The first Industrial Organizational/Organizational Behavior (IOOB) Graduate Student Conference was held in 1980 by The Ohio State University. Milt Hakel, a faculty member from Ohio State, was the originator of the conference. The Conference was sponsored by both the psychology and business department at Ohio State. This influenced the merging of organizational psychology and organizational business into one conference. From this year on, the IOOB Conference has been passed on to different schools to host this annual conference.

The IOOB Graduate Student conference is a national meeting for graduate students who are enrolled in Industrial Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management programs. The conference primarily consists of student paper presentations and workshops led by keynote speakers who are prominent in the field.

Following is a list of the schools who have previously hosted IOOB conferences:

• 1980 The Ohio State University
• 1981 Michigan State University
• 1982 The University of Maryland
• 1983 Illinois Institute of Technology
• 1984 Old Dominion University
• 1985 The University of Akron
• 1986 The University of Minnesota
• 1987 The University of Tennessee
• 1988 Bowling Green State University
• 1989 Tulane University
• 1990 The Ohio State University
• 1991 University of Missouri - St. Louis
• 1992 Radford Univerity
• 1993 The University of Waterloo & The University of Guelph
• 1994 DePaul University
• 1995 University of Colorado - Denver, University of Colorado at Boulder & Colorado State University
• 1996 Bowling Green State University
• 1997 Radford University
• 1998 California School of Professional Psychology
• 1999 George Mason University
• 2000 University of Tennessee at Knoxville

If you are interested in hosting the 2001 IOOB Graduate Student Conference, please feel free to contact us.