MURFREESBORO — With
an impressive presentation to human resource executives from Fortune 500
companies, five MTSU graduate students captured the highest national honor
available for majors in their discipline.
Students in the second year of the MTSU Industrial/Organizational
Psychology Program won the Krannert School of Management Human Resources Case
Competition Nov. 3 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
“We are very proud of their hard work and their achievement
in winning this national case competition,” said Rick Moffett, associate
director of MTSU’s Center for Organizational and Human Resource Effectiveness
and professor of psychology.
The competition, which is open to all business-related
master’s programs among United States universities, gave all teams an identical
business case to analyze. Each team had to develop and submit an executive
summary and presentation slides over a one-week period in advance of the
contest.
After the finalists were chosen, each team had 60 minutes to
prepare, 20 minutes to present and 10 minutes to answer questions from a panel
of human resources experts from Amazon, Dell and General Electric.
MTSU’s team defeated finalists from Brigham Young
University, the University of Minnesota, Penn State University, the University
of Pittsburgh and Purdue University. Their prize was a $5,000 check to be split
among the students.
The team members were Kin Chan, Paya Besar Kedah Lunas,
Malaysia; Katelyn Class, Oxford, Ohio; Jacqueline Masso, Peoria, Illinois; Hung
Nguyen, Lawrenceville, Georgia; and Megan Wertheimer, Waterford, Michigan.
“The case competition provided our team not only with an
opportunity to present to HR executives from Fortune 500 companies, but also
provided us with the opportunity to learn from each other and grow in our
expertise while simultaneously building stronger relationships and memories
that are sure to last for years to come,” said Masso.
“We received feedback from one of the judges indicating that
we won because we were able to take a complicated project and clearly
communicate our solution so that it could be easily understood,” said
Wertheimer. “I think that this is a testament to the value of I/O psychology
and what we have to offer.”
Industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology is an area of
scientific study that addresses psychological concepts and principles in the
workplace. It applies evidence-based research in solving organizational issues
of all kinds, as opposed to relying on anecdotes, hearsay and the latest
management trends.
For more information, contact the Center for Organizational and
Human Resource Effectiveness at 615-898-5458, email cohre@mtsu.edu or visit http://mtsu.edu/programs/psychology-ma-io/index.php.
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