How to Conduct and Publish High-Quality Research in Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Edited by Nathan A. Bowling, Professor of Psychology, Mindy K. Shoss, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida and Zhiqing E. Zhou, Associate Professor, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA

‘Bowling, Shoss, and Zhou have assembled a brilliant and diverse group of experts who generously share their hard-earned insights in this excellent collection. It’s a resource that researchers at every career stage will find themselves returning to frequently as they design, conduct, and publish their work.’

• ContentsPreface xvPART I SELECTING RESEARCH TOPICS1 What is an I-O journal and an overview of the editorial process 2Wiston A. Rodriguez and Zhiqing E. Zhou2 History of publishing in industrial-organizational psychology 21Michael J. Zickar3 Doing what matters: how to select a compelling research topic 31Nathan A. Bowling and Moses Rivera4 Selecting the right journal for your paper 43Tammy D. Allen and Joseph Regina5 There’s nothing so testable as a strong theory 53Roger Sansom and Mindy E. Bergman6 Collaborative efforts in science: the science of team science inaction 64Roni Reiter-Palmon and William S. Kramer7 Collaborating and co-authoring 78L. A. WittPART II SELECTING AND USING COMPELLINGRESEARCH METHODS8 High-quality survey-based research in I-O psychology 89Nathan M. Baker and Chu-Hsiang (Daisy) Chang9 Longitudinal designs: describing and predicting change 104Duygu Biricik Gulseren and E. Kevin Kelloway10 Conducting and publishing research with experience samplingmethods 116YoungAh Park and Sooyeol Kim11 The role of experimental studies in furthering I-O psychologyresearch: a focus on field studies 132Krista J. Brockwood, Leslie B. Hammer, and Todd Bodner12 Mixing methods is like mixing motor oil: the benefits andchallenges of internal replications with multiple and mixedmethods 146In-Sue Oh13 Secondary analysis: large, archival databases and big data 171Gwenith G. Fisher, Kimberly A. French, and Joshua Prasad14 Conducting and publishing high-quality meta-analyses inindustrial-organizational psychology 185Deniz S. Ones and Chockalingam Viswesvaran15 Multilevel research designs 220Jonas W. B. Lang and Paul D. Bliese16 How to conduct high-quality psychology research using webscraping and APIs 242Richard N. Landers, Saron Demeke, and Vivien Lee17 How to publish a computational modeling paper 255Jeffrey B. Vancouver18 Publishing qualitative research 272Irvin Sam Schonfeld and Joseph J. Mazzola19 Cultural considerations in organizational research: currentinsights and future directions 289Richard L. Griffith, Xiaowen Chen, and Dominic J. Fedele20 Crowdsourcing: a modern tool for robust research sampling 307Jesse S. Michel, Gargi Sawhney, Gwendolyn Paige Watson,and Robert R. SinclairPART III WRITING STRONG MANUSCRIPTS21 From the horses’ mouths: editor ratings of ethical violationsin author submissions to top I-O psychology journals 329Logan L. Watts and Joel Lefkowitz22 Leveraging open science to conduct high-quality research 347Cort W. Rudolph and Hannes Zacher23 Identifying and avoiding common publishing mistakes 360Lillian T. Eby24 The art of being rejected 374Mindy K. Shoss and Mark G. EhrhartPART IV BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL RESEARCHER ANDATTAINING IMPACT25 Building research networks: a guide for graduate students andjunior faculty members 384Rachel Williamson Smith, Cynthia K. Maupin, andMalissa A. Clark26 Leveraging motivational principles to become a successfulresearcher 393Steve M. Jex and Thomas W. Britt27 Building a research pipeline 409Jason L. Huang and Dongyuan Wu28 Promoting your research in the digital age 420Paul E. SpectorOnwards and upwards: conducting and publishing high-qualityresearch in I-O psychology 429Mindy K. Shoss, Nathan A. Bowling, and Zhiqing E. Zhou