2004-2005 Annual Report
Natalie Allen, Ph.D., Chair

The membership of CSIOP includes approximately 300 full, student, and associate members.

Throughout the year, CSIOP continued its efforts to communicate widely with its membership as well as with the general public and organizations in the public and private sectors.

CSIOP activities, relevant news, events and job postings were communicated through our four quarterly electronic newsletters, edited by Sunjeev Prakash, through a list serve also managed by Sunjeev, and through our website (http://psychology.uwo.ca/csiop/) maintained by Joan Finegan.

In accordance with our goal to communicate widely the contributions that I/O psychology makes, several CSIOP members contributed to national, regional, and local media reports dealing with various psychological issues in the workplace.

Overall, the 2004 Convention in St. John’s was considered a very successful event and sessions were well attended by CSIOP members. CSIOP highlights included the invited presentations given by Tim Judge and David Campbell and a symposium on Ethics. Many thanks are due to outgoing Program Coordinator, Derek Chapman, for all his efforts in making the 2004 Convention such a success. At the CSIOP annual business meeting, the 2004-2005 CSIOP executive was confirmed.

Consisting of both newly elected and ongoing members, this year’s executive included:

• Tracy Hecht (Membership Coordinator),
• Lisa Keeping (Pre-Convention Workshop),
• Steve Harvey (Program Coordinator),
• Lance Ferris (Student Representative),
• John Tivendell (Secretary-Treasurer),
• Liane Davey (Communications Coordinator),
• Sunjeev Prakash (Newsletter Editor),
• Pat Rowe (Past Chair)
• Marjory Kerr (Chair-Elect)
• and Natalie Allen (Chair).

Many thanks are owed to all executive members for their hard work this year as well as to CSIOP member Sebastien Blanc for the invaluable translation service he provides for the Newsletter and to Joan Finegan for coordinating the CSIOP Website.

In March, 2005, the CSIOP executive held its Long Range Planning meeting at The University of Western Ontario. All executive members were in attendance and several strategic and administrative issues were discussed. It was decided, after much deliberation, that CSIOP’s pre-convention workshops were no longing adding sufficient value to our membership, or, arguably others in the community, and that they would be discontinued.

The 2005 Convention included an extensive CSIOP program with invited speakers, symposia, and several presentations and posters. In addition, we continued our annual tradition of co-hosting a social/ networking event with the Section on Psychology in the Military and sponsored a mentoring opportunity for students that involved both practitioners and academia-based mentors. The RHR Kendall Award was awarded to Lance Ferris, a student from the University of Waterloo, in recognition of his excellent research presented at the Convention. CSIOP is extremely grateful for the continued support of this award by RHR Canada. The Section is also very pleased to have the generous support of SHL North America for our keynote speaker at this year’s Convention, Dr. Frank Landy. Finally, congratulations are due to Joan Finegan who became a Fellow of CPA at the 2005 Convention.