Gerard P. Hodgkinson is Professor of Organizational
Behaviour and Strategic Management at the University of Leeds UK.
He earned his BA, MSc, and PhD degrees at Wolverhampton Polytechnic
and the Universities of Hull and Sheffield, respectively. He has
published over 40 articles and chapters and two books on topics of
relevance to the field of industrial and organizational psychology
and in 2001 he was elected a Fellow of both the British
Psychological Society and the British Academy of Management, in
recognition of his pioneering contribution to the psychology of
strategic management as an emergent field of study. This and
related work on managerial and organizational cognition is
currently being taken forward (2004–2006) through the award
of a Fellowship of Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM),
the UK’s research initiative on management, funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Engineering and
Physical Research Council (EPSRC). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the
British Journal of Management and an Editorial Board Member of the
Academy of Management Review, Journal of Occupational and
Organizational Psychology and Organization Science. A practising
chartered occupational psychologist, he has conducted numerous
consultancy assignments for leading private and public sector
organizations. Further information about Gerard and his work can be
found at the following addresses: (1) http://www.leeds.ac.uk/lubs/;
(2) http://www.aimresearch.org
J. Kevin Ford is a Professor of Psychology at Michigan
State University. His major research interests involve improving
training effectiveness through efforts to advance our understanding
of training needs assessment, design, evaluation, and transfer. Dr
Ford also concentrates on understanding change dynamics in
organizational development efforts and building continuous learning
and improvement orientations within organizations. He has published
over 50 articles and chapters and four books relevant to Industrial
and Organizational Psychology. Currently, he serves on the
editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology and Human
Performance. He is an active consultant with private industry and
the public sector on training, leadership, and organizational
change issues. Kevin is a Fellow of the American Psychological
Association and the Society of Industrial and Organizational
Psychology. He received his BS in psychology from the University of
Maryland and his MA and PhD in Psychology from the Ohio State
University. Further information about Kevin and his research and
consulting activities can be found at
http://www.io.psy.msu.edu/jkf