Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is with great pleasure that we announce that the 2011 IOBC Lifetime Achievement Award will be awarded at the First Israel Organizational Behavior Conference to:
Professor Sheldon Zedeck
Dr. Sheldon Zedeck, professor of psychology (emeritus) at the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename> – <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:city>, is uniquely deserving of the first IOBC Lifetime Achievement Award. "Shelly" has brought to the fields of organizational behavior and industrial and organizational psychology a special combination of prowess and innovation in research, research methods, and application. He has made steadfast effort to develop and apply tools to maximize well-being in and of organizations. Shelly has held the top posts in the field. He served as editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology, the field's premier outlet for micro-organizational behavior research. He co-founded and edited Human Performance. He was associate editor of Applied Psychology: An International Review. He served on the editorial board of SIOP's path-blazing Frontiers Series and on the boards of many journals. Recently, APA published the 3-volume Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2010), for which Shelly was Editor-in-Chief. Shelly was president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and was central to the successful effort in moving Division 14 of the American Psychological Association (APA) to an autonomous entity without severing its organizational and disciplinary roots in APA. In recognition of his career-long commitment and dedicated service, Shelly was honored with SIOP's Distinguished Service Award. He has also contributed to a variety of committees and programs for the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename></st1:place> and has served on the executive board of the Society for (Research on) Organizational Behavior (SOB). Over the years, Shelly has partnered with literally dozens of the field's leading scholars and has mentored many students who have emerged as top contributors to the field.
Professor Zedeck has rendered fruitful service to his university, including serving as chair of the psychology department and Vice Provost for Faculty Welfare and Academic Affairs for the campus. Upon his retirement in December 2010, he received the Berkeley Citation in recognition of his research, teaching, and service contributions to the campus. Furthermore, he has spent sabbatical time in several nations in Europe and Asia, including at the <st1:placename w:st="on">Hebrew</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> in <st1:city w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:city> and at the Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Tel</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Aviv</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
Shelly combines research and practice by working in real settings, thus providing a service to the host organizations and contributions to the scientific literature. He has made many important contributions to our knowledge about motivation, consumer decision processes, work and family, workplace health and well-being; research design; test theory; psychological measurement of any kind, including BARS, multitrait-multirater analysis, assessment centers, and rater policy capturing; statistics applied to testing and personnel selection including regression, moderator analysis, performance appraisals, and judgment analysis. Above all, Shelly has been on a lifetime quest to maximize fairness and workplace diversity. Be it in studying behaviorally-anchored rating scales (BARS), rater policy capturing, improved testing standards, or banding, his passion is to assure every individual the opportunity to develop his or her abilities.
Professor Sheldon Zedeck is supremely deserving of this award. It will be granted during a special reception at the IOBC conference in December, 2011 at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tel-Aviv University</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
We invite colleagues and friends to take part in this special event. For more details, visit the conference website at: http://recanati.tau.ac.il/Eng/iobc
Looking forward to seeing you at the conference,
The IOBC Organizing Committee