St. Cloud State University

Dr. Jody Illies
Coordinator of Industrial-Organizational Graduate Program
Associate Professor of Psychology

Office: 205 Whitney House
Telephone: 320-308-5772
Email: jjillies@stcloudstate.edu
Web: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/jjillies/

Jody Illies received his master's and doctoral degrees in industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology from the University of Nebraska. He completed his undergraduate degree at St. John's University (MN). Dr. Illies’ research interests include organizational problem solving and decision making, creativity and innovation, leadership, and the use of biographical data as an assessment tool. In his most recent studies, he has been exploring the influence of personal values on emergent and unethical leader behavior and the influence of individual differences and situational variables on risk-seeking behavior in business settings. If you find any of his research areas intriguing, or just want to talk about I-O or research in general, please contact Dr. Illies.

Dr. John Kulas
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Office: 303 Whitney House
Telephone: 320-308-3234
Email: jtkulas@stcloudstate.edu
Web: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/jtkulas

Dr. Kulas received his M.A. and Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from Northern Illinois University. He received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota. At the time of his appointment, Dr. Kulas had acquired 3 years of formal applied I/O experience primarily working as a test publisher (NCS/London House), an internal I/O consultant (SBC Communications), and as an I/O team leader for a small management consulting firm (Corporate Psychology Resources). Dr. Kulas is interested in any practical research applied to issues of human resource management, but specific areas of interest include: criterion-space development/ expansion, modern psychometric techniques and theory, affirmative action, and newcomer socialization. Students interested in any of these areas of research, or with a desire to pursue their own research questions related to workers and/or organizations, are encouraged to contact Dr. Kulas (he is a self-admitted sucker for new research projects).

Dr. Daren Protolipac
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Office: 1B Whitney House
Telephone: 320-308-5750
Email: dsprotolipac@stcloudstate.edu

Dr. Protolipac received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology from Northern Illinois University. He is originally from Chicago, Illinois, and received his B.S. in Psychology from Northern Illinois University. His research areas include content- and criterion-related selection measure development and evaluation; personality influences on organizational, team, and individual outcomes; cross-level off-the-job interactions; team selection methods on work-team outcomes; psychometric techniques and theory; and training and organizational development. His most recent project explored the impact of current mood states on the accuracy and generalizability of Angoff cutoff score judgments using a generalizability framework. His teaching interests lie in the area of training and organizational development, psychometrics, organizational behavior, and personnel selection. Students interested in any of these avenues of research, or with personal interests in research related to any aspect of organizational functioning and/or members of organizations are encouraged to contact Dr. Protolipac. He is always looking to create new research teams and projects.