Professor Kevin R Murphy, Department of Work and Employment Studies, University of Limerick delivered his Inaugural lecture on 30th April 2018.
An Inaugural lecture is an occasion of significance in an academic staff member’s career at UL, providing newly appointed professors with the opportunity to inform colleagues, the campus community and the general public of their work to date, including current research and future plans. In his talk “Why We Study Work”, Professor Murphy described five broad themes that underly research in the Department of Work and Employment Studies argued for the importance of building better, healthier organizations. He outlined many of the challenges inherent in the task and underscored the relationship between this goal and the core missions of the University of Limerick.
Professor Murphy earned his PhD in Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University in 1979, and has served on the faculties of Rice University, New York University, Pennsylvania State University and Colorado State University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Society, and the recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s 2004 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. He is the author of over one hundred and ninety articles and book chapters, and author or editor of eleven books, in areas ranging from psychometrics and statistical analysis to individual differences, performance assessment and honesty in the workplace.
He has served as President of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Editor of Journal of Applied Psychology and of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, and is a member of numerous editorial boards.
Throughout his career, Dr. Murphy has worked to advance both research and the application of that research to solve practical problems in organizations.
For example, he served as both a member and the Chair of the U.S. Department of Defense Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing, and has also served on five U.S. National Academy of Sciences committees, all of which dealt with problems in the workplace.
He has carried out a number of research projects with military and national security organizations, dealing with problems ranging from training to applying research on motivation to problems of nuclear deterrence, and has worked with numerous private and public-sector organizations to build and evaluate their human resource management systems. He is a frequent contributor to RTE Brainstorm, publishing articles on a broad range of topics relevant to understanding behavior in organization.
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