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Strengthening Shared Identity in I-O Psychology Through Online Social Networks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Gordon B. Schmidt*
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
Richard N. Landers
Affiliation:
Old Dominion University
*
E-mail: [email protected], Address: Michigan State University, 302 Psychology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824

Extract

Central to the argument of Ryan and Ford (2010) is that the identity of “industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist” is at a number of tipping points that could lead to major changes in the field. The two tipping points that we will focus on are (a) the increasingly blurry distinctions between current I-O psychologists and HR/OB professionals and (b) the growing number of new I-O psychologists who do not have a deep-structure I-O identity because they are ultimately employed in fields outside of I-O psychology.

Type
Commentaries
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2010 

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Footnotes

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Michigan State University

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Old Dominion University.

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