PhD in Applied Organizational Psychology

Faculty

Core Faculty

Rebecca Grossman

Assistant Professor
Program Director of the Industrial Organizational Master's Program
PhD, University of Central Florida, 2014
BA, Florida International University, 2006
Room 114 Hauser Hall
Phone: 516-463-5026
Email

Research Interests:
Teams (team processes and emergent states, team diversity, measurement of team constructs), training (individual and team training, transfer of training, instructional features), and complex settings (multicultural, virtual, and/or distributed teams, extreme and/or high-risk environments, multilevel and multi-team systems)

Teaches:
Teams Seminar (graduate)
Research Methods (graduate and undergraduate)


Kevin Nolan

Associate Professor
PhD, Bowling Green State University, 2012
Room 105-D Hauser Hall
Phone: 516-463-6350
Email | WWW

Research Interest:
Decision-Making: Job Seekers’ Evaluation of Employment Opportunities, and Employers’ Resistance to Standardized Decision-making Practices

Teaches:
Analysis of Variance


Nicholas Salter

Assistant Professor
PhD, Bowling Green State University, 2009
Room 105B Houser Hall
Phone: 516-463-6349
Email | WWW

Research Interests:
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Job experiences (including workplace discrimination but also positive aspects of work life) of minority employees, broadly including race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability, among other groups, as well as the intersections of multiple minority statuses on one’s job.

Teaches:
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace; Measurement of Performance at Work


Comila Shahani-Denning

Professor
PhD, Rice University, 1988
Room 105-C Hauser Hall
Phone: 516-463-6343
Email

Research Interest:
Employee Selection: Selection Interview, Applicant Reactions to the Selection Process, Biases in the Processing of Online Applicant Information, and Attractiveness Biases in Selection
Cross-Cultural Issues: Perception of Selection Procedures and Use of Applicant Information in Selection Decisions

Teaches:
Research Methods, Internship

Affiliated Faculty

Seymour Adler

Adjunct Professor
Senior Vice President, Aon PLC: Aon Consulting
Fellow:
Society of Industrial Organization Psychology (SIOP);
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ph.D., New York University, 1975
(212) 441-2065
Bio

Research Interest:
Personality and Organizational Behavior, Social Influence Processes in Organizations and Selection

Teaches:
Current Literature in Industrial Organizational Psychology


Stephanie Bushey

Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., Hofstra University, 2007
M.S. Hunter College, 2004
229B East Library Wing
(516) 463-6853
Email

Research Interest:
Market Research and Higher Education Research


Bernard Gorman

Adjunct Professor
Distinguished Professor and Faculty Exchange Scholar
Ph.D., CUNY, Graduate Center, and Hofstra University, 1971
M.A., CUNY Queens College, 1967
(516) 463-6029

Teaches:
Multivariate Statistics in Psychological Research II


Garett Howardson

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The George Washington University, 2015

Research Interests:
Training & Development, Quantitative Research Methods


Sayeed Islam

Ph.D., Hofstra University, 2012
MBA/MA., Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2008
631-420-2581
Email

Research Interests:
Customer Service, Self-efficacy, Training and Development, and Proactive Personality


Andrzej Kozikowski

Adjunct Associate Professor
Ph.D., Hofstra University, 2013

Research Interests:
Positive Psychology in the Workplace

Teaches:
Construct Validity


Kevin Masick

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Hofstra University, 2009

Research Interests:
Research Methodology

Teaches:
Research Methods


Daniel Meltzer

Special Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Hofstra University, 2016

Research Interests:
Occupational Health Psychology


Maura Mills

Adjunct Associate Professor
Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2010

Research Interests:
Work-Life/Work-family, Employee Attitudes


Sarah Novak

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2004

Research Interests:
Healthy Habits


Evelyn Rogers

President, E. Rogers Associates, Inc.
Ph.D., Hofstra University, 1982

Research Interests:
Executive Coaching, Executive Assessment, Leadership Development; Career and Succession Planning, Competency Modeling, Performance Management; and Team Development and Effectiveness