​SIOP Foundation Launches 1st Ever Visionary Circle

The SIOP Foundation, Inc. launches their first ever Visionary Circle to fund innovative research on industrial and organizational psychology science and practice that will have a lasting impact in the workplace. Operated in collaboration with the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Inc. (SIOP), the SIOP Visionary Circle is a charitable program of the SIOP Foundation, and the program’s goal is to secure at least $100,000 to fund a grant in 2020.

The editorial team of Human Resources Management Journal would like to invite authors to submit proposals for the Journal’s Review & Provocation section. See this link for an overview of the papers published to date: https://0-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.library.alliant.edu/page/journal/17488583/homepage/provocation_papers.htm

Guest editors: Luciara Nardon (Carleton University, Canada), Betina Szkudlarek (University of Sydney Business School, Australia), Soo Min Toh (University of Toronto, Canada)

The number of refugees worldwide is increasing dramatically. A recent UNHCR report estimates that at the end of 2016 the world refugee population was over 22.5 million (UNHCR, 2017). While the refugee population can help developed countries reverse their negative demographic trends and bring economic and social benefit to host countries, research suggests that many refugees end up underemployed (Krahn et al., 2000) or dependent on public assistance (Hansen & Lofstrom, 2003), thus failing to fully integrate into the host society (Feeney, 2000).

​SIOP 2019 Machine Learning Competition Registration Opens

There are lots of ways data are being used in business processes, but one of the most exciting is machine learning. SIOP will be bringing the challenge of machine learning front and center for this year’s annual conference with an open competition to test the ability to work with unstructured data.

Registration is open now for the free 2nd Annual SIOP Machine Learning Competition and will conclude with a presentation by the winners at  the 2019 Annual Conference in National Harbor, Maryland just outside of Washington, DC, April 4-6, 2019. Participants may enter at any time, and winners will be announced by March 21.

McGuire brings lengthy experience with Capitol Hill, executive branch, private sector

WASHINGTON – The American Psychological Association has named Katherine B. McGuire its first chief advocacy officer, responsible for implementing a unified, strategic vision for the association’s government relations efforts and coordinating APA’s broader advocacy initiatives in non-governmental sectors.

With more than 25 years of senior-level policy experience in Congress, the executive branch and the private sector, McGuire was most recently assistant secretary for congressional and intergovernmental affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor.