Join the SIOPSA Johannesburg Branch for our upcoming
DOUBLE-BILL Event 

Thursday Evening, 27 May 2010

(1) Scope of Practice

and

(2) Ethics and Assessments: Dealing with day-to-day ethical challenges

1)       Scope of Practice  
              Fred Guest – Industrial Psychologist

How do you describe your field of work to non-Industrial Psychologists?

What does an Industrial Psychologist actually do? Can it really be called psychology”?

The Scope of Practice Survey conducted during November 2009 provided some interesting insights to this question – 240 individuals completed the survey; nearly 48% of respondents spend less than 50% of their time doing actual Industrial Psychology work.  Why would respondents describe CPD as one of the most critical factors for success in the profession, yet rate a competency like Learning and Researching as only moderately important for success?  Are we that driven by Board regulation?

To understand these and other areas better, this regional event will be an opportunity to get a copy of the survey report and share your thoughts on the content of the survey.  We want to workshop some of the themes from the survey and, using a focus group format, provide some real life examples of the type of work we do.


2)       Ethics and Assessments: Dealing with day-to-day ethical challenges

              Anne Buckett and Madia Levin – Industrial Psychologists

This workshop aims to explore some of the most common ethical challenges that we face in the assessment arena and looks at ways to address these appropriately.

Every day, as Industrial Psychologists, we are faced with many ethical challenges in the workplace and often the lines client satisfaction, business needs, good practice and ethical conduct become blurred.  By being prepared, Industrial Psychologists can endorse the fact that good ethical practice is good professional practice.

This workshop will incorporate:

• A brief theoretical overview of assessments in South Africa, thereby establishing a solid frame of reference
• An overview of past ethical challenges in assessments versus future ethical challenges
• A brief literature review of the key challenges facing assessment practices.

(Inputs and feedback provided by the delegates will form the basis of a research project focusing on ethics in assessment.)

The Speakers

Fred Guest is a Registered Industrial Psychologist and Head of Professional Services at SHL South Africa.  Fred holds a Masters degree in Industrial Psychology from the Rand Afrikaans University and has been working for SHL for the last twelve years.  Fred’s areas of specialization include the design of competency frameworks for integrated talent management processes and the use of internet-based competency and occupational assessment as part of screening, selection and development interventions.  Fred is also the Past-President of SIOPSA (June 2006 – 2008).

Anne Buckett is a Registered Industrial Psychologist with extensive experience in assessment and development in industry.  She is presently the Managing Consultant of Precision HR with specialist expertise in the areas of HR competency-based assessment and development.  She has worked with several large international consulting firms acquiring in-depth experience in delivering integrated HR solutions to organisations.  She has served as an executive committee member of People Assessment in Industry (PAI) and was Regional Chairperson for the SIOPSA Pretoria Branch. She is also a past Chairperson of the ACSG.

Madia Levin is a registered Industrial Psychologist and lecturer at Unisa.  Her fields of expertise include organisational psychology and development. She has extensive experience in assessment and development and has consulted in various fields such as organisational development and change management, organisational culture, leadership and ethics.  Madia has a PhD in Organisational Behaviour from the University of Pretoria.

Space is limited so please secure your place ASAP!