Review
"The chapter authors appear to be very knowledgeable about their topics and, in many cases, did a lot of background work to get the details the chapters contain, especially the early chapters on people and places important to the history."
—Benjamin Schneider
Senior Research Fellow, Valtera Corporation, University of Maryland (Emeritus)
"I believe all graduate students in IO psychology should have a copy of this book. The book provides a rich basis for an undergraduate or graduate survey course in IO psychology."
—Jeanette N. Cleveland
Pennsylvania State University
"This is a unique volume. No other work of which I am aware provides this important background. Laura Koppes and the Associate Editors are uniquely qualified to edit this book, both from background and documented interest."
—William Macey
Valtera Corporation
"There is a crying need for this book in the psychology curriculum. There is no survey of IO as comprehensive as this. Given the enormous impact IO has had on modern society, I believe many teachers will assign this volume as required reading."
—Richard T. von Mayrhauser
University of California at Berkeley
"This unique collection is the first to contain a comprehensive history of industrial and organizational psychology, covering numerous topics in the discipline. The history presented offers various perspectives including the contribution of individuals, organizations, contextual and situational forces, as well as an international viewpoint." - Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment
About the Author
Laura L. Koppesis owner/president of LK Associates, a human resources, organizational development, and leadership consulting firm. Prior to full-time consulting, she worked in higher education, with the most recent appointment as associate vice president of institutional effectiveness and associate professor of industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology. As a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, she taught and conducted research at the University of Hradec Králové and University of Pardubice in the Czech Republic. Laura established the position of Historian for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and contributed to the preservation of SIOP’s history and I-O psychology through international and national presentations, publications, and other documents. She served as Membership Chair on the Executive Committee of the Society for the History of Psychology (American Psychological Association-Division 26). Her interests include leadership, organizational effectiveness, motivation, cross-cultural differences, climate and culture (making great places to work), and history of I-O psychology. She is a member of SIOP and is currently the Editor of
TIP(
The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist). She is also a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the International Association for Applied Psychology, and the Society for Human Resources Management. She earned her B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. in I-O psychology from The Ohio State University.
