1.1 Thelmpc TABLE1.2 Common Job Titles for l-0 Psychologists Staff member,manager,director,vice president of: Personnel Human resources Organizationl planning Personnel development Organizational development Management development Personnel research Employee relations Training Affirmative action Assistant,assocate,full professor of: Psychology Management Organizationa behavior Industrial relations Human resources Corporate consultant Private consultant Research scentist:private sector Research scentist:government Research scentist:military Research scientist:test publisher the application of scientific knowledge is known as the scientist-practitioner model.This does not mean that every practicing I-O psychologist must also be an active researcher or that every I-O psychologist who does research must be an active practitioner.It simply means that science and practice are both important parts of I-O psychology.As an exam- ple,real problems related to medical accidents and mistakes in operating rooms lead to research on safety culture in hospitals.Similarly,university-based research on team train- ing is tested in hospital environments.An excellent popular version of the scientist- practitioner model can be seen in the TV show CSl:Crime Scene Investigation.A badly decomposed body is found and a team of forensic practitioners (ie,the detectives)bring back samples of clothing.skin,teeth,and so forth to the laboratory for analysis (by the scientists).Sometimes they do their own analysis and sometimes they have more skilled colleagues do the analysis.But regardless of who actually does the analysis,it is done for one reason-to find the murderer.I-O psychology is a bit less exciting than detective work,but the underlying motivation is the same-to address a real issue or problem in the workplace. 1-0 Psychology's ontributions to Society I-O psychologists have become increasingly interested in building sustainable and environ- mentally conscious organizations(Huffman,Watrons-Rodriguez,Henning,Berry,2009). Several 1-O psychologists have described efforts to lead the way in helping organizations to be more sustainable (e.g..DuBoisDuBois,2010;Jackson Seo,2010).Some of these efforts include organizational initiatives that were implemented for traditional business Scanned by CamScannerScanned by CamScanner