Topics of Submission

1. Employment relations

• Industrial relations
• Part-time work
• Temporary employment
• Employability
• Union attitudes and participation
• Power and influence
• Globalization
• Flexible work hours
• Shift work
• Psychological contracts

2. Employee stress and burnout

• Work stressors
• Job insecurity
• Burnout and fatigue
• Psychobiological stress reaction
• Recovery and unwinding
• Coping and social support

3. Positive organizational behavior

• Well-being
• Engagement
• Resilience
• Personal growth and happiness
• Organizational Citizenship Behavior
• Organizational commitment and identification
• Work motivation

4. Health and interventions

• Absenteeism and sick-leave
• Stress management
• Workplace health promotion
• Prevention and intervention

5. Work-Family Interface

• Scheduling of work
• Work-family balance
• Work-family conflict
• Family-friendly organizations

6. Personnel selection

• Selection methods
• Validity of tests
• Cultural issues in selection
• Job analysis and competency modeling
• Fairness and Applicant reaction

7. Human resource management

• Reward systems
• Performance appraisal
• Training and development
• Career planning and management
• Occupational choice and careers guidance
• Diversity in the workplace
• Discrimination and Equality in the workplace
• Strategic HR

8. Leadership and management

• Antecedents of constructive/destructive leadership
• Outcomes of constructive/destructive leadership
• Leadership development
• Managing flexibility
• Managing diversity
• Conflict management
• Negotiation skills and processes
• Decision-making
• Leadership and Followership
• E-Leadership and leadership across distance

9. Sustainable environment and organizations

• Climate change
• Environmental preservation and protection
• Sustainable development
• Social Responsibility

10. Performance and productivity

• Performance
• Productivity
• Service quality

11. Etics

• Ethical issues in Organizational Psychology

12. Organizational Change and Development

• Organizational change processes
• Organizational development programs
• Merger and acquisitions
• Downsizing and outplacement
• Outsourcing
• Privatization
• Managing organizational change
• Consulting, coaching and counseling
• Organizational Learning
• Knowledge transfer

13. Labor market issues

• Labor market entry
• Socialization to work
• Ethnicity and the labor market
• Career patterns and mobility
• Turnover
• Unemployment
• Return-to-work
• The aging workforce and retirement

14. Technology, work-design and human-machine-systems

• Managing technical innovation
• Person-technology interface
• Human factors and ergonomics
• Cognitive load
• Work analysis and evaluation
• Work system design
• Environmental stressors at work

15. Occupational and organizational safety

• Human error and accidents
• Leadership and safety
• Risk and safety management
• Safety climate and safety culture
• Reporting systems and event analysis

16.Conflicts in organizations

• Trust
• Organizational justice
• Bullying and harassment
• Violence
• Conflict escalation
• Conflict management

17. Organizational Structure, Culture and Climate

• Organizational structure and design
• Organizational culture
• Multi-cultural organizations
• Organizational climate
• Organizational communication
• Organization theory

18. Teams and workgroups

• Group and team processes
• Inter-group relations at work
• Team building and effectiveness
• Team work, creativity and innovation
• Diversity in work teams
• Cyberspace and virtual teams
• Teamwork in extreme environments

19. Emotions in the workplace

• Emotional labor
• Management of emotions at work
• Emotions and organizational contexts
•  Work attitudes and values

20. Research methodology

• Research design
• Measurement and psychometrics
• Statistics and methodological issues
• Advances in quantitative research methods
• Advances in qualitative research methods
• Field and Experimental Research

21. Entrepreneurship / Self Employment

• Entrepreneurial personality and entrepreneurial      decision making
• Founding Success and Business Success
• Self employment, Entrepreneurship, Family Business

22. Economic psychology, consumer behavior and marketing

• Financial decision making
• Saving, spending, credit use, tax behavior
• Financial crisis
• Consumer behavior
• Marketing