8th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference (IOP)
Manly Pacific Sydney, 25 - 28 June 2009
Keynote speakers
The program will feature keynote presentations and workshops from the following internationally acclaimed speakers:
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Professor Deniz S. Ones
Keynote Address: Understanding and predicting counterproductive work behaviors
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Professor Eduardo Salas
Keynote Address: Work Teams in Organizations: A Quarter Century of Progress -
Professor Sabine Sonnentag
Keynote Address: Staying Well and Healthy: Recovery from Daily Job Stress -
Professor Philip Taylor
Keynote Address: Baby Boom or Baby Bust?: A new ageing workforce research agenda -
Professor Robert Wood
Keynote Address: Knowledge Based Leadership -
Professor Beryl Hesketh
Keynote Address: Future Trends and Influences on Organizational Psychology
Professor Deniz Ones
Deniz S. Ones is Professor of Psychology and the holder of the Hellervik Professorship of Industrial Psychology at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1993 under the mentorship of Frank Schmidt. Her undergraduate degree is from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Her research, published in more than 100 articles and book chapters, focuses on personnel selection and measurement of personality, integrity, and cognitive ability for personnel staffing and has been cited over 2,000 times in the scientific literature.
She has received numerous prestigious awards for her work in these areas; among these the 1994 Wallace Best Dissertation and the 1998 McCormick Early Career Distinguished Scientific Contributions Awards from the Society for Industrial and Industrial Psychology (Division 14 of the American Psychological Association), as well as the 2003 Cattell Early Career Award from the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology. She is a Fellow of Divisions 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics) and 14 (Industrial and Organizational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. She has served as co-editor in chief of the International Journal of Selection and Assessment (2001-2006).
She has served on editorial boards of multiple prominent scientific journals. She has co-edited the best-selling, two-volume Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology (2001), and several special issues of journals on cognitive ability tests, counterproductive work behaviors, and personality measurement for work applications. In her applied work, she focuses on helping organisations design and implement staffing and selection systems.
Professor Eduardo Salas
Eduardo Salas is University Trustee Chair and Pegasus Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He also holds an appointment as Program Director for Human Systems Integration Research Department at UCF's Institute for Simulation & Training. Previously, he was a senior research psychologist and head of the Training Technology Development Branch of NAVAIR-Orlando for 15 years. During this period, Dr Salas served as a principal investigator for numerous R&D programs focusing on teamwork, team training, simulation-based training, decision-making under stress, learning methodologies and performance assessment.
Dr Salas has co-authored over 300 journal articles and book chapters and has co edited 18 books. He is on/has been on the editorial boards of a large number of journals. Dr Salas has held numerous positions in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society during the past 15 years. He is the past chair of the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Technical Group and of the Training Technical Group, and served on the Executive Council. He is also very active with Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).
His expertise includes helping organisations on how to foster teamwork, design and implement team training strategies, facilitate training effectiveness, manage decision making under stress, develop performance measurement tools, and design learning and simulation-based environments. He is currently working on designing tools, instructional strategies and techniques to minimise human errors in aviation, law enforcement and medical environments. He has consulted to a variety of manufacturing, pharmaceutical laboratories, industrial and governmental organisations. Dr Salas is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (SIOP and Division's 19, 21 & 49), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Association for Psychological Science. He received his Ph.D. degree (1984) in industrial and organisational psychology from Old Dominion University.
Professor Beryl Hesketh
Beryl Hesketh is Executive Dean, Health and Science at the University of Western Sydney, having previously been Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Science & Technology) and Dean of Science at the University of Sydney. She has also held senior roles in psychology at Macquarie University and the University of New South Wales. She was awarded the Australian Psychological Society Elton Mayo Award in 1997, and organised and chaired the inaugural Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology conference in Sydney 1995. She has published widely, and has received consistent ARC funding for her applied psychology research. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia, of the Australian Psychological Society, and of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology (SIOP). She has extensive international reviewing and editorial experience, including terms as associate editor for the Journal of Vocational Behavior and the Journal of Applied Psychology. Her research interests remain in technology and applied decision-making in the broad field of IO psychology.
Professor Sabine Sonnentag
Sabine Sonnentag is a full professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Konstanz, Germany and a visiting professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studied psychology at the Free University Berlin and received her Ph.D. from the Technical University Braunschweig. In her research, Dr. Sonnentag is mainly interested in how individuals can achieve sustained high performance at work and remain healthy at the same time. She studies recovery from job stress, proactive work behavior, learning, and self-regulation in the job context.
Dr. Sonnentag published in journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, and Personnel Psychology. She serves on editorial boards of several scholarly journals and is currently the editor of Applied Psychology: An International Review. She is Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Professor Philip Taylor
Philip Taylor PhD joined Swinburne University of Technology in August 2006 as Professor of Employment Policy. Prior to this he was a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge and Executive Director of Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing.
He has researched and written in the field of age and employment for almost 20 years. He is currently leading major programmes of research at Swinburne considering the management of ageing workforces, and involving extensive employer-based research.
His interests include individual orientations to work and retirement, employers' attitudes and practices towards older workers and international developments in public policies aimed at combating age barriers in the labour market and extending working life. He is frequently asked to address national and international conferences on issues concerning older workers and has sat on official committees concerned with issues of workforce ageing.
Professor Robert Wood
Professor Robert Wood is Director of the Accelerated Learning Laboratory and Professor at UNSW. His research on the cognitive and motivational determinants of learning and performance on complex tasks is widely recognized within the organizational psychology literature.
He is a Fellow of ASSA, SIOP, IAAP and ANZAM. His research on the Attributional Model of Leadership, with Terry Mitchell and Steve Green, was recognized as one the significant contributions to organizational behavior by a panel of international experts and one of his papers (with Paul Atkins and Jim Bright) was selected as an example of the most interesting and influential research by Australian psychologists in the period 1999-2002".
In addition to his research, Bob has extensive experience as an advisor, consultant and executive teacher for private and government organizations, both in Australia and overseas. He has also served as DVC at the University of Western Australia.
The APS Elton Mayo Awards winners
The Elton Mayo Awards are given in recognition of original contributions to basic knowledge in the field, applications of Industrial/Organisational (IO) psychology techniques and/or contributions to the advancement of organisational psychology as a profession.
The three categories of award are:
- Elton Mayo Award for Outstanding Contributions to IO Research and Teaching
- Elton Mayo Award for Outstanding Contributions to IO Practice
- Elton Mayo Award for Outstanding Contributions to IO by an early career psychologist
Winners to be announced at the conference.
Further information about the awards is available here.
