A Publication of the Industrial/Organizational Psychology Program Department of Psychology • Minnesota State University • Mankato, MN 56001

January 2009

MSU I/O Update

Who We Are...

I/O Program Faculty: Andi Lassiter, Ph.D.

Lisa Perez, Ph.D. Dan Sachau, Ph.D.

Affiliated Faculty:

Kristie Campana

Newsletter Editor: Josh Wittrock

Alumni Advisory Panel:

Carrie Demay Data Recognition Corp.

John Congemi Best Buy

Carol Lynn Courtney, Ph.D. Courtney Consulting Tanya Gilbertson

Target Doug Molitor

3M Patti Naas Ameriprise

Dick Olson, Ph.D. Olson Consulting

Darcey Price UnitedHealth Group

John Zehr Target

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Minnesota State University 23 Armstrong Hall

Mankato, MN 56001

Office Location: 332 Wiecking Center Office: 507-389-2724

Fax: 507-389-1099 Website: www.mnsu.edu/iopsych

I/O students and faculty from MSU, UNI and Saint Cloud State toured the Gallup Headquarters in Omaha. Nate Dvorack, an MSU alum, arranged the trip. The folks at

Gallup were gracious hosts. Speakers included: Matt Mosser – Chief of Worldwide Talent Resources Gale Muller – Vice Chairman, Research and Development Emily Meyer – Practice Manager, Strengths Alignment Jan Miller – Strategic Consultant Tom Rath – Workplace Practice Leader. Best selling author. Jim Harter – Chief Scientist, Workplace Well-Being Jessica Tyler – Practice Manager, Employee Engagement

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New Six Sigma Course

Tilman Sheets is battling Hodgkin's Lym-phoma - and he is winning the fight. Tilman is now the Chair of the Psychology Department at Louisiana Tech University. Send him your

good wishes at tilman@latech.edu.

Kim O’Farrell left the Psychology Depart-ment this year and moved to California. We were very sad to see her go. She is now engaged to Eric ___, You can reach her at:

kimofarrell@ca.rr.com

Kimberly O’Farrell Departs

Kelly Coumbe is teaching a new Six Sigma course for the I/O students. Kelly is a Six Sigma Black Belt who works for ING in Minneapolis. Kelly is a graduate of MSU and Cal State San Ber-nardino. Students who complete the course will earn a Six Sigma

Green Belt.

Alumni Focus: Ana Velez, Mercer Human Resources Consulting

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It feels nice to say hello again, this time from Bogota, Colombia. I am very excited to be back in my home country with my daughter Sofia, who is now 5 years old and goes to the same school I graduated from. After 8 years abroad in Canada, the United States and Honduras, I can tell you that Co-lombia feels like the best place to be. I would like to express how lucky I feel about the opportunities I have had since graduating from MSU. I have worked mainly in Human Resources Departments in the Banking industry. I started out at Key Bank in Cleve-land, Ohio, performing as an intern on the Website Development team. A year later, I moved to Honduras to join CABEI (Central American Bank of Economic Integration), a development bank with holdings in 9 member countries from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe. From a large group of candidates, I was selected as the Colombian representative to the Young Professionals Program, where I worked as an HR analyst. The Bank was an excellent place to learn. Here, the HR team performed all HR proc-esses in a professional and transparent fashion. Furthermore, we needed to be extremely careful about how we administered basic processes. Having access to the “best of the best” talent across 9 countries, you can imagine how our complex our selection criteria were, particularly when facing the need to defend HR principles above and beyond any possible country laws and regulations. This was not a rare situation in an environment where politics are always present and where stakeholders are often govern-ment representatives. I next accepted an offer from Grupo Financiero Ficohsa, a main Financial Group in Honduras known for its dynamism and creativity. In this firm, I acted as the Training and Development Manager within the HR Corpo-rate team. The Group consists of a private bank, an insurance group, and a variety of smaller financial compa-nies. Among my responsibilities, I was asked to develop a plan to take the group to a certifiable level in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility; though challenging, this was one project that I particularly enjoyed. After three and a half months of strategy design, team preparation, and implementation, the Group was certi-fied with the Socially Responsible Organization seal (Sello ESR-Empresa Socialmente Responsable) by FUN-DAHRSE (Fundacion Hondureña de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial). We were especially proud of this accomplishment as we were one of seven corporations in Honduras awarded this recognition. A few months ago, I accepted an opportunity in Bogota, Colombia with Mercer Human Resources Consulting. I now serve as the Regional Business Partner for Latin America in the Health and Benefits line of business. My job consists of identifying strategic HR needs, helping the business to address them, and facilitating the fulfilment of business objectives through people. I am excited to learn from the very interesting people that I have known throughout eight Latin American countries in the Health and Benefits Joint Venture. I believe that, as we stay open to learning, our opportunities broaden and we become better professionals and human beings. If anyone would like to reach me, feel free to write me an e-mail at ana.velez@mercer.com Best of luck to all of you!

The OERG is the consulting arm of the I/O program. Students and faculty serve as consultants to local and national organizations providing HR and research consulting services. Faculty and students donate their time and we use the funds from the pro-jects to pay for student trips, activities, and equipment. This year OERG funds helped pay for office equipment , SIOP, IOOB, new computers, site visits, speakers, and inter-

national trips.

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SIOP 2008 - San Francisco

MSU I/O students work as volunteers prior to the conference. Class of 2004 reunites at the alumni party.

Locations of I/O Program Trips, Tours and Site Visits

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Movers and Shakers 2008

Andrea Larson is now Senior Analyst, HR Decision Support at Merck & Co., Inc . Christine Staneck was Married June 21, 2008 in Santa Barbara, CA to Jean-Philippe Sitbon. She is now Christine Sitbon and is a still Manager at Project Management Office at Baxter BioSci-ence in Thousand Oaks, CA. Tera Brown married Charlie King in June. She is now Tera King. Christine Davis is Product Implementation Analyst for the Soft-ware Solutions Group at Wilson Learning. Mahlia Nguyen Matsch (Right) won the 2008 College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Thesis of the Year Award. She then went on to win the MSU Thesis of the Year Award. Paul Eichberger is now Project Manager for

South Central College in North Mankato, MN Nancy Branton wrote an e-book entitled People Man-agement Primer: Coaching Leaders to be Principled Leaders

that Create Thriving Workplaces Lisa Stevens (Left) Execu-tive Consultant, and Director of Strategy and Talent Man-agement Consulting. She is also an expert speaker for The Conference Board's Succession Manage-ment conferences for the last two years. Darcey Schoen-beck gave birth to Eryn Rae Schoenebeck. Darcey has left UnitedHealth Group and now working at Prime

Therapeutics. Her new title is Engagement Princi-ple. Angela Lins got married on May 23rd, 2008, to Tim Christman. Her new name is Angela Lins Christ-man. Kirsten Melby married Tim Michalke on April 5. Kirsten is Director of Workforce Development at Northland College. Jolene Kleeve Meyer and Dustin had a baby boy named Jace. Jolene was promoted to a Solution Design Consultant at PreVisor. Pam and John Congemi had a baby, Elise Claire.

Justin Bethke mar-ried Jen Newhouse, right in Au-gust. Justin moved to a Consultant position on the Survey Research and Strategy Team at Tar-get. Jen works at Cargill. Bruce Barthalow re-ceived the Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychophysiology from the So-ciety for Psychophysiological Research. In addi-tion, Bruce currently has 12 publications. Robert Allan is Assistant Director for Student Programs and the Assistant Director for the Ma-rine Resource Management Program at the Col-lege of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science in Ore-gon. Andy Dybvig traveled to Nigeria in No-vember touring schools, orphanages, an organi-zation for women with AIDs, hospitals, clinics, villages, and churches. Teresa Hopke is now National Director of Talent Management for RSM McGladrey. Ric Cedarholm works for enetrix. Enetrix was acquired by Gallup in December and will now operate as Gallup Enetrix. Todd Walther is now Director of Learning and Devel-opment for Under Armor and he is teaching I/O Psychol-ogy at the University of Baltimore. Patti Naas (Right) was promoted to Director, Employee Surveys/Org. Development. Lance Andrews moved from Select International to Pre-visor. Katie Oien FINALLY got married! And she is now Katie Lunsford. She left Accenture to start her own small consulting firm. Congratula-tions to all the MSU alumni and friends.

I/O Program Visit to South Africa May 2008

In May, 25 students and faculty from the Construction Management , I/O Psychology and Clinical Psychology Programs traveled to South Africa to participate in a service learning project. The trip was lead by Scott Fee. Dr. Fee is an Assistant Professor in the Construction Management program at MSU. Students spent a week in Karatara, South Africa working on development projects for Eden Campus. Eden Campus is Af-rica’s first rural enterprise free rural eco-business school for entrepreneurs. Students completed a variety of projects on campus and developed long lasting ties with the students and staff at Eden Campus. We

would like to offer special thanks to Nidhi Chaitow for her help with group process, tai chi, and tour guiding

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Upper left, moving clockwise. Ashley Johnson with Eden students. Chris Durand, Nihdi Chaitow and Bill Ger-ber. Yes that’s a rhino in front of our Rangerover. Luke Simmering on Steve Carver’s Farm. MSU and Eden-Campus students during a drumming

session on our first night on campus. Scott Fee and three Eden Campus stu-

dents are on the cover.

Kids Against Hunger 2008

2008-2009 Incoming Students

Consigliore

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Students in the clinical and I/O psychology pro-grams volunteered at the Mankato Kids Against Hunger. The I/O Program donated $500 and the students collectively bagged over 15,000 meals. The meals will be distributed to kids who would otherwise starve if not for the food.

2008 Saint Award — Pari Becker

Joseph Wohkittel, University of Minnesota. Eric Garvey, University of Minnesota. Whitney Smith, Indiana University. Craig Talmage, University of Arizona. Marquita Oleson, DePaul University. She-rian Kurian, U. of St. Thomas - Houston, TX. Benjamin Divine, University of Utah. Lynn Hartmann, University of Wisconsin - River Falls. Michael Taylor, Alvernia College. Masakatsu (Bob) Ono, Soka

University of America. Nicole Keehn, University of Wisconsin - Parkside.

Joshua Wittrock is this year’s consigliore. He has done a super job as TA, party organ-

izer, & trip planner. Thanks Josh.

This year’s Alumni Saint Award goes to Pari Becker. Pari set-up an in-ternship and served as speaker at the Fall Confer-ence. In addition to this, she spoke at the MSU Collo-quium Series, and she hosted the Consulting Chal-lenge. Oh yes, she also helped Cargill win the Mal-colm Baldrige National Qual-

ity Award!

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I/O Speaker Series

IOOB Conference Students participated in the Industrial/Organizational, Organizational Behavior (IOOB) Conference in Denver, CO. Second-year stu-

dents presented research and attended sessions.

Cargill Corn Milling hosted the 2008 Consulting Chal-lenge. Teams comprised of students from MSU, UNI and St. Cloud State participated in the three day event.

Pari Becker was the host this year.

Kristie Campana, Associate Professor, MSU, Kelly Coumbe, M. A., Six Sigma Black Belt, ING. Connie Wanberg, Ph.D., Director of IR Center, Chair of HRIR Program University of Minnesota

Rod McCloy, Ph.D., Principle Staff Scientist, HumRRO Michael Anderson – CPP

Winning Team, Ashley Johnson MSU, Kasha Lashley,

UNI, and john Kennan, Jr. SCSU.

Nate Dvorak, Mahlia Matsch, Jeremy Jones Jessica Gertz, Jenny Gill, Aimee Pierce, Mike Pate, Beth Peters, Ashley Stanoch, Alexis

Tange, & Corey Woods. Not in order.

Graduating Class

2008 Consulting Challenge

Social Events 2008

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Clockwise from the upper left: MSU Big Bobber Ice Fishing Tour-nament, Gradua-tion Dinner, Fall Conference, Hal-loween Party and

Christmas Party.

Bane, D., Lehman, J., Lassiter, A., & Wagstrom, L. (2008, March). Effectiveness of the Take-Care – Use Antibiotics Responsibly™ Program to influence antibiotic use behaviors and attitudes among pork producers. Paper presented at the American Association of Swine Veterinarians Annual

Meeting, San Diego, CA. Durando, M., & Perez, L. M. (2008, March). Exploring the link between incivility and counterproductive work behaviors. Paper presented at

the Work, Stress, & Health 2008 Conference, Washington DC. Dvorak, N. & Jones, J. (2008, March) Guided Practice: Putting to use scientist-practitioner skills. In A. L. R. Lassiter (Chair) Practicing what

we preach: Examples of academic-practice experiences. Symposium submitted for 2008 SIOP Conference, San Francisco, CA. Dvorak, N., & Lassiter, A. (2008, March). A two-year longitudinal evaluation of a leadership development program: Leadership behaviors and Job

Satisfaction. Paper submission for the 29th Annual IOOB Conference, Denver, CO. Gertz, J., Matsch, M. & Sachau D. (2008, March ). How perceptions of fairness affect turnover intentions of Airmen in the United States Air

Force. Paper presented at the 29th Annual IOOB Conference, Denver, CO. Gill, J., & Lassiter, A. (2008, March). Examining job embeddedness in public sector employees. Paper presented at the 29th Annual IOOB Con-

ference, Denver, CO. Jones, J. & Perez, L. (2008, March). Secondary traumatic stress, burnout and social support among law enforcement agents exposed to violent

and disturbing media images. Paper presented at the 29th Annual IOOB Conference, Denver, CO. Larson, A., & Sachau, D. (In press). Effects of incentives and the Big Five on Internet panelists’ product ratings. International Journal of Market

Research. Matsch, M., Gertz, J. & Sachau, D. (2008, March). Antecedents of spousal support for Special Investigation Agents of the United States Air

Force. Paper presented at the 29th Annual IOOB Conference, Denver, CO. Meyer, K. D., & Foster, J. L. (2008). Considerations for creating multi-language personality norms: A three-component model of error. International

Journal of Testing, 8(4), 384. O’Farrell, K. J. (2008). Secret tests of relationship status. In S. K. Sprecher and H. Reis (Eds). Encyclopedia of Human Relationships. Perez, L, Jones, J., Englert, D., & Sachau, D. (2008). Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout, and Turnover Intentions among Law Enforcement Agents Exposed to Violent and Disturbing Media Images. Paper presented at the 2008 Meeting of the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology,

Walnut Creek, CA. Pate, M., & O’Farrell, K. J. (2008, March). From satisfaction to support: Job status and satisfaction with professional development opportunities

predict perceived organizational support. Paper presented at the 29th Annual IOOB Conference, Denver, CO. Peters, B. & Sachau, D. (2008, March). Linking employee and customer satisfaction in a healthcare setting. Paper presented at the 29th Annual

IOOB Conference, Denver, CO.

Faculty, Student & Alumni Publications, Presentations and Posters

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Pierce, A., & Lassiter, A. (2008, March). Older adults and professional development trends: Data from the field. Paper presented at the 29th

Annual IOOB Conference, Denver, CO. Roybal, A. J. & Lassiter, A.L.R. (2008). Examining organizational commitment and turnover in a military sample. Poster presented at the 2008

SIOP Conference, San Francisco, CA. Sachau, D., Andrews, L., Gibson, B., & DeNeui, D. (2009). Tournament validity: Testing golfer competence. Measurement in Physical Education

and Exercise Science. 13. Sachau, D. (2008, September). Short-term study abroad programs. In G.H. Newman (Chair) Strategies for InternationalizingPsychological Educa-

tion. Plenery session at the 2008 American Psychological Association Educational Leadership Conference, Washington, DC. Stanoch, A., Page, J., Perez, L., & Page, C. (2008, March). Cognitive processes in professional police drivers: Does stress effect attentional

narrowing? Paper presented at the 29th Annual IOOB Conference, Denver, CO. Tange, A. and Perez, L. (2008, March). Personality as a Moderator of the Job Stress-Need for Recovery Relationship. Paper presented at the 29th

Annual IOOB Conference, Denver, CO. Woods, C. & Norasakkunkit, V. (2008, March). The moderating effects of self- construal on the relationship of fear of negative evaluation and

flow. Paper presented at the 29th Annual IOOB Conference, Denver, CO. Beacom, A. (2009). Career Stages, Job Embeddedness, and Turnover Intentions in Public Sector Employees. Paper submitted to the 2009 IOOB

Conference, Chicago, IL. Gerber, B. (2009). Paper submitted to the 30th Annual IOOB Conference, Chicago, IL.. Gordon, N., & Sachau, D. (2009). A new measure of academic job engagement. Paper submitted to the 30th Annual2009 IOOB Conference,

Chicago, IL. Harm, C. D. & (2009). Abusive Supervision: The Role of Coworker Support.. Paper submitted to the 30th Annual IOOB Conference, Chicago,

IL. Johnson, A. & Sachau, D. (2009) The Relationship between Identification, Embeddedness, and Turnover Intentions at the Organizational and

Occupational Levels. Paper submitted to the 30th Annual IOOB Conference, Chicago, IL. Lagle, S. (2009). Rewards and rebates: Examining the utility of gains and savings in a consumer context Paper submitted to the 30th

Annual IOOB Conference, Chicago, IL. Simmering, L. (2009). Paper submitted to the 30th Annual IOOB Conference, Chicago, IL. Skelton, A. (2009). Applicant reactions to selection systems: a field study. Paper submitted to the 30th Annual IOOB Conference, Chicago, IL. Zarns, N. (2009). My title is "Negative work events, mood, and motivation: The role of core self-evaluations. Paper submitted to the 30th Annual

IOOB Conference, Chicago, IL. Wittrock, J. & Sachau, D. (2009). Antecedents of retention: A critical examination of engagement and embeddedness. Paper submitted to the

30th Annual IOOB Conference, Chicago, IL.

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MSU I/O Program Welcomes Kristie Campana

Kristie is just finishing up her first semester at MNSU, after teaching graduate-level statistics and undergraduate research methods courses. Next semester she will focus on teaching Introduction to Psychology and more research methods courses , and she would like to develop a course on negotia-tion and conflict in the near future. She enjoys working on research examining relationships in the workplace, and how they can help enrich or damage individuals' satisfaction and well-being. She also loves working with students on research pro-jects. Furthermore, she is focused on helping stu-dents become better writers to help them differenti-ate themselves once they enter the work world. When she's not working, Kristie likes to knit, run, and cook.

Carol Lynn Courtney and Dick Olson

We have been very fortunate this year that Carol Lynn Court-ney, President of Courtney Consulting, and Dick Olson, Presi-dent of Olson Consulting (right) have worked closely with students and staff in the I/O program. Drs. Olson and Court-ney have proven to be outstanding professional coaches for the students, advisors for the faculty, and travel partners for all of us. In fact, Carol Lynn even started a new band, and filled it with I/O psychologists including our own graduate JR Rowenhorst. Learn more about The Options at http://

www.myspace.com/theoptionsmpls.

Special thanks goes out to Bob Hoffman, VP for Strategic Partnerships, Ann Goebel, Director of Twin Cities Part-nerships, and John Frey, Director of Business and In-

dustry Partnerships for their help establishing consulting projects and research partnerships between the I/O Pro-

gram and businesses in Minnesota.

Special thanks may, or may not, go to Jer-emy, Nate, Corey and Nate for their help

“preserving “ the office.

Industrial/Organizational Psychology Program

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