(Part 2) Best products from r/IOPsychology

See the Lowman text for good coverage of ethical issues in I/O:
http://www.amazon.com/Practice-Psychology-Organizations-Industrial-Organizational/dp/1591473535/

This chapter is good too:
http://psycnet.apa.org/books/13272/008

I highly recommend Andy Field's book Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics. He has a gift for simplifying complex statistical concepts. Additionally, you'll be learning to use SPSS, which is guaranteed to be useful in your graduate studies and career. Alternatively, he offers the same book for other statistical softwares.

Flawless Consulting is pretty well known and respected.

https://www.amazon.com/Communication-Skills-Dummies-Elizabeth-Kuhnke/dp/1118401247

But seriously, you talking about 37-year-old Millenials or 22-year old millennials? Perhaps explaining the problem you are having would be a bit better.

But I know what has always worked for me. Making an effort, trying, and meeting whomever halfway. Outside of that, a simple google search will give you a bunch of hits or miss best practices. From what I saw I would recommend treating them like adults, and keeping it informal when possible, and that "because I said so" gets you about as far as you think it would.

I would recommend Schmitt and Gatewood, Feild, & Barrick. I reviewed Ployhart & Schneider's Staffing Organizations before comps because it's SO easy to get through really quickly. It's probably not a book you should start with because it doesn't go into as much detail as others, but if you have need to circle back around, it's an easy read.

> Any recommendations?

We used this in my undergrad I/O class:

Levy (2009): http://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Organizational-Psychology-Paul-Levy/dp/1429223707

And this in my undergrad organizational behavior class:

Colquitt et al., (2009): http://www.amazon.com/Organizational-Behavior-Essentials-Performance-Commitment/dp/0078112559/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1454017426&sr=1-3&keywords=colquitt+organizational

> Also, would experience in a neuroscience lab doing EEG research bolster my application?

Yes.

> And what types of jobs do you get/places do you work?

Lots of different stuff. For example, I'll be starting a PhD program in the fall, but I'm doing data science stuff now until then and have interned for a NGO, financial firm, and consulting firm in the past. The Levy book has interviews with people about their jobs to give you a better sense of what they do.

Standard 1st year PhD I book: http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Psychology-Human-Resource-Management/dp/0136090958/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368770356&sr=1-1&keywords=cascio+%26+aguinis

O book: http://www.amazon.com/Organizational-Psychology-Scientist-Practitioner-Steve-Jex/dp/0470109769/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368770387&sr=1-1&keywords=jex

The O book is a much easier / more enjoyable read, the I book is much more.... textbooky....

Both should be approachable by someone with a BA

Undergrade level books: http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Applied-Work-Paul-Muchinsky/dp/0578076926/ref=sr_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1368770501&sr=8-2-spell&keywords=Muchensky

Older edition: http://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Applied-Work-Introduction-Organizational/dp/0980147808/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368770501&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=Muchensky

The new edition apparently touches on some of the things that have been effected by the recession. IDK if it is worth the extra $$$ though.

I would get the Jex book 1st, and if you like that check out the Cascio & Aguinis book, or vice versa.

Not finished with it yet, but so far Judea Pearl’s the Book of Why is really good too. His research and philosophy is extremely unique IMO bec
ause he is a computer scientist by training educated in Machine and deep learning, but a lot of his work has focused on understanding causality. The book discusses why causality is so important and the need for us to solve that problem before we can get computers to pass the Turing Test. IMO extremely relevant to I/Os attempting to blend theory with AI.

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Why-Science-Cause-Effect/dp/046509760X

I took a course on leadership theory which was based on the book Leadership: Theory & Practice by Peter G. Northouse. It provides a good, detailed overview of 11 different leadership theories as well as their strengths and weaknesses. Despite the subtitle, it's much more academic than practical, which is seemingly what you want.

I'm a big fan of the historical or diachronic approach to philosophy, so I would recommend a book like A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science for a general introduction.

My two favorite books with direct relevance to psychological methods are Cognitive Science: A Philosophical Introduction and Measuring the Mind: Conceptual Issues in Contemporary Psychometrics.

On my own current reading list are:

• Methodological Thinking in Psychology: 60 Years Gone Astray?
  
  
• Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept
  
  
• Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science
  
  
• Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and
  
  
• Reconstructing Reality: Models, Mathematics, and Simulations

My undergrad text was by Aamodt: http://www.amazon.com/Industrial-Organizational-Psychology-Applied-Approach/dp/1111839972 . It nicely covers the major areas in reasonable detail. I am starting an I/O Masters this year- I'll post again when I know what my texts are.

In Australia you need to have an undergrad Psych background and some command of social research and statistics. No business education is required but work experience is valued.