The Canadian Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology in collaboration with RHR is sponsoring the RHR Kendall Award, our annual competition to recognize outstanding papers by undergraduate and graduate CSIOP student members. The winner of this award will receive a prize of $500. The award is named in honour of Dr. Lorne Kendall, a Canadian psychologist and member of CPA whose work on job satisfaction and various psychometric issues contributed greatly to the field of Industrial Organizational Psychology.

All papers, posters, and presentations accepted in any part of the CSIOP program of the annual convention of CPA submitted by graduate or undergraduate students are eligible. To be considered for the award students most submit a full paper as outlined below. The work must have been carried out by a student but may be part of a larger research program directed by someone else. The student must also be first author on the paper submitted.

Papers will be reviewed anonymously by three CSIOP members representing both industry and academia. Submissions will be judged by the following criteria:

1. Quality of conceptual background
2. Clarity of problem definition
3. Methodological rigour (omitted for theoretical/review papers)
4. Appropriateness of interpretations/conclusion
5. Clarity of presentation

Entrants must submit a summary paper that adheres to these entry guidelines and provide a letter (e-mail acceptable) from a faculty member certifying that the paper was written by a student. The name of the author(s) should appear only on the title page of the paper. The title page should also show the authors' affiliations, mailing addresses, e-mail and telephone numbers. Papers are to be no more than 15 double-spaced pages, including title page, abstract, tables, figures, notes, and references. Papers should be prepared according to the current edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

Entries (papers and letters from the faculty members) must be received by May 1, 2007. Winning papers will be announced at the CSIOP business meeting at the CPA Conference in Ottawa.

Questions about the award process may be directed to Dr. Lori Francis, CSIOP Conference Program Co-ordinator (Lori.Francis@smu.ca).

Entries should be submitted on or before May 1, 2007 with the subject field indicating “RHR Kendall Award” electronically to the CSIOP Chair Elect Dr. Steve Harvey at sharvey@ubishops.ca.

Pierce, Gardner, Cummings, and Dunham`s (1989) Organization-Based Self-Esteem (OBSE) measure professes to be a more proximal and valid predictor of work outcomes than measures of global self-esteem. However, self-esteem has recently been conceptualized in the organizational literature as an indicator of a higher-order trait, core self-evaluations (CSE; Judge, Erez, Bono, & Thoresen, 2003). This new insight into our conceptualization of self-perceptions may have implications for the predictive validity of OBSE, whose incremental predictive validity has not been evaluated against CSE (and vice-versa). The present study assesses the relative importance of OBSE and CSE in the prediction of job satisfaction and affective commitment. Results support the utility of both variables, although a dominance analysis confirmed OBSE as the dominant predictor. Additional analyses suggest OBSE partially mediates the effects of CSE.