces on current scientific issues, AI- based assessments, Personality Assessments, Open Science).
Faculty also regularly serve on the editorial boards of key journals: Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Performance, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Personnel Psychology, Training Research Journal, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Occupational Health Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Research in Occupational stress and Well Being, and Work, Aging and Retirement, Organizational Research Methods, Personnel Assessment and Decisions, Developmental Psychology, International Journal of Testing, Organizational Psychology Review, Journal of Personnel Psychology, International Journal of Selection and Assessment.
Our Organizational Psychology Faculty have written popular textbooks and edited leading volumes in our field. Here are some examples.
J. Kevin Ford
Learning in Organizations: An Evidence-Based Approach examines the variety of systematic approaches and strategies for learning and development used in the workplace through the implementation of formal training, guided instruction, developmental job experiences, and self-directed learning. The hallmark of Learning in Organizations is an emphasis on research evidence of what is and is not known about learning and learning strategies and the translation of that evidence to guide best practices in workplace learning and development.
Edited by Christopher D. Nye and James Rounds
Vocational Interests in the Workplace integrates past literature with contemporary theories to detail emerging issues to drive research on vocational interests and relationships with work behavior. The chapters in areas such as motivation and performance, diversity, and expertise propose new models and approaches that have direct implications for driving best practices.
Irvin Schonfeld and Daisy Chang
This comprehensive book draws from interdisciplinary research in various domains such as psychology, public health, preventive medicine, and epidemiology to derive frameworks that address ways to protect and promote health and well being. These frameworks have direct implications for reducing job stress and improving the quality of work life.
Edited by Eden King, Quinetta Roberson and Mikki Hebl
This volume describes and integrates research scholarship that advances our understanding of diversity and inclusion in organizations. Specifically, it features personal narratives of recognized experts in the field who have advanced understanding of gender at work in order to enhance understanding of the challenges and rewards of efforts at enhancing diversity.
Edited by Eden King, Quinetta Roberson and Mikki Hebl
Polarized attitudes around issues such as gender equality and immigration have not only dominated the media but have substantial impacts on workplaces. This volume pushes the field by raising the questions that need to be asked and by identifying areas that have received too little research attention. Chapters provide steps that need to be taken to boost social justice and egalitarian behaviors in the workplace.
Edited by J. Kevin Ford, J. Hollenbeck, and Ann Marie Ryan
This volume examines various perspectives regarding the meaning attached to work and its implications for understanding work behavior. The chapters introduce new concepts as well as framing issues in a way that encourages the reader to rethink how we study and think about people at work. In this way, new approaches for studying and measuring work behavior and their implications for improving work practices are highlighted.
Edited by Quinetta M. Roberson
The changing business environment requires a deeper understanding of diversity means and how diversity and inclusion issues are linked to organizational effectiveness. This volume brings experts across multiple disciplines to examine the concept of diversity, its effects, and the processes that underlie these effects. The chapters identify gaps in our current understandings and provides insights that drive directions for future research.
This book identifies the challenges and common pitfalls in designing and implementing globally standardized selection systems. Based on this analysis, choices regarding planning and implementing effective global staffing systems are provided leading to best practice strategies.