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TL;DR: Focus on the Relationships, and Partnerships Will Come

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Kathryn Dekas*
Affiliation:
People Analytics, Google
Jennifer Kurkoski
Affiliation:
People Analytics, Google
Brian Welle
Affiliation:
People Analytics, Google
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Kathryn Dekas, People Analytics, Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043. E-mail: kdekas@google.com

Extract

During our tenure on Google's People Analytics team, we have participated in dozens of research partnerships. Some have been wildly successful, resulting in changes to our own organizational practices or policies as well as academic publications. Other partnerships have been less fruitful, largely because both science and organizations are messy and unpredictable. But no matter the outcome, nearly all of our partnerships have come about in the same way—a way overlooked by the authors in their article (Lapierre et al., 2018).

Type
Commentaries
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2018 

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Footnotes

“TL;DR” is Internet slang for “Too long; didn't read” and is used to indicate when a block of text has been ignored because of its length. At Google, the term is often used at the beginning of a detailed email or document along with one or two sentences that highlight the key message or request. We've been inspired by the spirit of TL;DR in both the content and the form of this response.

References

Kurkoski, J. (2017). Applied R&D in HR: Google's People Innovation Lab. Academic–Practitioner Relationships: Developments, Complexities and Opportunities, 18, 312.Google Scholar
Lapierre, L. M., Matthews, R. A., Eby, L. E., Truxillo, D. M., Johnson, R. E., & Major, D. A. (2018). Recommended practices for academics to initiate and manage research partnerships with organizations. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 11 (4), 543581.Google Scholar