UQ Business School Professor Neal Ashkanasy is the first Australian to be inducted as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).
The President of the 6300-member society, Dr Leaetta Hough, said SIOP Fellows were individuals who had distinguished themselves by their outstanding contributions to the field.
“It is a significant honour granted only to a small percentage of industrial-organisational psychologists,” she said.
“SIOP was established in 1982 and its members are dedicated to applying psychology to people in the workplace.
“This field of psychology tries to understand and measure human behaviour to improve employees’ satisfaction in their work, employers’ ability to select and promote the best people, and to generally make the workplace better for the men and women who work there.
“Professor Ashkanasy’s work on emotions in the workplace is an excellent example of a contribution that has had a significant impact on the field of industrial-organisational psychology.”
Professor Ashkanasy said he was honoured to have been recognised by the Society.
“I came to academia after 18 years working in professional engineering and management,” he said.
“Since becoming an academic, I have worked in schools of psychology, commerce, engineering, management, and business – a sign I think of the pervasive influence of organisational psychology.
“I’m delighted by the award and honoured to have been nominated by four academics whose own work I respect and admire so much.”
Professor Ashkanasy is currently UQ Business School’s Professor of Management and the Director of Research for the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law.
He is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Learning and Education, and sits on the editorial boards of several major journals including the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Applied Psychology: An International Review, and the Journal of Management.
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