The Employee-Organization Relationship (ePub)

Dr. Lois E. Tetrick received her doctorate in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1983. Upon completion of her doctoral studies, she joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at Wayne State University and remained there until 1995 when she moved to the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston. She joined the faculty at George Mason University in 2003 where she is the Director of the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Program.

Professor Tetrick is currently a consulting editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Management and Organization Review: The Journal of the International Association for Chinese Management Research. She is a former editor of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and a former associate editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology. Dr. Tetrick is a co-editor with Jackie Coyle-Shapiro, Lynn Shore, and Susan Taylor of The employment relationship: Examining psychological and contextual perspectives. Recently, she and Jim Quick edited the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Occupational Health Psychology. Dr. Tetrick is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Society, and the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. She has served as President of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and as Chair of the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management.

Dr. Tetrick has two areas of research. One area focuses primarily on the employment exchange relationship including psychological contracts and the employee-organization relationship. The other area is occupational health psychology including such topics as safety, occupational stress, and the work-family interface. A common underlying interest in both of these lines of research is incorporating a global perspective in understanding employees' experiences of the work environment.