INDUSTRIAL-ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Allison Brown Yost recently started working at Marriott International Headquarters (Bethesda, MD) in their Talent Management Analytics and Solutions group. She serves as an internal consultant, providing HR

analytics, program evaluation, test validation, and other applied research services to HR decision-makers.

Kaitlin Thomas was recently offered a fellowship at the Consortium Research Fellows Program! She will be stationed at the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral & Social Sciences worksite in Fort Belvoir, VA. They conduct research aimed at solving Army problems in performance, training, and retention.

NEW CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

SPRING 2014 NEWSLETTER

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Congratulations to Jessica Badger for successfully defending her dissertation, “The Formative Nature of Person-Environment Fit,” which investigates whether person-environment fit is reflective or formative and how this conceptualization affects the prediction of outcomes. The results of a survey of current employees from a variety of organizations indicate that fit should be treated as a formative construct. These findings suggest that multiple aspects of people and the envi-ronment should be considered in order to gain a complete understanding of per-son-environment fit.

Congratulations to Kaitlin Thomas for completing her second year project titled, “Gender Composition in Work Teams: A Balancing Act.” This study examined the impact of team gender composition on individual perceptions of inclusion, cohesion, trust, and conflict, and external ratings of team performance. Men and women reported the most positive reactions in gender-balanced teams and the least positive reactions in same-gender-predominant teams. Team performance did not differ by team composition.

Congratulations to Samuel Kaminsky for completing his second year project titled, “Career Choice & Calling: Integrating Calling & Social Cognitive Career Theory.” This study examined the extent to which a sense of calling affected career choice attitudes. Results suggest that calling provides unique predictive power beyond self-efficacy for career outcome expectations, interests, and goals. His study improves our un-derstanding of career choice attitudes and provides an improved frame-work for practitioners to draw on when mentoring students or develop-ing career support programs.

DISSERTATION DEFENSES

SECOND YEAR PROJECTS

SIOP 2014 Annual Conference 2

Media Recognition 3

New Traditions and Newlyweds 3

Recent Publications & Presentations 4

Research Updates 5

Donor Recognition 6

Other I/O Activities and OSSA Event 6-7

Research Discussion Series Schedule 7

I/O Program Fun 7

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

CONGRATULATIONS ON RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS!

Badger, J. M., Costanza, D. P., Blacksmith, N., & Severt, J. B. (2014, May). Testing the theory of shared experiences in generational differences. Poster to be presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu, HI.

Behrend, T. S., & Major, D. (2014, May). I-O psychology’s contributions to patching the STEM pipeline. Symposium to be presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organiza-tional Psychology, Honolulu, HI.

Behrend, T. S., Yost, A. B., Badger, J. M., Jensen, J., & Willford, J. (2014, May). Antecedents and out-comes of reactance to electronic performance monitoring. Poster to be presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu, HI.

Blacksmith, N., Yang, Y., & Dvorak, N.T. (2014, May). Targeted recruitment: Exploring job preferences across applicant profiles. Poster to be presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society for In-dustrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu, HI.

Costanza, D. P., Blacksmith, N., Severt, J. B., & Bentley, M. R. (2014, May). Adaptive cultures and or-ganizational survival. Poster to be presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu, HI.

Howardson, G. N. (2014, May). Publically available, archival datasets. In S. L. Fisher & K. A. Orvis (Chairs), Beyond the subject pool: Creative sampling methods in I-O psychology research. Panel dis-cussion to be held at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psy-chology, Honolulu, HI.

Kaminsky, S. E., & Behrend, T. S. (2014, May). An Integration of Social Cognitive and Career Calling The-ories. Paper to be presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organiza-tional Psychology, Honolulu, HI.

Karim, M. N. (2014, May). In S. L. Fisher & K. A. Orvis (Chairs), Beyond the subject pool: Creative sam-pling methods in I-O psychology research. Panel discus-sion to be held at the 29th Annual Conference of the Socie-ty for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu, HI.

Lynch, S. J., Kaminsky, S. E., Behrend, T. S., Spillane, N., & Peters-Burton, E. E. (2014, May). Informal learning in inclu-sive STEM-focused high schools. In T. S. Behrend & D. Major, I-O psychology’s contributions to patching the STEM pipeline. Symposium to be presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu, HI.

Thomas, K. R., Offermann, L. R., & Smith, L. N. (2014, May). Gender Composition in Work Teams: A Balancing Act. Poster to be presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Honolulu, HI.

SIOP PRESENTATIONS

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Dr. David Costanza was recently interviewed by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post about the psychological and organizational impacts of furloughs on federal workers and agencies. The Post also wrote a follow-up piece about the field of I-O Psychology. In addition, he recently participated in meetings with Congressional staff on Capitol Hill about the furloughs and their effects.

“For Psychologists Who Tend to Federal Employees, There’s a Lot to Work Through,” The Washington Post, Jan 13, 2014.

“Workers Furloughed in Shutdown Stay in Loop,” The Wall Street Journal, Oct 11, 2013.

“Managing a ‘Victimized’ Federal Workforce After the Shutdown,” The Washington Post, Oct 18, 2013

“What Do the Government’s ‘Industrial-Organizational Psychologists’ Do?,” The Washington Post, Jan 17, 2014

Dr. Tara Behrend’s project, “Opportunity Structures for Preparation and Inspiration (OSPrI),” which aims to understand and model the operations of STEM-focused schools, was recently highlighted in an article on GWU’s Columbian College of Arts & Sciences website. “Understanding and Cultivating STEM-Focused Education,” GW Arts & Sciences Magazine, Dec 1, 2013

A research project that will be presented at SIOP, conducted by Kaitlin R. Thomas, Lynn R. Offermann, and Lindsey N. Smith, was highlighted in recent news articles. Additionally, it was picked up by ABC Affiliates on several radio stations around the country.

“Which Gender Excels at Teamwork? Both...With a Catch, Business News Daily,” Jan 15, 2014

“Work Teams Work Better When Balanced with Men and Women, KMBZ Kansas City 98.1 FM,” Jan 17, 2014

“Work Teams Work Better When Balanced with Men and Women, NASH FM 102.5 FM,” Jan 20, 2014

MEDIA RECOGNITION

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FIRST ANNUAL I-O STUDENT NEW YEAR’S BRUNCH CELEBRATION!

The doctoral students often become so busy, it’s hard to spend any time outside the lab together. This year, they began a new tradition of holding a student brunch before the spring semester

starts to enjoy each other’s company sans journal articles and da-ta analysis (not that they don’t love all their I-O psychology work

too)!

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEWLYWEDS, PADEN AND

MEREDITH COATS!

RECENT PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS Basford, T. E., Offermann, L. R., & Behrend, T. S. (In press). Do you see what I see? Perceptions of gender mi-croaggressions in the workplace. Psychology of Women Quarterly. Behrend, T. S. (2014, May). Data-driven humanitarian work psychology. Invited symposium at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. Behrend, T. S. (2014, May). Recruitment and selection in the virtual workplace. Invited address to the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. Behrend, T. S., Gloss, A. E., Howardson, G. N., Thompson, L. F., & MacCallum, S. (2013). Psychological dynam-ics in ICTD projects. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Tech-nologies and Development. Blacksmith, N., & Poeppelman, T. (2013, July) Application of modern technology and social media in the work-place. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 51(1), 69-73. Credé, M. (2013) Sometimes Higher-Order Constructs Just Aren’t So: A Critical Review of 25 Years of Higher-Order Confirmatory Factor Analysis in the Organizational Sciences and a (Tentative) Development of Recommen-dations for Reporting Results. Presented at The George Mason University, Industrial-Organizational Psychology Brown Bag. Credé, M., & Kuncel, N. R. (2013). Self-Reported grades and GPA. In J. A. C. Hattie & E. M. Anderman (Eds.) The International Handbook of Student Achievement. London: Routledge Publishers. Dalal, R. S., & Credé, M. (2013). Job satisfaction and other job attitudes. In K. Geisinger, (Ed.) APA Handbook of Testing and Assessment in Psychology. Howardson, G. N., & Behrend, T. S. (2014). Using the Internet to recruit employees: Comparing the effects of usa-bility expectations and objective technological characteristics on Internet recruitment outcomes. Computers in Hu-man Behavior, 31, 334-342. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2013.10.057 Howardson, G. N., Kim, B., Shoss, M. K., Barber, L. K., & Jundt, D. K. (In press). The I-O pipeline and The Educa-tional Outreach Program (THEO). The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist. Karim, M. N., Kaminsky, S. E., & Behrend, T. S. (In press). Cheating, reactions, and performance in remotely proctored testing: An exploratory experimental study. Journal of Business and Psychology. doi:10.1007/s10869-014-9343-z Offermann, L. R., Matos, K., & Basu De Graaf, S. (In press). ¿Están hablando de mí?: Language challenges for multilingual organizations. Journal of Managerial Psychology.

Peters-Burton, E. E., Kaminsky, S. E., Lynch, S. J., Spillane, N., Behrend, T. S., Han, E., Ross, K., & House, A. (In press). Wayne School of Engineering: Case study of a rural inclusive STEM-focused high school. School Sci-ence and Mathematics. Poeppelman, T., & Blacksmith, N. (2014, January) Personal branding via social media: Increasing SIOP visibility one member at a time. The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 51(3), 112-119. Poeppelman, T., Blacksmith, N., & Yang, Y. (2013, October) “Big data” technologies: Problem or solution? The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 51(2), 119-126. *Bold indicates student or I-O alumni publication or presentation.

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RESEARCH UPDATES!

A lot is going on in the WAVE lab! Both graduate members and undergraduate members are currently collecting data for sever-al student-led projects related to computer-mediated inter-views, electronic monitoring, and many other exciting topics investigating the psychological implications of the digitally con-nected workplace. Members of the WAVE Lab are also work-ing with several industry partners on projects related to e-learning and technology career development/retention. Dr. Tara Behrend, WAVE Lab Director, will be talking about these projects and more in her invited APS talk in May. Be sure to check out the new WAVE lab website: wave-lab.org (pictured on the right)!

Dr. David Costanza’s research team is focusing on three streams of research: leadership, organizational cul-ture, and generations. Through his work at ARI, Dr. Costanza and colleagues are developing a model of high potential leadership. Empirical studies testing aspects of the model will soon be underway! The generational meta-analysis completed last year has received positive reviews and a number of citations already. The team will soon submit another piece on generations for publication and is also wrapping up a very interest-ing, but complex project on adaptive organizational cultures. Several other projects are on the horizon, as the team will soon be working with the FAA on generational and career research and has written a grant to the Army to research survival analysis. Fingers crossed!

Dr. Lynn Offermann’s research team is busy col-lecting data as part of her grant from the Society for Human Resource Management. The grant focuses on the career paths of high potential women college student leaders from 1985, and almost 100 of them have already responded to the survey— a response rate of about 50%!Preliminary analyses are showing that achieve-ment styles reported in 1985 are predictive of both career satisfaction and occupational suc-cess (including salary) 28 years later! The team is now collecting data from a control sample of GWU alumni from that same time period and in-depth interviews will begin over the summer.

In addition to working on women and leadership, team members have been working with col-leagues in GWU’s School of Business on pro-jects dealing with team virtuality. Studying pro-ject teams who can choose how to communicate, the research team is examining choices of face-to-face vs. virtual communication and the implica-tions of those choices for project success.

WAVE LAB

DR. COSTANZA’S LAB

DR. OFFERMANN’S LAB

Dr. Tara Behrend and Nikki Blacksmith are working on

a project with Dr. Reeshad Dalal and his doctoral stu-dent, Mengmeng Zhu from GMU, along with Dr. Theo-dore Hayes, GWU adjunct faculty. A team of 10 IRB-approved undergraduates are helping put materials to-gether (pictured above) and proctoring data collecting sessions. The team will begin collecting data from over 400 student organizations at GWU. Thanks to our RAs: Tyler Bond, Collette Byers, Samantha Dubrow, Victoria Harding, Sonja Manning, Nicholas Mervosh, Lily Philben, Jessica Toth, Alexandra Wakim, and Maya Warburg for all your hard work this past year!

Dr. Tara Behrend traveled to Cape Town, South Africa where she met with University of Cape Town faculty to discuss the Global Organisation for Humanitarian Work Psychology (GOHWP). Dr. Behrend is an Execu-tive Board member for this organization (details can be found here: gohwp.org/). Additionally, Dr. Behrend is looking for students to join and write columns for the GOHWP newsletter and blog. Interested stu-dents can contact her at behrend@gwu.edu.

While in Cape Town, Dr. Behrend also gave a plenary talk at the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) concerning the ways that I-O can assist in technology and international development efforts. For example, I-O can help in delivering feedback and support to rural community health workers or by assisting in the design of e-employment systems. As a continuation of these efforts, Dr. Behrend will also be speaking about these potential areas of collaboration at an invited session at APS and while chairing an invited panel at APA in August.

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA!

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DONOR RECOGNITION

STRUCTUAL EQUATION MODELING!

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Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc. (Justin De Graaf)* Raymond Francis Colangelo, MPHIL ‘83, Ph.D. ’90 David P. Costanza** Ilene Frances Gast, MPHIL ’81, Ph.D. ’87 Sumona B. De Graaf, Ph.D. ’12 Julia Ann Leaman, MPHIL ’89, Ph.D. ’92 Sojung Y. Mosel* Lynn R. Offermann**

Linda Peller Rosen, BA ’70 Theodore H. Rosen, BA ‘69, Ph.D. ’84 Marc P. Schappell, MPHIL ’85, Ph.D. ’90 Brian Marc Stern, MPHIL ’85, Ph.D. ’87 Susan Pearlman Stern, JD ’83 *Friend ** Faculty/Staff

The Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program would like to gratefully acknowledge the following generous donors who made a gift to the program from January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2013.

Over the winter break, many of the doctoral students attended a short course on structural equation modeling with Dr. Gregory Hancock (pictured on the right) at the University of Maryland. The students loved the class!!! Thank you to the Department of Organizational Sciences & Communication for partially funding this opportunity.

The 2013 winner of the national Psi Chi Prize for Undergraduate Research in Psychology was awarded to GWU senior undergraduate Ignez Renault. Her project, entitled “Workplace Discrimination: We’ve Come A Long Way…Or Have We?” was funded by GWU’s Luther Rice Award under the mentorship of Dr. Offermann. Congratulations, Ignez!

PSI CHI PRIZE

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PRACTICING WHAT I-O’S PREACH: MAINTAINING A PRODUCTIVE &

FUN CULTURE!

Although it seems like the students spend 24/7 studying in the lab, they never stop having fun and always make sure the lab is appropriately festive whether it’s Hal-

loween, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, or St. Patrick’s Day!

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Feb 28: Kaitlin Thomas will present on “Gender composition in work teams: A balancing act”

Mar 21: Michael Karim will present on “Electronic monitoring and self-regulation: Effects of monitoring pur-pose on goal choice, feedback perceptions, and learning”

Apr 11: Garett Howardson will conduct a workshop, “How R you doing that? A hands-on introduction to R”

May 2: Dr. Emily Guder from Federal Management Partners will talk about her work with government agen-cies

RESEARCH DISCUSSION SERIES SPRING 2014 SCHEDULE

The Organizational Sciences Student Association (OSSA) planned an exceptional evening with Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, President Emeritus, University Professor of Public Service, and co-author of Presidencies Derailed: Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It. He also shared some personal stories about traveling to Cuba and meeting Ava Gardner!

PRESIDENT EMERITUS TRACHTENBERG SPEAKS TO OSSA!

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