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Research institute gets new director BOWLING GREEN, O. — Dr. Steve M. Jex has been named director of the Institute for Psychological Research and Application at
Bowling Green State University.
The institute, founded in 1989, is a broad-based, interdisciplinary research unit that offers a wide range of professional
services to organizations in both the private and public sectors. Services include assessing job satisfaction, employee attitudes,
turnover and absenteeism as well as customer service and satisfaction. Procter & Gamble, Ford Motor Co., Mid-Am Bank and the
Humane Society of the United States are among the institute’s past clients. In addition to helping clients, the institute
also provides practicum experience for students in BGSU’s nationally ranked program in industrial/organizational psychology.
Jex replaces Dr. Steven G. Rogelberg, who has left the University.
An associate professor of psychology at BGSU since 2002, Jex earned his doctorate in industrial/organization psychology in
1988 at the University of South Florida. He previously taught at Central Michigan University and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
For the past six years, he also has been affiliated with the Walter Reed Army Research Institute as a guest scientist in its
Department of Operational Stress.
Jex’s research focuses primarily on stress in organizational settings. He is particularly interested in the role of individual
differences in experiencing stress. At Walter Reed, he has collaborated on a number of studies investigating the stress process
among soldiers.
The author of two books, “Stress and Job Performance: Theory, Research, and Implications for Managerial Practice” and “Organizational
Psychology: A Scientist-Practitioner Approach,” he also has published some 50 articles and book chapters and given presentations
at more than 65 conferences. He has worked as a consultant in the field of industrial/organizational psychology as well.
(Posted October 01, 2003 )
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