Current Events
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- We welcome our new I/O students: Justin, Amanda, and Kristina
- Several of our current research projects have been submitted to the 2011 SIOP conference in Chicago, IL.
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- Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology
- Association for Psychological Sciences
- Academy of Management
- Society of Organizational Behavior
- Northern Kentucky University Regional Conference
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Welcome to Ohio University's Industrial Organizational Psychology homepage. The Industrial Organizational labs are located on the second and third floors of Porter Hall, in Athens Ohio.
For an overview of what our program has to offer, visit the Program Description tab. To see who our faculty and graduate students are, visit the People tab. If you want to see current faculty research projects, visit the Research Projects tab. If you are looking for information about admission or a general time line of what to expect when applying to graduate school, visit the Prospective Students Tab.
OU I/O Psych News
Recently, SIOP took an interest in one of our studies generated in the Griffeth Lab. Below is a brief description of the project and a link the SIOP article that over viewed the project.
We're all familiar with work place absenteeism due to illness and transportation issues caused by poor weather. Believe it or not, a recent study by Fried, Robinson, Griffeth and Hom (2009) revealed that employees are also more likely to miss work when skies are clear and sunny and the weather is warm than under more moderate weather conditions. The authors of the study speculated that higher absenteeism during optimal weather may be due to the increased availability of leisure pursuits (hunting, gardening, sporting activities, etc.).
Click here to read more about this counter-intuitive finding
New I/O Labs
Since the completion of the Porter Hall addition, both Dr. Popovich and Dr. Griffeth have moved into their new labs. With this additional space, we are able to conduct more research meetings and more experiments. Additionally, Dr. Griffeth has just furnished his lab with new computers.
<<New images coming soon>>
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