This volume is based on the symposium "Psychology and Productivity: Bringing Together Research and Practice" held at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in August 1987. The conference was made possible by the Marie Wilson Howell's bequest to the UALR Psychology Department. The symposium participants (and others invited to contribute to this volume) came from three different perspectives. There were basic researchers with a broad range of theoretical interests, applied researchers with an industrial-organizational orientation, and practitioIlers who apply psychological principles in business settings. The conference was organized into three sessions, each consisting of presentations and discussions from one of the perspectives. This book follows the same format. It was our hope that the symposium would serve as a forum for communication across different areas that can contribute to understanding and improving white collar productivity. We hope that this volume helps to continue, on a broader scale, the communication established at the symposium.

and Overview.- Some Issues in Basic Research.- Software Usabilty and Productivity.- Psycholinguistics at Work in the Information Age.- Aging and Performance: A Mental Workload Analysis.- Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, and Productivity.- Selection, Training, and Performance.- Impact of Selection and Training Research on Productivity, Quality of Work Life, and Profits.- Financial Incentives and Their Varying Effects on Productivity.- Personality, Team Performances, and Organization Context.- The Employee Assistance Program: Raising Productivity by Lifting Constraints.- Stress and Performance in Nursing: Implications for Productivity.- Can We Put Research to Work?.- Task Cycle Theory: A Learning-Based View of Organizational Behavior.- A Systems Analysis of White Collar Training.- Research: What Gets Implemented, and Why.- Contributors.