8th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference (IOP)

Meeting the Future: Promoting Sustainable Organisational Growth

Submissions have now closed. 

The conference will bring together prominent researchers and practitioners from Australia and overseas to explore new and challenging themes in workplace psychology. Keynote speakers will include Prof. Beryl Hesketh, Prof. Deniz Ones, Prof. Eduardo Salas, Prof. Sabine Sonnentag, Prof. Phillip Taylor, and Prof. Robert Wood. For organisational psychologists, researchers, workplace consultants, or anyone with an interest in business best practice, this conference is not to be missed.

The conference will be held at Manly Beach, which is only 20 min by fast ferry from downtown Sydney and its famous Opera House. The venue will be the newly renovated Manly Pacific Sydney Novotel

The Organising Committee invites you to contribute to the conference through:

• Individual Research Papers
• Symposia
• Posters
• Practice forums
• How to sessions
• Workshops

See below for further instructions and an example of an abstract.

Acceptances for conference presentations will be sent out in early December 2008. Final inclusion in the program will require registration by the presenting author. The program timetable will be finalised in early May 2009.

Conference Themes

All submissions will be considered on their merits. However, the Organising Committee wishes to encourage submissions relating to organisational sustainability, that is, constructing and managing work in ways that meet present needs of an organisation and its people, but with a view to long-term development and growth within the larger social, economic, and natural environment. Major topics include Organisational Development and Change Management, Performance Management, Well-Being and Work-Life Balance, Health and Safety, Human Factors, Leadership, Aging, Corporate Social Responsibility, Indigenous and Cross-Cultural Issues.

Online submission

All submissions must be made via the online submission process.  A separate online submission must accompany each application for an individual research paper, poster, forum, how to session and symposium. It is essential that all sections of the online form be completed. For a symposium or forum, only one submission is required, detailing the overall abstract and the individual abstracts within the session, and including first author/presenter and all other presenters and participants.

Quality control

All abstracts submitted will be subject to a quality control process through peer review organised by the International Scientific Program Committee.

Code of Ethics

Authors of material submitted for the IOP Conference must conform to the Australian Psychological Society's Codes of Ethics. Copies can be obtained from the APS website at www.psychology.com.au.

Professional development points

College endorsed sessions will attract specialist professional development points.

Details for Presentations and their Submission

•  Individual Research Paper (20 min)

Each individual paper will be allowed a total of 20 min, which includes 15 min for oral presentation and 5 min for questions.

Each paper should be submitted separately. Submissions will undergo peer review. There will be a prize for the best paper. If there are more acceptable papers than slots available for oral presentation, then an offer will be made to present as a Poster.

• Symposium (1.5 hr)

A symposium will contain four 20-minute individual papers linked thematically around a topic of research and/or practice.

The convenor of the symposium should make a single submission containing an overall abstract plus the abstracts for the individual papers. (Symposium presenters should NOT separately submit their own abstracts.) Submissions for symposia will undergo peer review with respect to their scientific quality and/or relevance to practice, as appropriate.

• Poster Presentation (1.5 hr)

During poster sessions, authors will have the opportunity to describe and discuss their presentations in an unstructured fashion with attendees. Presenters should be prepared to be in attendance at their poster for the entire session. Poster submissions will be peer reviewed, and there will be a prize for the best poster.

• Practice Forum (1.5 hr)

These forums should focus on topics of immediate relevance to practitioners.  

The forums should be structured to allow audience participation and may include experiential material. Practice forums are not intended to be marketing opportunities for particular products or services, and submissions primarily of this type will not be considered.

The convenor of the forum should make a single submission containing an overall abstract plus the abstracts for individual papers. (Forum presenters should NOT separately submit their own abstracts.) Submissions for forums will undergo peer review with respect to their relevance to practice.

• How to Session (45 min)

How to sessions should offer practical, specific advice concerning how to conduct a particular type of research or practice, e.g., design of a situational interview, how to manage change, how to run a consultancy.  How to sessions are ideal for practitioners who wish to share an aspect of their expertise or experience. However, like practice forums, they are not intended to be marketing opportunities.

Only a single on-line submission is required for each proposed session.

• Workshop (Thursday, 25 June, Whole or Half Day)

Keynote speakers have been invited to present whole-day or half-day workshops.  Depending on how many of these invitations are accepted, there may be a limited number slots available for other interested persons to present a remunerated workshop. If time is available, a half-day workshop may be repeated in the morning and afternoon. If interested, please submit a brief expression of interest and query for further details to the conference chair, Prof. E. James Kehoe at j.kehoe@unsw.edu.au

Abstracts

The text should be a maximum of 200 words and should follow the American Psychological Association format:  

Title: The title of the paper should be in lower case with the first letter being upper case. No other words should have capital letters unless they are proper nouns. Please make sure the same title is used on the submission form as on the abstract.

Authors: The authors' names should be in upper case, with presenting author listed first. Each should appear in the form: Last name, (comma) initial. (full stop) (if more than one initial, run together) and should be followed immediately by the institution or other affiliation (in lower case with capital letters as appropriate). Please restrict affiliations to one only. There should be a comma before the ampersand for multiauthor papers or after the institution for authors from different affiliations. The principal presenting author's name should be listed first.

Email address: Give the full email address of the principal presenting author in the usual form, using conventional lettering. There should be no full stop at the end of the email address. Only give one email address.

Conference registration

Final acceptance will be dependent on the conference registration of all presenters, discussants and panel members.

Conference Proceedings (DEST points)*

The Conference Proceedings will contain refereed paper presentations from the conference program. Submissions will be invited from accepted individual research papers, symposia, and poster presentations. The Conference Proceedings will attract DEST points (E1 full written, refereed proceedings) and will be available as pdf files on the conference website immediately following the conference. Interested parties will need to submit their paper of no more than five pages, in full, by 1st March 2009 to allow adequate time for conventional peer review. Note submission of a paper does not guarantee publication. A template outlining the submission style is available on the conference website.

Publication of Abstracts

The abstracts of accepted individual papers, symposia, and posters are published in the annual combined conference abstracts book published as a supplement to the Australian Journal of Psychology.

All enquiries to:

8th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference
Australian Psychological So
ABN 23 000 543 788
PO Box 38, Flinders Lane
Melbourne VIC 8009 Australia
Tel: +61 3 8662 3300
Fax: +61 3 9663 6177
Email: iopconference@psychology.org.au 
Website: www.iopconference.com.au