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My Column in TIP
On January 16, 2008 by Jamie Madigan
The column that I co-author in The Industrial Psychologist is now up. Actually, it's been up for a while, I've just forgotten to mention it.
In this issue, my part of the column focuses on a series of articles in a recent Academy of Management Journal that themselves focus on the Scientist/Practitioner divide. There's some interesting stuff there, and I recommend the series of articles if you have easy access to AMJ (it's from volume 50, which I think came out in late in 2007). A lot of pretty smart people took a stab at not only solutions to the scientist/practitioner problem, but at speculation about whether or not the divide actually exists in the first place, as well. One of the repeated themes is "teach, teach, use your own research to teach your students and your executive education clients). This makes a lot of sense to me. One of the authors made the very good point that academics should seek to open their loop, so to speak, by seeking out audiences and collegues outside of their normal circles. Look, don't just show your tidy little correlation matrix to your research assistants and your department chair --figure out how to get your findings into the heads of more people running businesses or other organizations. It's not easy and it's most definitely NOT routinely encouraged by the academic reward systems ("publish or perish," as the saying goes), but it's more in line with the mission of I/O Psychology than a lot of things you could do.
Anyway, read the whole column here. And as a side note, this is the first column where I finally got rid of that awful, awful photograph of me that accompanies each publication of the column. It was a full-on snapshot hastily taken with a cheap digital camera, and though I always thought I looked like some goofball instead of someone who actually knows what he's talking about I never seemed to get around to replacing it until now. The reason I was able to is that I had taken a photography class (a hobby of mine) and in one session we worked in a studio with proper studio lighting. When they asked for a volunteer I jumped at it, stipulating that I'd like a copy of the pics.
So, big improvement. I did, however, briefly consider going with this version of the portrait, which resulted when the front flashes failed to fire:
It's got kind of a "Mystery Date" vibe going, no?
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