Keynote speaker for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Frank J. Landy, Ph.D.
CEO - Litigation Support: SHL North America
Colorado, USA
 

Taking the OR out of PredictOR
The promise of incremental prediction

Psychometrics as applied to workplace prediction has been characterized by the search for the single best predictor. For 70 years, that predictor was thought to be general mental ability. More recent research has demonstrated that specific mental abilities, personality, knowledge, and interest/value measurement can add to and often exceed the contribution of general mental ability to the prediction of future performance. This becomes most clear when the criterion space is parsed beyond the typical levels of "overall" or composite performance. When facets of performance such as technical, contextual, adaptive, and counter-productive are considered separately, the relationships between predictor sets and criteria become considerably stronger. Through an examination of recent meta-analyses and bivariate analyses, an optimistic view of the future of psychometric assessment in the personnel decision process will be outlined.

Dr. Frank Landy, Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Bowling Green State University, is a well-known practitioner, scientist, and lecturer in the field of industrial psychology. Among his many areas of expertise are test validation, job analysis, performance measurement, employment litigation, and human factors litigation. Dr. Landy has appeared as an expert witness in employment discrimination and human factors litigation for plaintiffs and defendants and in this capacity has worked for the Department of Labor, Department of Justice, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In addition to his position as head of the SHL Litigation Practice: Litigation Support Services, Dr. Landy, a Fulbright Scholar, is a retired Professor Emeritus of Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University, and has served as the President of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), where he worked closely with the Department of Justice, EEOC and other policy-level groups in the drafting, revision and interpretation of employment-related litigation (e.g., ADA, ADEA, Civil Rights Act of 1991). He has authored scores of articles, book chapters and books in the area of Industrial/Organizational Psychology and has a new textbook for McGraw Hill, entitled “Work in the 21st Century” on Industrial/Organizational Psychology that was published in 2003. In his “off” hours, Frank is an avid long distance runner and fly fisherman.