This session will review current research on the assessment center method. Topics will include AC validity and usefulness, proper design and application of the AC method through alignment with broader talent management strategies, differences in perspectives on focal constructs, and creating ACs to meet client needs while respecting current research

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158 January 2015, Volume 52, Number 32015 Conference ProgramKristen ShockleyProgram Chair, 2015We received well over 1,300 submis-sions for the 2015 SIOP conference in Philadelphia!  Around 820 sessions were accepted, and the conference is sure to be one of great appeal and intellectual stimulation. The conference schedule is available online at http://www.siop.org/conferences/15con/schedule.pdf.  In addi-tion to the peer-reviewed master tutorials, debates, symposia, posters, roundtables, alternative session types, and panels that were submitted, the conference commit-tee has been working hard to assemble a quality collection of Friday Seminars, Communities of Interest, a Master Collab-oration, a full-day Theme Track, and other Invited Sessions.  Below we summarize several notable program elements. You’ll be hearing many more details about the program as the conference approaches.Theme Track: Rethinking Our Approach to Organizational Science(Chair: Scott Tonidandel)The Thursday Theme Track presents a series of sessions on the first day of the conference related to a unifying topic cho-sen to resonate with the interests of our full SIOP audience, spanning practitioners, academics, and students from across the globe. This year’s Theme Track is titled “Rethinking Our Approach to Organiza-tional Science” and will focus on helping to create what President Jose Cortina calls “A revolution with a solution” aimed at estab-lishing improved standards for our science. We have carefully selected our session formats and invited speakers to ensure that those who join us for the Theme Track leave well-informed and entertained. The Theme Track sessions are presented in the same room throughout the day, the Independence Ballroom. You can stay all day or choose to attend individual sessions that are of most interest to you. All sessions are eligible for 1.5 continuing education credits, with the exception of the IGNITE session, Going Forward by Go-ing Back: “IGNITE” our Basic Stats, which is worth 1 CE credit. Check out http://www.siop.org/conferences/15con/regbk/themetrack.aspx for more detailed in-formation about each session, including learning objectives.Improving the Peer Review Process: Ad-vancing Science and Practice, 10:30-11:50Jeff Edwards, Scott Highhouse, Nancy Tip-pins, and Robert Vandenberg     159 The Industrial-Organizational PsychologistThe peer review process is a vital part of knowledge generation and transmission. Ac-ademics and practitioners both have a stake in understanding and improving the peer re-view process. Panelists will present ways to improve the peer review process. Via discus-sion groups, participants will engage (a) ex-perienced authors and reviewers with ideas on how to improve the review process, (b) novice and potential reviewers who have more basic questions, and (c) practitioners with questions and ideas for improving the applicability of published research.Pursuing Better Science in Organizational Psychology, 12:00-1:20Robert J. Vandenberg, Herman Aguinis, Steven Rogelberg, Jose Cortina, and  Ronald LandisThe current scientific model in organizational research needs to be improved. In our publi-cation process, there is an overemphasis on theory with little emphasis on empirical rep-lication. Tenure and promotion decisions are often based on publishing in the “right” jour-nals. There is also little incentive for practi-tioners to publish. In this session, a panel of experts consisting of journal editors and ex-perienced researchers will first highlight the challenges and shortcomings of the current publication system that impede scientific progress in our field. The panelists will then explore some of the causes of the problems and discuss ways to change the incentive structure to encourage better science.Modernizing Regression: Cool and Practi-cally Useful Advances From Other Fields, 1:30-2:50Fred Oswald, Seth Spain, and Brian  ConnellyOne of the bread-and-butter techniques in both academic and practitioner I-O psy-chologists’ statistical tool kits is multiple regression. Although most I-Os have been formally trained on multiple regression, over the past few decades there have been several developments in disciplines outside of I-O psychology that can improve the use of regression in I-O science and practice. This session will consist of three 20-minute TED-style talks that address ad-vances in multiple regression in a straight-forward, digestible manner. Attendees will be given a fun (in a geeky sort of way) and engaging tour of developments from do-mains such as computer science, machine learning, and econometrics that can help improve our common approaches to mul-tiple regression.  The talks will focus on the following topics: (a) modern variants on variable selection in multiple regression, (b) dealing with model uncertainty in mul-tiple regression, and (c) leveraging multi-ple regression to inform causality.Going Forward by Going Back: “Ignite” Our Basic Stats!, 3:30-4:20Eden King, Scott Tonidandel, Paul Bliese, Mark Gavin, Patrick Rosopa, and Larry WilliamsNovel, complex, statistical methods fre-quently offer new ways to explore data and build theory. At the same time, how-ever, the field of I-O psychology may ben-efit from revisiting some basic elements of design and analysis. This symposium will use a format modeled after the popular IGNITE sessions (http://igniteshow.com) in which presenters are charged to “enlighten us, but make it quick.”  Specifically, each presenter will have 5 minutes and 20 slides 160 January 2015, Volume 52, Number 3(which auto-advance every 15 seconds) to review some of the basic fundamentals of design and analysis and help move the field forward. This session will cover six topics: (a) revisiting the role of field exper-iments, (b) understanding t-tests, (c) re-viewing the logic behind the bootstrap, (d) interpreting dummy codes, (e) sandwich estimators in regression, and (f) df in SEM.Big Data Advances from Computer Science and Statistics, 4:30-5:50Evan Sinar, Ehsan Bokhari, and Andrea VillanesThis session will explore and illustrate Big Data advances from outside of I-O psychol-ogy relevant for organizational research.  The first talk will center on data visual-ization methods.  Several visualization methods will be illustrated as a concise and understandable way to summarize patterns in large complex datasets. Sec-ond, open-ended comments from employ-ee and customer surveys, as well as social media, are a rich source of information.  However, with large datasets, traditional methods of manual coding are impracti-cal. Big Data text analytic approaches to handling an abundance of qualitative data will be discussed.  Finally, nonparametric and nonlinear approaches to predicting a continuous or categorical outcome vari-able, known as classification and regres-sion trees (CART), have been utilized in statistics and computer science for several years. This session will illustrate these methods within an I-O psychology context.Master Collaboration: Global I Meets Global O: Research+Practice on Selection and Work–Life (Chair: Gary Giumetti)The Master Collaboration session brings together a range of leading practitioners and academics focused on global issues in selection and work–life to share the state of the science and practice, to iden-tify gaps and outline opportunities for collaboration in the future. This session will appeal to practitioners and academics looking to bridge the gap between good science and practice in the frontiers of global selection and work–life program im-plementation. The session takes place on Saturday from 8:30-9:50.Global Deployment of Assessment and Se-lection Programs Doug ReynoldsDoug Reynolds will talk about his experi-ences with global organizations that seek consistency in their implementation of selection systems and the various factors that facilitate or impede this goal.  In ad-dition, Doug will discuss how technology is a critical facilitator.  Technology systems provide the backbone for supporting global consistency, but the limitations of technology deployment across regions also place limits on what is possible. Finally, Doug will uncover assumptions about how assessment and selection procedures vary by culture and how global programs need to take account of these variations to be successful. Selecting for Cultural AgilityPaula Caligiuri Paula Caligiuri will describe the results of a recent survey by PWC, which found that roughly one-third of CEOs reported that they had to cancel strategic global      161 The Industrial-Organizational Psychologistinitiatives due to lack of talent and that the problem is worsened because they just don’t have enough culturally agile talent for those initiatives to be effective.  The need for culturally agile talent, who can comfortably and effectively work in differ-ent cultures and with people from differ-ent cultures, is now a strategic imperative.  To address this issue, Paula will describe the research and practice on how to select culturally agile professionals to staff key strategic initiatives. Work Enabling Life at KelloggAngela PrattAngela Pratt will speak about the cre-ation and implementation of the Kellogg Company’s Global Work Enabling Life strategy, work–life policies, and measures of success. In her former role, Angela led the company’s engagement strategy and work–life intervention, and now, in her current role, she is in charge of implement-ing the global program in Europe. Angela will describe how Kellogg has renewed its work–life strategy, including four major components: (a) the manager, (b) technol-ogy/environment, (c) health and wellness, and (d) leadership. Angela will also provide an overview of Kellogg’s work life portal, which is housed on the Intranet and con-tains links to global and local policy, as well as global and local trainings for easy access and best practice sharing across regions.Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life: An International PerspectiveSteven PoelmansSteven Poelmans will review some cross-cultural differences and universal themes in the experience of harmonizing work, family, and personal life, reflect-ing on the findings of the Collaborative International Study of Managerial Stress (CISMS), an international research collabo-ration focusing on stress and work–family conflict in over 25 nations around the world. Steven will reflect on the challenges of international research collaboration and will introduce a new perspective to this field, informed by neuroscience. This body of research holds the promise to unveil biologically shared and cross-culturally valid processes underlying the dynamics of work–life conflict and enrichment.DiscussionAnn Marie RyanAs discussant, Ann Marie Ryan will provide an integration of the presentations, with a particular focus on the challenges asso-ciated with the intersection of work–life issues, cross-cultural psychology, and em-ployee selection.  Although there is a body of research on selection in global contexts, a body of literature on work–life issues in international assignments, and a research stream on work–life differences across cul-tures, a consideration of work–life needs in selecting employees poses a set of unique challenges and considerations.  These chal-lenges will be the focus of discussion.Communities of Interest (COI) Sessions(Chair: Christine Corbet)There will be 13 outstanding Community of Interest sessions this year, each designed to create new communities around common themes, interests, and “hot topics” in I-O psychology. The sessions have no chair, pre-senters, discussant, or even slides. Instead, 162 January 2015, Volume 52, Number 3they are audience-driven discussions infor-mally moderated by one or two facilitators with insights on a topic of interest. These are great sessions to attend if you would like to meet potential collaborators, gener-ate ideas, have stimulating conversations, meet some new friends with common in-terests, or expand your network to include other like-minded SIOP members.  This year’s Communities of Interest are:Thursday•	 Team Composition: Considering Team Mix for Staffing and Beyond (Facilita-tors: Suzanne Bell & Jamie Donsbach) 10:30–11:50•	 Envisioning the Future of I-O (Facili-tators: Pat Caputo & Mary Mawritz) 12:00–1:20•	 I-O for the Greater Good: Prosocial Applications of Our Expertise (Facilita-tors: Christine Corbet & Sean Cruse) 1:30–2:50•	 How I-O Can Respond to Ferguson. (Fa-cilitators: Mikki Hebl & TBA) 3:30–4:20•	 Measuring Implicit Motives via Condi-tional Reasoning (Facilitators: James LeBreton, Jeremy Bowers Schoen, & Sigrid Gustafson) 4:30–5:50Friday•	 ROI of Leadership and Executive Coaching Programs (Facilitators: Robin Cohen & David Peterson) 8:30–9:50•	 Learning Agility: Practical Uses and Research Needs (Facilitators: Veronica Harvey & Chockalingam Viswesvaran) 10:30–11:50•	 Using Big Data for Employment Deci-sions (Facilitators: Matt Such & Nancy Tippins) 12:00–1:20•	 Building a Climate for Safety?  Let’s Talk! (Facilitators: Michael Ford & Kon-stantin Cigularov) 1:30–2:50•	 Methods, Madness, and Truth: Ten-sions Among Publishing, Theory, and Replication (Facilitators: Jeff Cucina & Scott Tonidandel) 3:30–4:20•	 Workplace Incivility: From Science to Solutions  (Facilitators: Lilia Cortina & Michael Leiter) 4:30–5:50Saturday•	 The Role of Positive Psychology in I-O  (Facilitators: Tammy Allen & Louis Al-loro) 10:30–11:50•	 Legal Defensibility of Selection Practic-es (Facilitators: Eric Dunleavy, Jim Out-tz & Arthur Gutman) 12:00–1:20•	 Cognitive Science: Fertile Grounds for I-O (Facilitators: Steve Fiore & Gilad Chen) 1:30–2:50Invited Sessions(Chair: Martin Lanik)This year we will feature invited sessions throughout the conference, built around emerging and current topics of broad in-terest across the SIOP membership, the following have been developed by the Invited Sessions Program Subcommittee, which includes the fifth edition of the in-vited IGNITE session (each year, one of the conference’s most-attended sessions!). Please note, the term “invited” refers to the presenters, not the audience—all are welcome to these very special sessions!     163 The Industrial-Organizational PsychologistFuture of HR from the Perspective of Technology Startups (Friday 5:00–5:50)Matt Barney, Natalie M. Baumgartner, Martin Lanik, Greg Moran, Christy Smith, Imo Udom In this session, panelists will present their disrupting technology and discuss how it’s changing HR.  In 2013, startups raised $600 million to fund development of new HR technology, from applicant tracking and vid-eo interviewing to culture management and employee development software. This “HR technology renaissance” is changing how organizations hire and manage employees. Invited Session: You Think You Can Solve an I-O Problem? (Saturday 3:30–4:20)Madhura Chakrabarti, Abeer Dubey, Mi-chael Meltzer, Fred Oswald, Andrea Spaeth In this session, panelists recognize the need for interdisciplinary research and practice. To that end, this unique session will bring together three non-industrial-or-ganizational (I-O) psychology professionals (i.e., an engineer, lawyer, and neuropsy-chologist) who will be posed with an I-O problem (identification and selection of high potentials) to solve from the lens of their respective disciplines. The objective is (a) to expose I-O psychologists to new ways of thinking, (b) learn new meth-odologies, and (c) blend the boundaries between seemingly unrelated fields of sci-ence and humanities.Research This! Casting Aside the Publica-tion Chains to IGNITE Organizations (Sat-urday 10:30–11:50)Eugene Burke, Caren Goldberg, Jeff Edwards, Alexis Fink, Ken Lahti, Ron Landis, Lisa Hisae Nishii, Deidra Schleicher, Evan SinarThis year’s invited IGNITE session will high-light truly great I-O research, but not in the conventional sense of being theoretically intense or statistically complex; in fact, they are almost guaranteed to not be. What makes these examples of research great is the positive impact they could have on or-ganizations. Presentations will range from meaningful studies that would never be publishable in an I-O journal to ideas for research that were never pursued because the study would probably not be publish-able. This is the first step to giving this hid-den treasure trove of insights a voice.Copyright of TIP: The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist is the property of Society forIndustrial & Organizational Psychology and its content may not be copied or emailed tomultiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission.However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.

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