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We Found Them! The Practitioner Role in Expanding the Generalizability of Findings in I-O Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2016

Adam S. Beatty  and
Philip T. Walmsley
Adam S. Beatty*
Affiliation:
Human Resources Research Organization, Alexandria, Virginia
Philip T. Walmsley
Affiliation:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Washington, DC
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Adam S. Beatty, Human Resources Research Organization, 66 Canal Center Plaza, Suite 700, Alexandria, VA 22314-1591. E-mail: abeatty@humrro.org
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The purpose of our commentary is to expand the conversation started by the focal article (Bergman & Jean, 2016) by providing a practitioner perspective, especially focusing on practitioners who work in a government or military context. We believe this perspective is valuable because (a) interventions and research projects involving nonprofessional/nonmanagement workers are already regularly being conducted in this context; (b) there are likely to be other causes of a lack of focus on broader populations of workers in this context than those highlighted by the focal article, some of which may differ between practitioners and academics; and (c) we believe practitioners in this context have much to contribute to solving the potential problems that the focal article highlights.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 181 - 187
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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