We believe Personnel Psychology is well positioned to address this gap between science and practice. Most of the practitioners we know see themselves as scientists-practitioners, and hence value critical analysis and peer review. We want this section of our journal to evolve to meet their concerns, while at the same time stimulating research ideas for the main section of the journal. This new title signals a new direction for the section. The ideas that we describe below were formed during conversations with a number of our colleagues.
Articles can address virtually any topic that concerns practitioners.
Although we do not want to prematurely constrain the possible topics or forms that submissions might take, a few examples may be helpful. This would help other practitioners identify those trends that are merely fads versus those that offer real value to practitioners. This would be similar to benchmarking best practices. This would not be a review such as those found in Academy of Management Review or Psychological Bulletin . Submissions will then be assigned to reviewers and forwarded to James Smither, the Associate Editor in charge of this section of the journal.