School of Psychology

Industrial and Organizational Psychology Program

Research Team: Culture Research

Introduction

The Culture Research Group includes I/O graduate students and undergraduates who are interested in culture-related research and activities. The CRG provides support for research projects that include cultural questions or issues and conducts research of its own in areas at the intersections of cultural studies and I/O - social psychology.  The CRG actively seeks relationships with similar labs in other countries.

Faculty Advisor: Dr. William Gabrenya

Team Philosophy

The world is not flat: culture matters. Psychology is an incomplete science without considering "culture," regardless of how it is defined across disciplines and metatheoretical orientations. Likewise, I/O psychology must consider culture if it is to be a defensible science and it must respond to the opportunities and challenges of the well-worn "globalization" concept in its applied mission.

Recent Publications

Fehir, S. M., & Steelman, L. A. (2008, April). Repatriate knowledge transfer environment: Scale development and outcome propositions. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York, NY.

Fehir, S. M., Steelman, L. A., & Tavis, A. (2008, April). Repatriates: Effect of organizational communication on adjustment and turnover. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York, NY.

Fehir, S. M., Trame, E., Small, C., & Steelman, L. A. (2008, April). Repatriates: The effects of communication on repatriate organizational adjustment and satisfaction. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New York, NY.

Gabrenya, W. K. Jr., Pathak, J., & Venegas, P. (2008, April). Conditions of work, values and modernity: A longitudinal study. Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, New York, NY. 

Gabrenya, W. K. Jr., van Driel, M., & Fehir, S. (2007, July).  Scrutinizing GLOBE Measurement: Aggregation as ethnography in national culture research.  In R. Littrel (Organizer), Latin America and Leadership Studies: From the General to the Specific.  IV Latin American Regional Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Mexico City, Mexico.

Gabrenya, W. K. Jr., van Driel, M., & Fehir, S. (2007, April). Understanding Project GLOBE: Exploratory Scale Reconstruction at an Individual Level.  Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, New York, NY.