Category: Organizations

Torture, the APA, and I/O Psychology

If you haven’t heard by now, based upon several independent investigations and public accusations of wrongdoing, the American Psychological Association commissioned a law firm to create what is referred to in the media as the Hoffman report,...

Valve Software’s Success Linked Strongly to Hiring Practices

Valve Software is one of the videogaming industry’s most prominent and successful companies.  It is responsible for some of videogaming’s most prominent games and game platforms, including Half-Life, Team Fortress, Counterstrike, Half-Life 2, Portal,...

Convincing Businesses to Try Gameification

One of my core personal missions is to convince the corporate world that gameification is a valuable tool in the arsenal of HR strategists for encouraging particular behaviors from their employees. From a mechanical...

Acronyms: SIOP’s Worst Enemy

I thought it might be a useful exercise to list the other organizations and techniques that share the new possible names for SIOP, courtesy of Acronym Finder. My favorites are “SWP: Socialist Workers Party” and “SWOP: Sex Workers Outreach Project.”

SIOP’s Identity Crisis: What’s In a Name?

My field’s principle organization, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, has been recently debating a name change.  It’s a topic about which many feel passionately.  I’ve been resisting joining the fray because I haven’t been...