This document discusses three topics related to cutting edge research that industrial-organizational psychologists could be doing more of. First, there is relevant scholarship published in conference proceedings that could also be published in journals. Second, alternative employment arrangements like temporary work and contracting are a fast growing area. Third, social media provides new opportunities for data collection that can complement surveys.

1. Discussion

2. The Obligatory
These are Discussantefforts, and
really nice research
SIOPers could be doing a lot more of this
cutting edge work
Weidner et al., Schmidt et al., and Nguyen
& Siu, are in one genre, whereas Landers &
Callan is in another genre
Both kinds of work are needed and relevant
to SIOP, but my comments below pertain
more to the former genre and less to the
latter

3. Three Things: #1
There's a lot of scholarship in this area
(some of it good) that appears in
conference proceedings instead of journals:
CSCW, iConference, ACM SIGCHI,
and HCI International... We need them
AND they need us!

4. Three Things:#2
Alternative and non-
traditional employment
arrangements are one of
the fastest areas of job
growth
Temps, independent
contractors, contracted
services, eLancers
The boundary between
work and non-work use of
social media may (have
already) become much
more fluid

5. Three Things: #3
Social networking and social media provide
powerful new opportunities for data
collection and analysis that can complement
the use of employee surveys
Example: "twitteR" provides a simple DIY
interface for extracting structured data
from Twitter for statistical and/or text
analysis (using the free and open source R
statistics platform)