Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Joel Lefkowitz
Contact Information:
9 Old School House Ln, East Hampton, NY 11937
Joel Lefkowitz received the Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational (I-O) psychology in 1965 from Case Western Reserve University. From that time until 2009 he taught at the Bernard M. Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he was head of the doctoral program in I-O psychology from its inception in 1982. He is currently Professor Emeritus. Dr. Lefkowitz is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP); the American Psychological Association (APA)—Div. 14 (I-O) and Div. 9 (SPSSI); and the Association for Psychological Science (APS). He was awarded the diplomate in I-O psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He is the author of Values and Ethics of Industrial-Organizational Psychology ( Routledge, 3rd Edition,2023). His research has been within both the “I” and “O” aspects of the field; he was retained as an expert, including testifying in court, in more than 50 employment discrimination cases. In recent years he has written extensively about professional, ethical and values issues in I-O psychology. SIOP Foundation awards include The Joel Lefkowitz Early Career Award for Humanistic Industrial-Organizational Psychology, endowed in part by former Baruch I-O students.
Representative Publications:
Lefkowitz, J. (2023). Values and Ethics of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, 3rd Ed. New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 663 pp.
Watts, L., Lefkowitz, J., Gonzalez, M. & Nandi, S. (2023). How relevant is the APA ethics code to industrial-organizational psychology? Applicability, deficiencies and recommendations. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 16(2), 143-165. First published online May 9, 2023.
Lefkowitz, J. & Watts, L. (2022). Ethical incidents reported by industrial-organizational psychologists: A ten-year follow up. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(10), 1781-1803. Advance online publication http://dx.doi.org/10.10337/apl0000946, Nov. 21, 2021.
Lefkowitz, J. (2021). Forms of ethical dilemmas in industrial-organizational psychology. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice (focal article), 14(3), 297-319.
Lefkowitz, J. (2019). The conundrum of industrial-organizational psychology. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 12(4), 473-478.