Welcome back MPPAW members and friends! Our first meeting of the season will be September 13th at Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown. Tracy Kantrowitz, Ph.D., from CEB will be speaking about the intersection of research and trending topics in I/O. Join us for our social hour at 5:30 complete with complimentary food and beverages for purchase. There is plenty of time to network before the speaker presentation begins at 6:20. All subsequent meetings will be on the third Tuesday of the month. Thank you to CEB for sponsoring this event!
Speaker: Tracy Kantrowitz, Ph.D.
Topic: “The Intersection of Research and Trending Topics in I/O” (mobile assessment, hi-po assessment, social media, and performance management)
Location: Marriott Courtyard at 7 Corners, 1500 S. Washington Ave., Minneapolis
Sponsor: CEB
Event Description:
Despite our best intentions to stay informed, busy IOs are often too busy doing our jobs to pick up or contribute to the latest scientific journals. This presentation will fulfill these best intentions by boiling down some of most important findings of recent years. Topics mirror some of the top trends in IO psychology and will include discussion of mobile assessment, assessing for potential, the use of social media data for employment decision making, and performance management reform. I will describe current evidence and the ways that these findings can drive your practice and scholarship. I will also highlight topics that require additional investigation to shore up research on trending topics.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Kantrowitz is Research Director at CEB Talent Assessment. In this role, she is responsible for the development of assessment content and research related to the use of assessment
tools for employee selection and development. Dr. Kantrowitz has published numerous articles in leading journals and presented at national conferences on topics such as predictors of job performance, computer adaptive testing, unproctored internet testing, and mobile assessment. Tracy’s primary areas of expertise relate to test development, validation, research methodology, statistics and psychometrics, job analysis, and selection system design. She recently co-authored a forthcoming effective practice guidelines report for the Society for Human Resources (SHRM) Foundation with Elaine Pulakos titled Advances in Assessment Methods and Technology.
Tracy has received multiple awards from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), where she was elected Fellow in 2015, including the M. Scott Myers Award for applied research in the workplace and the Distinguished Early Career Contributions – Practice award. She was previously Chair of the Professional Practice Committee for SIOP and is currently incoming Program Chair for SIOP.
Dr. Kantrowitz holds a Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology.