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Journal of Applied Psychology
Editors/Authors Session: Saturday 5/30/2009
11:30am-12:00pm
The Journal of Applied Psychology publishes investigations that contribute new knowledge and understanding to fields of applied psychology (other than clinical and applied experimental or human factors, which are more appropriate for other American Psychological Association journals).
The journal primarily considers empirical and theoretical investigations that enhance understanding of cognitive, motivational, affective, and behavioral psychological phenomena.
Those psychological phenomena can be:
- at one or multiple levels—individuals, groups, organizations, or cultures;
- in work settings such as business, education, training, health, service, government, or military institutions; and
- in the public or private sector, for-profit or nonprofit.
The journal publishes several types of articles:
- Theoretically driven and rigorously conducted empirical investigations that extend conceptual understanding (original investigations or meta-analyses);
- Theory development that synthesizes literature and creates new theory of psychological phenomena that will stimulate novel research (not extended literature reviews that do not advance theory);
- Descriptive research on applied psychological phenomena lacking basic knowledge in the literature that will provide a foundation for building new knowledge and theory (such studies should be directed at providing novel data on important and unknown phenomena, e.g., time frames for team development or socialization; dynamics of affect, performance, or other behaviors; discovery and documentation of new, important, and meaningful phenomena); and
- Rigorously conducted qualitative research on phenomena that are difficult to capture with quantitative methods.
The journal accepts work that is conducted in the field or in the laboratory, where the data (quantitative or qualitative) are analyzed with elegant or simple statistics, so long as the data or theoretical synthesis advances understanding of psychological phenomena and human behavior that have practical implications.
A nonexhaustive sampling of topics appropriate for the Journal of Applied Psychology includes:
- individual differences in abilities, personality, and other characteristics;
- testing and personnel selection;
- performance measurement and management;
- training, learning, and skill acquisition;
- work motivation;
- job attitudes, affect, and emotions;
- leadership;
- team development, processes, and effectiveness;
- career development;
- work–family interface;
- work stress, health, and well-being;
- positive and negative work behaviors;
- diversity and cross-cultural differences in work behavior and attitudes;
- technology and work systems;
- expertise and knowledge management;
- creativity, innovation, and adaptation;
- and organizational design, change, and interventions.
The journal also encourages studies of human behavior in novel situations. Specific topics of interest, however, change as organizations evolve and societal views of work change.
Editor & Authors in Attendance
Associate EDITOR
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| Professor Jing Zhou |
Professor of Management
Houston Endowment Professor of Organizational Behavior (effective July 1, 2009)
Director for Asian Management Research and Education
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
Rice University
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Professor Zhou has taught organizational behavior, managing for creativity and innovation, and leadership at undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and Ph.D. levels. Prior to joining the Jones Graduate School, she was an associate professor and Mays Faculty Fellow in the Management Department at the Mays Business School of Texas A&M University, where she received two teaching awards and one research award.
Professor Jing Zhou teaches and does research in organizational behavior and international management. Her current research interests include organizational/contextual and personal factors that promote or inhibit employees’ creativity and innovation, cross-cultural differences in antecedents and consequences of creativity, creativity and entrepreneurship. Her research has been published, or accepted for publication, in such referred journals as Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Creative Behavior, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Personnel Psychology. Her work also appeared in the research series Research Personnel and Human Resource Management, and a practitioner journal HRMagazine. In addition, her work will be published in the Handbook of Organizational Creativity and the International Handbook of Innovation. Currently, she serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Management and Organization Review.
Professor Zhou’s research uses motivational, affective, and cognitive theories to understand individual and team creativity in organizations. Her systematic program of research has addressed central questions such as how organizational and contextual factors (e.g., leadership, supervisory behaviors, coworker behaviors, and feedback or expected evaluation from others) interact with personal factors (e.g., personality, values, goal orientation) to enhance or restrict individual and team creativity. Recent research has also investigated cross-level antecedents of employee creativity. She has received a research award for her excellent in research.
Professor Zhou's teaching interests include organizational behavior, leadership, managing for creativity and innovation, negotiation, global leadership, creativity and entrepreneurship. Professor Zhou has taught organizational behavior, leadership, managing for creativity and innovation, and negotiation at Ph.D. Executive MBA, MBA, and undergraduate levels, as well as to non-degree executive education audiences, and has received two teaching awards for her excellence in teaching.
Professor Zhou is a member of the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and Society for Personality and Social Psychology. She was an Associate Program Chair for the 2002 SIOP annual conference, and the Chair of the Micro Organizational Behavior track of the Academy of International Business 2002 annual conference. She is a founding member of the Asia Academy of Management, and of the International Association on Chinese Management Research. She has served as a consultant to a number of organizations on issues related to promoting employee creativity and innovation.
Please click here to view Jing Zhou's webpage
Please click here to view Jing Zhou's CV
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AUTHOR
PAPER #1
"How do feelings influence effort? An empirical study of entrepreneurs’ affect and venture effort." Journal of Applied Psychology (IN PRESS)
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| Professor Maw-Der Foo |
Assistant Professor of Management & Entrepreneurship
Leeds School of Business
University of Colorado, Boulder
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Maw-Der Foo is an assistant professor of Management and Entrepreneurship in the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses on affect in the workplace and he uses OB concepts to understand how entrepreneurs discover, evaluate and implement business opportunities. He publishes in the major management and entrepreneurship journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Applied Psychology, Management Science, and Strategic Management Journal. He teaches organizational behavior and entrepreneurship courses.
Please click here to view Maw-Der Foo's webpage
Please click here to view Maw-Der Foo's CV
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