Rotman Professor Honoured with Lifetime Award from Association for Psychological Science
Toronto, October 13, 2009 –A professor from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto has been honoured with an award for his lifetime contributions to applied psychological research.
Gary Latham, Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effectiveness and Professor of Organizational Behaviour, will receive the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for 2009/2010 from the Association for Psychological Science. It is the highest award conferred by APS, an international organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology. Prof. Latham’s research findings have set the standard for goal setting theory and influenced an entire generation of researchers interested in employee motivation in general, and goal setting theory in particular. His most recent book, Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager: Making the Science of Management Work for You, was published this year.
Prof. Latham is a Fellow of both the American and Canadian Psychological Associations and the International Association of Applied Psychology. In addition to his position at the Rotman School, Prof. Latham holds cross appointments in the University of Toronto’s Centre for Industrial Relations, the Department of Psychology and the Faculty of Nursing. He is one of four people in Canada who is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, and he is the only Canadian who is a member of the prestigious Society of Organizational Behaviour. In November 1996, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1999 he was elected President of the Canadian Psychological Association. He is the only individual to have received both the awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Profession, in 1998, and for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science, in 2002, from the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology, Inc. (SIOP). In 2004, he received the Distinguished Scholar/Practitioner Award from the Academy of Management, and the Heneman Award for Career Achievement in Human Resource Research from the Human Resource Division of the Academy of Management. In 2005, he received the prestigious Michael R. Losey Award for Life-time Contribution to Research on human resources from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). In 2007, he became the first person outside the U.S to be elected President of Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology. In addition, he was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organizational Behaviour Division of the Academy of Management. In 2008, the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management gave him the Thomas A. Mahoney Award for his supervision of doctoral students; and, he was the recipient of the Harry and Miriam Levinson Award for Exceptional Contributions to Consulting Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation.
The Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto is redesigning business education for the 21st century with a curriculum based on Integrative Thinking. Located in the world’s most diverse city, the Rotman School fosters a new way to think that enables the design of creative business solutions. The School is currently raising $200 million to ensure Canada has the world-class business school it deserves. For more information, visit www.rotman.utoronto.ca. Ken McGuffin
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