Related Societies
United Kingdom
- British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society
- Founded more than 30 years ago, BELMAS seeks to advance the practice, teaching and study of educational management, administration and leadership in the UK, and to contribute to international developments in these areas. It organises an Annual Conference, normally in late September, and a Research Conference each Summer, in association with SCRELM.
- British Academy of Management
- Membership of BAM is drawn primarily from academics, but is open to all who have a direct interest or involvement in management research and education. The Academy includes several Special Interest Groups (SIGs) focussing on topics such as Knowledge and Learning, Inter-Organisational Relations, and Gender in Management.
- British Psychological Society: Division of Occupational Psychology
- The Division of Occupational Psychology was started in 1971 and is the part of the British Psychological Society which is responsible for the professional activities of occupational psychologists. This website is designed to enable communication between all members and potential members of the Division.
- Association of Business Psychologists
- The Association of Business Psychologists is a community of professionals who are business led, and psychology-focussed, who share a common purpose to bring the best from research and applied psychology to the business world.
Europe
- European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology
- The Academy was established in 1999 as a pan-European representative body for the emerging field of occupational health psychology. Academy activities are structured around the three 'pillars' of research, practice and education, converging biennially at full conferences and between conferences at regional workshops. Members of the Academy are entitled to considerable discounts on attendance at events plus a variety of further benefits.
- European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology
- The European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology is the official journal of EAWOP, which aims to support the development and application of W&O psychology in Europe and to promote co-operation between scientists and professionals working in the field across Europe.
- European Network of Work and Organizational Psychologists
- The motives for the creation of grew out of an acute awareness that the progress of European integration began to pose challenges both for scientific inquiry as well as professional practice which called for renewed efforts in information exchange and concerted European action also by academics in the field of W&O psychology.
United States of America
- The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- NIOSH is the federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness. It is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US Department of Health and Human Services.
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- SIOP is Division 14 of the APA. The Society's mission is to enhance human well-being and performance in organizational and work settings by promoting the science, practice, and teaching of industrial-organizational psychology.
International
- Academy of Management
- The Academy of Management is a leading professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations. Founded in 1936 by two professors, it is the oldest and largest scholarly management association in the world, with members from 92 nations.
- Center for Creative Leadership
- The Center for Creative Leadership is a nonprofit educational institution that serves as an international resource for increasing the leadership capabilities of individuals and organizations from across the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Its mission is to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide, and its role to help individuals and organizations address leadership challenges.
- International Association of Applied Psychology
- The IAAP is the oldest international association of psychologists. Its official languages are English and French. Founded in 1920, it now has more than 2.000 members from more than 94 countries. Division 1 is the Work and Organizational Psychology Division which aims "to establish contact between those who, in different countries, devote themselves to scientific work in the field of organizational psychology, and to advance the study and achievement of means likely to contribute to the scientific and social development in this field."
- International Society for Performance Improvement
- Founded in 1962, ISPI is the leading international association dedicated to improving productivity and performance in the workplace. ISPI represents more than 10,000 international and chapter members throughout the United States, Canada, and 40 other countries.
- International Society for the Study of Work and Organizational Values
- The theme for the next International Society for the Study of Work and Organizational Values conference will be Work Values and Behavior.
- International Union of Psychological Science
- The IUPsyS was founded in 1951 to serve as an umbrella international voice supporting "the development of psychological science, whether biological or social, normal or abnormal, pure or applied." Today it has National Members from close to 70 countries, and works to represent the full breadth of psychology as a profession and as a science.
- Society for Human Resource Management
- The Society for Human Resource Management is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 180,000 individual members, the Society's mission is to serve the needs of HR professionals by providing the most essential and comprehensive resources available.
Ergonomics
- The Ergonomics Society
- An international organisation for professionals using knowledge of human abilities and limitations to design and build for comfort, efficiency, productivity and safety.
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's mission is to promote the discovery and exchange of knowledge concerning the characteristics of human beings that are applicable to the design of systems and devices of all kinds.
- International Ergonomics Association
- The International Ergonomics Association is the federation of ergonomics and human factors societies from around the world. The mission of the IEA is to elaborate and advance ergonomics science and practice, and to improve the quality of life by expanding its scope of application and contribution to society.
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