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Smeal Professor's Research Wins Best Paper in I-O Psychology Field

A paper coauthored by Glen Kreiner, associate professor of management at the Penn State Smeal College of Business, has won the 2011 Owens Scholarly Achievement Award, recognizing it as the best publication in the field of industrial and organizational psychology in 2009.

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (December 22, 2010) – A paper coauthored by Glen Kreiner, associate professor of management at the Penn State Smeal College of Business, has won the 2011 Owens Scholarly Achievement Award, recognizing it as the best publication in the field of industrial and organizational psychology in 2009.

"Balancing Borders and Bridges: Negotiating the Work-Home Interface via Boundary Work Tactics," coauthored by Kreiner along with Elaine Hollensbe of the University of Cincinnati and Mathew Sheep of Illinois State University, appeared in the Academy of Management Journal.

Through interviews with individuals who face particularly extreme challenges in balancing work and home demands—Episcopal priests—the researchers identify 11 tactics to help employees achieve work-life balance by negotiating the boundaries between their office life and their home life. (More information about the tactics and their research is available online here.)

The Owens Award is presented annually by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Inc. The award, honoring William A. Owens, is given to the author(s) of the publication in a refereed journal judged to have the highest potential to significantly impact the field of industrial and organizational psychology.

For more on the award, visit www.siop.org/siopawards/owens.aspx.

REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.

Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, management and organization, marketing, risk management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.

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