Gary P. Latham is the Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effec- tiveness in the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, a Past President of the Canadian Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the President Elect of...

Gary P. Latham is the Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effec- tiveness in the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, a Past President of the Canadian Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the President Elect of Work and Organizational Psychology, a Division of the International Association of Applied Psychology. In addition to being awarded the status of Fellow in each of those three scholarly societies, he is a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science, the National Academy of Human Resources, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Deputy Dean of Fellows in the Academy of Management (AOM). He is the recipient of the Scholar-Practitioner Award from AOM, and the only person to receive both awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science as well as a Profession from SIOP. His 2009 book, On Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager, copublished by Davies Black and SHRM, received the science to practice award from the AOM.