Michigan Association of Industrial Organizational Psychology (MAIOP)

Only a couple weeks out from our next in-person networking event! Everyone is welcome, and new members get a FREE drink. #maiop #iopsychology #networking #coffee

Are you interested in a career in Industrial/Organizational Psychology? Want to learn how I/O psychology is applied in the real world? Join us for a virtual Open House and Alumni Panel featuring graduates from the University of Detroit Mercy’s I/O Psychology M.A. Program! Hear firsthand how they drive organizational effectiveness, leadership development, HR strategy, and mental health improvements in the workplace. ?? Date: February 20, 2025 ? Time: 5:15 - 6:30 PM EST ?? Register now: https://lnkd.in/evTyp2T4 Meet Our Alumni Panelists: ?? Matt Turner, M.A. – Human Resource Generalist, Dexter ?? Lauren Engle, M.A. – Human Resources Associate, Kasco Construction Inc. ?? Amanda Starkey – Project Associate II, Policy Research Associates, Inc. ?? Victoria Vargas, PHR – Director, Corporate Human Resources ?? Allison Urban – HR Generalist, Opus IVS Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and explore your future in I/O Psychology! For more details, contact: Dr. Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster, Program Director ?? [email protected] ?? (586)-873-1743 #IOPsychology #GradSchool #DetroitMercy #CareerGrowth #HR #LeadershipDevelopment

Coming up at the end of this month, join MAIOP as we meet with Talent Management professionals and discuss real-world challenges they tackle! Members get FREE access to the event and recording. Not a member? Sign up through our website, www.maiop.org! Single access is $5 at registration. #michigan #iopsychology #virtual #talentmanagement

Coming up at the end of this month, join MAIOP as we meet with Talent Management professionals and discuss real-world challenges they tackle! Members get FREE access to the event and recording. Not a member? Sign up through our website, www.maiop.org! Single access is $5 at registration. #michigan #iopsychology #virtual #talentmanagement

New research ?? “Measuring work attitudes with less: Supervised construct scoring to shorten work attitude measures” Researchers have long been interested in assessing employee work attitudes and perceptions. However, surveys measuring these constructs are often quite long, resulting in “survey fatigue” and prohibiting comprehensive measurement. This has led to the adoption of unvalidated measures, short measures with poor accuracy, or choosing to forgo assessment entirely. In an ideal world, researchers could measure work attitudes and perceptions using shorter scales that exhibit similar levels of accuracy as longer, previously validated measures. A recent paper by Angie Delacruz, Lauren Wegmeyer, PhD, and me tackled this challenge using a scale-shortening method called supervised construct scoring (SCS). SCS works through supervised modeling, where the original full-scale score serves as the target variable, and a reduced set of items—identified through content validity judgments—serve as input variables. An algorithm then weights the items to maximize the reproduction of the original full-scale scores, using all available short-form survey content. Across several data collections, we found that: · ?? SCS facilitates the development of shorter work attitude and perception surveys while preserving strong psychometric properties similar to full scale scores (e.g., correlated > .95 on average with full scale scores despite being 39% the number of items). ·???SCS outperformed single-item measures, though single-item measures also generally demonstrated acceptable psychometric properties. ·???We developed two measures that in total assess 20 work attitudes and perceptions (e.g., pay satisfaction, engagement) in approximately three minutes (using 32 items). The resulting scale/scoring algorithm are called the Short Work attitude and Perception Scales (SWAPS). Algorithms are freely accessible, enabling organizations to adopt efficient, concise surveys to enhance understanding and support workforce well-being. Check out the paper in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology: https://lnkd.in/gKZWQF4W Scoring materials for SWAPS can be found: https://lnkd.in/gapkVdnu

MAIOP is celebrating the end of the year with a holiday happy hour in Detroit! Take this opportunity to get together with your local I-O Psychology community and celebrate all the hard work we put in this year! We will also have a station at the event where you can sign-up for full MAIOP benefits for next year! Anyone who signs up will receive a free drink ticket for the event. See you there! Any questions? Send us a message on LinkedIn or an email at [email protected]. Happy holidays!