Educating Industrial–Organizational Psychologists for Practice and Science: Where Not to Go

摘要

We want to start our response to Byrne et al.'s (2014) focal article by commending the authors for challenging the status quo that exists today for the training and development of graduate students in industrial–organizational (I–O) psychology. As applied psychologists working internal to large corporations and former interns in various internal and external organizations, we agree with the need for I–O psychology to (a) evaluate its value proposition relative to other fields with which I–O psychologists compete for jobs, (b) think more holistically about how we are training and developing students, and (c) enable students to be more relevant upon starting applied or academic positions.