| Checking in With the Scientist–Practitioner Model: How Are We Doing? (2009) | |||||||||||||
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| The science and practice of industrial-organizational psychology is being influenced by a number of factors. For example, within academics, we see an increase in the number of faculty members taking positions in business schools. 1 Within practice, we see an increase in the number of mergers and acquisitions among I-O psychology consulting firms. I-O psychology research is becoming increasingly multilevel and multidisciplinary. I-O practitioners face increased challenges surrounding what they can share with the profession at large. As we face these and other changes, it not only becomes important to reflect on the implications of these trends for science and practice but also whether the scientist–practitioner model, as it is currently articulated, represents the way we are or should be conducting ourselves as a profession. To respond to this need, the SIOP Strategic Program Committee hosted a special invited panel discussion at the 2007 annual conference charged with the mission to “check in ” with the science–practice model and discuss how contemporary issues facing the field might affect the viability and interpretation of this model. The panel consisted of a sample of SIOP’s leading scientists, practitioners, scientist–practitioners, and practitioner–scientists: Rosemary | |||||||||||||
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