Title: The Role of Replication Studies in Addressing the Credibility Crisis in Scientific Research
Speaker: Maria Kraimer, University at Buffalo
Host: Jie (Jasmine) Feng, Rutgers University
When: November 20th, 9:00 AM to 10:15 AM China Time (November 19th, 8:00 PM to 9:15 PM EST.)
Language: English
Where: Zoom
Register link: https://www.xcdsystem.com/iacmr/forms/index.cfm?ID=9rRGqsX

I will begin by discussing various issues that have led to a crisis of credibility within the management and psychology disciplines and from the general public questioning the scientific rigor of these disciplines. I will then propose some ways that researchers can address this challenge through increased transparency and rigor, with an emphasis on the role of replication and reproducibility studies. A discussion of the different types of replication and reproducibility studies, along with published exemplar studies, will be provided.

Maria L. Kraimer holds the Donald S. Carmichael Professorship and is the Chair of the Department of Organization and Human Resources at the University at Buffalo, School of Management. She received her PhD in HRM from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include the challenges and consequences of working globally, predictors of career success, and the employee-employer relationship. She has published more than 60 journal articles and book chapters, which collectively have over 25,000 citations in Google Scholar. In 2010, Maria was awarded the Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award for early- to mid-career accomplishments from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. From 2013-2018, she was an elected officer for the HR Division. Maria currently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management. She was past Associate Editor (2010-2013) and the Editor-in-Chief (2017-2019) for Personnel Psychology and is currently Founding Editor for Journal of Management Scientific Reports.