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Core I/O Faculty

Winfred Arthur, Jr., vita (Ph.D., University of Akron).
Research interests: Personnel psychology; testing, selection, and validation; human performance, team selection and training, training development, design, delivery, and evaluation; complex skill acquisition and retention, models of job performance, meta-analysis.

Mindy E. Bergman (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign).
[Area Head, Industrial/Organizational Psychology]
Research interests: Sexual and racial harassment and discrimination, organizational climate, organizational commitment, situational judgment tests.

Christopher Berry (Ph.D., University of Minnesota).
Rsearch interests: Validity and fairness in personnel selection and performance appraisal; cognitive ability and personality testing for selection purposes; response distortion; counterproductive work behavior; models of job performance; meta-analysis; accounting for range restriction in validity estimation.

Stephanie C. Payne (Ph.D., George Mason University).
Research interests: The measurement and prediction of efficiency in the workplace; criterion development and performance appraisal; individual differences (e.g., goal orientation); predictors of turnover including organizational commitment and work-family conflict; antecedents and outcomes of safety climate.

Charles D. Samuelson (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara).
Research interests: Computer–mediated communication and group processes, behavioral decision making, conflict management in multi-party environmental disputes.

 
Affiliated Faculty

Ludy Benjamin, Jr. (Ph.D., Texas Christian University).
Research interests: The history of psychology with a focus on the development of the early American psychology laboratories and organizations, on the origins of applied psychology, and on the popularization of psychology, including a concern with the evolution of psychology's public image.

Kathi Miner-Rubino (Ph.D., University of Michigan).
Department of Psychology, and Women's and Gender Studies Program
Research interests: Interpersonal mistreatment in applied contexts; gender, race, sexual orientation, and other categories of difference in organizations; occupational health; cross-cultural investigations of workplace mistreatment; power and status in organizations; how societal issues and events affect employee relations; physiological responses to workplace mistreatment.

Aaron B. Taylor (Ph.D., Arizona State University).
Research interests: Fit indexes in structural equation modeling; defining misspecification in structural equation modeling; statistical mediation/intervening variable effects; effect size measures.

 
Joint Appointments

Michael K. Lindell (Ph.D., University of Colorado)
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Research interests: Individual and organizational response to disasters, statistics.

Ramona Paetzold (J.D., University of Nebraska; D.B.A., Indiana University)
Department of Management, Texas A&M University
Research interests: Law and statistics, discrimination law.

 
Management Faculty

The Psychology Department maintains close ties with faculty from the Management Department in the College of Business Administration. The faculty members listed below have research interests in the I/O area or have assisted graduate students in the I/O program with research projects. Many of these faculty have also served on Master's and Doctoral committees for I/O students in the Department.

Michael Abelson (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University)
Organizational behavior, turnover processes, motivation.

Murray Barrick (Ph.D., University of Akron)
Impact of individual differences in behavior and personality on job performance and the methods of measuring and predicting such differences.  Work team success and the role of team composition, team interdependence, and team processes on team performance.  The influence of candidate self-presentation tactics on interviewers during employment interviews.

Leonard Bierman (J.D., University of Pennsylvania)
Employment and labor law.

Wendy Boswell (Ph.D., Cornell University)
Employee attraction and retention, strategic alignment, work-related stress, and executive job search.

Ricky Griffin (Ph.D., University of Houston)
Organizational behavior, task design, quality of work life.

Michael Hitt (Ph.D., University of Colorado).
Strategic human resource management, management issues in recently opened economics, international management.

Duane Ireland (Ph.D., Texas Tech University).

Gareth Jones (Ph.D., University of Lancaster)
Organization theory, organizational control, socialization.

Bradley Kirkman (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Implementing self-managing work teams, increasing the effectiveness of virtual teams, cultural issues in resistance to teams, team empowerment, and organizational justice.

Christopher O. L. H. Porter (Ph.D., Michigan State University)
Managing conflict and negotiations in organizations, team based work structures, performance appraisals and feedback interventions, justice in organizations.

Abbie Shipp (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Psychological experience of time at work including: how the trajectory of work experiences over time (including person–environment fit) affects attitudes and behaviors, how time is spent on work tasks, how frequently individuals think about the past/present/future.

Elizabeth Umphress (Ph.D., Tulane University)
Ethical decision making, organizational justice, diversity, social dominance theory.

Michael Wesson (Ph.D., Michigan State University)
Human resource management and organizational behavior.

Richard Woodman (Ph.D., Purdue University)
Organizational behavior, organizational change & development, creativity.

Ryan Zimmerman (Ph.D., University of Iowa)
Employee selection and retention, individual differences (e.g. personality and general mental ability), and person-environment fit.