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Conducting Ethical Research With Big and Small Data: Key Questions for Practitioners

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2015

Kathryn Dekas  and
Elizabeth A. McCune
Kathryn Dekas*
Affiliation:
Google, Mountain View, California
Elizabeth A. McCune
Affiliation:
Microsoft, Redmond, Washington
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kathryn Dekas, Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043. E-mail: kdekas@google.com
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The focal article (Guzzo, Fink, King, Tonidandel, & Landis, 2015) sought to “raise awareness and provide direction with regard to issues and complications uniquely associated with the advent of big data,” (p. 492), and we commend their success in offering Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) members a solid foundation and resources on which to draw. Our aim here is to extend their position, particularly to drive the conversation toward concrete recommendations for how industrial and organizational psychologists (I-Os) working in industry can apply the principles set forth in the focal article in our day-to-day work, specifically around the issue of avoiding ethical missteps in this new landscape.

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Information
Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 563 - 567
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2015 

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