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I-O Psychology and Technology: Why Reinvent the Wheel?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

Matt C. Howard ,
Steven D. Travers ,
Chad J. Marshall  and
Joshua E. Cogswell
Matt C. Howard*
Affiliation:
The University of South Alabama
Steven D. Travers
Affiliation:
Travers Consulting and The University of South Alabama
Chad J. Marshall
Affiliation:
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center and The University of South Alabama
Joshua E. Cogswell
Affiliation:
The University of South Alabama
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Matt C. Howard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Marketing and Quantitative Methods, The University of South Alabama, 337 Mitchell College of Business, Mobile, AL 36695. E-mail: Mhoward@SouthAlabama.edu
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Morelli, Potosky, Arthur, and Tippins (2017) make a timely and appropriate call for authors to create conceptual models of technology in industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology. We agree with their call, but we believe that Morelli et al. overlooked the contributions of related fields that conduct research on technology in the workplace that are already consistent with their call. For this reason, we briefly detail other fields that commonly study the dynamics of technology and its influence on the workplace, followed by a discussion regarding the place of I-O psychology in the broader scheme of technology research. This discussion can aid future authors in conceptualizing appropriate contributions to the study of technology in I-O psychology as well as identifying whether these contributions benefit other fields. Perhaps more importantly, this discussion can help identify where I-O psychology fits in the broader scheme of technology research and which associated fields may be most readily available to aid in the creation of new models—two questions that currently seem unanswered.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 659 - 668
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2017 

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