Citation

Guzzo RA, Fink AA, King E, Tonidandel S, Landis RS. Ind. Organ. Psychol. 2015; 8(4): 491-508.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Publisher Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/iop.2015.40

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The world is awash in data. Data is being created and stored at ever-increasing rates through a variety of new methods and technologies. Data is accumulating in all sorts of accessible places. Much of that data is of great interest to industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologists, often in ways never anticipated by those who develop technologies and processes that generate and store that data. I-O psychologists also generate data in the course of research and practice in ways that, especially if joined with data originating from other sources, create giant datasets. This abundance of data--variables, measurements, observations, facts--can be used to inform a vast number of issues in research and practice. This is the new "big data" world, and beyond opportunities, this new world also presents challenges and potential hazards.

Language: en