The 8 open-ended questions were generated by Executive Committee members and appear in Table 1. Open-Ended Survey Items 1. The previously used items were reviewed by a sample of academics and practitioners and by Executive Committee members for their quality and relevance to today. A few changes were made to the items for both psychometric and relevance reasons. The final list of items appears in Table 2.
Specific changes made to the items appear in the table notes.
Questionnaires were sent by mail to all SIOP Members, Fellows, and Associates. Table 3 shows the numbers of the breakdown of the number of questionnaires distributed. It is noteworthy that the questionnaire was not distributed to student members and that the results need to be interpreted accordingly. This is nearly double the number of respondents in 1996, though SIOP's membership has grown considerably since the last survey. Table 3 shows that Respondents represented the various work context areas in which I-O psychologists work.