New SIOP Series Editors Seek to Leverage, Extend Brands

The SIOP Publications Board is proud to announce that three SIOP Fellows have been chosen to serve as editors of the SIOP Organizational Frontiers and Professional Practice Series. The editors will assume their duties in April 2019, and the term of the appointments is 5 years.

Keenly aware of changes in the field of publishing and the global growth of I-O psychology, the editors will work to broaden the reach of the two series through strategic adaptations of process and technology.

Shullman is 2020 President, Kozlowski new Chair of Open Science and Methodology Committee

On November 8, APA released news that SIOP Member Sandra L. Shullman, PhD, a consulting psychologist internationally known in leadership assessment and development has been elected to lead the APA as president in 2020. The same day, APA announced that Steve W. J. Kozlowski, PhD, has been named the first chair of its new Open Science and Methodology Committee.

Linking Skills to Honor Our Military, Veterans, and Their Families

This week, in the United States, we celebrate Veterans Day, honoring those who volunteered to give up a civilian lifestyle to serve our nation and to keep us safe. At SIOP, we will honor these men and women by launching our inaugural #SIOPServingMilitary campaign on social media. We seek to achieve many goals:

1. Increase awareness of the needs of the military community seeking civilian employment and education in an inclusive manner. All members of a military family – service member, spouse, dependents – serve, face unique career challenges, and possess advantageous competencies and experience;

Bylaws Vote in December

The SIOP Executive Board recently voted to support a change in administrative procedures that are formalized in the SIOP Bylaws. Because any change to the Bylaws requires a full vote of the SIOP membership, the intended modification is described below.

Voting on the proposed bylaws change will begin on December 3, 2018, and conclude on January 1, 2019.

SIOP thanks Elliot D. Lasson, Professor of the Practice, and I-O Psychology Graduate Program director, UMBC at Shady Grove, for coordinating @UMBC student volunteers at the Leading Edge Consortium in Baltimore last month and for providing this feedback from the volunteers and students who attended the graduate student briefing.

Nidhi A.
My experience at SIOP's Leading Edge Consortium (LEC) on October 19-20 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel was phenomenal. At the conference, I have the opportunity to hear applied psychologists and senior executives talk about identifying, developing, and retaining high-potential talent (HiPos).