Industrial/ Organizational Psychology
Faculty/Staff
Dr. Theodore Rosen
Associate Program Director, Department of Psychology
Director, Master in Professional Studies: Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Courses: PSYC 601: Advanced Seminar: Group Decision Making; PSYC 601: Capstone Practicum; PSYC 669: Organizational Behavioral Management; PSYC 670: Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Ted Rosen, Ph.D. serves as the UMBC Psychology Department’s Associate Program Director, and is the Director of the MPS: Industrial/Organizational Psychology program. He joined UMBC-Shady Grove in 2008. Previous experience includes serving on the faculty of the Management Department and as Director of the Program in Organizational Behavior and Development at The George Washington University School of Business. Dr. Rosen instructed graduate level courses in the MBA, Project Management (distance and classroom formats), Management Information Systems, and the Executive Management Information Systems programs.
Dr. Rosen holds a doctorate degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and has over 30 years management consulting, contracting and research experience, including service at US Postal Service Headquarters and the US Office of Personnel Management Headquarters. He completed international executive development assignments in Romania, Egypt and Albania and has presented management workshops for visiting international executives in Washington, DC. Dr. Rosen also presents lectures and shares research at professional conferences, both in the US and abroad.
Ted is a longtime baseball fan and participant. He has been on the field every season since the original Senators played in Griffith Stadium. His field time now is as an umpire in high school, adult, and little leagues. Ted has two daughters out of college and his wife, Linda, is a consultant in mathematics education.
Dr. Diane Alonso
Program Director, Department of Psychology
Courses: PSYC 331: Experimental Psychology: Design and Analysis II
Diane Alonso, P.D. serves as the UMBC Psychology department’s Program Director at the Universities at Shady Grove. She started the undergraduate program at the Center in 2004 and the Graduate I/O Psychology program in 2007. Diane is a lifetime Maryland resident and received her undergraduate degree (B.S.) in Computer Science and her graduate degrees (M.S. and Ph.D.) in Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). With a background in Cognitive Psychology and Human Factors/Usability, Diane has over 10 years experience working in industry both for IBM’s Federal Systems Division and for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)’s Health and Human Services Division. While employed at CSC, Diane performed usability work for clients such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Department of Education, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She also created and led a successful training program for new software implemented for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Systems (MMCS).
In addition to her vocation, Diane’s avocation is musical theater. For over 15 years she performed locally in community and professional theaters in the D.C. and surrounding metro areas. In 1992, during a production of an original version of the “Phantom of the Opera” at Toby’s Dinner Theater in Columbia, Maryland, Diane met her future husband, the very talented composer of the commissioned production, Tom Alonso (http://www.tomalonso.com/). They were married a year later and now have 2 beautiful daughters, Lisa, and Johanna, and a very spoiled bunny, Scallion.
Rana Balci-Sinha, Ph.D.
Courses: PSYC 601: Human Factors
Rana Balci-Sinha started teaching at UMBC at Shady Grove in 2011. She is currently an engineering psychologist for the U.S. Consumer Safety Commission, where she has conducted safety assessments for over 120 products. Previously, she has worked as a human factors engineer for Delphi Corporation. Dr. Balci-Sinha has a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from Louisiana State University, a M.S. in Management from Istanbul University, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Marmara University, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Yildiz Technical University. She was the chair of the Human Factors Committee for the SAE World Congress from 2002-2009. Dr. Balci-Sinha also holds a Six Sigma Green Belt Certification.
Eric Dunleavy, Ph.D.
Courses: PSYC 601: Legal, Ethical and Professional Issues in I/O Psychology
Dr. Dunleavy, an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, has been instructing at UMBC-Shady Grove since 2010. As a Senior Consultant at DCI Consulting Group, he is involved in OFCCP audit and litigation consulting. Eric’s primary areas of expertise are in employee selection, validation research, adverse impact analyses and other quantitative methods. He also serves on staff with the Center for Corporate Equality, which is a national nonprofit employer association based in Washington, DC, whose mission is to promote proactive affirmative action, equal employment regulatory compliance, and other human resource management strategies to create diverse organizations free from workplace bias. Before joining DCI, Dr. Dunleavy was a Senior Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where he provided statistical litigation support on personnel selection cases. He received his doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with a concentration in quantitative data analysis from the University of Houston. Eric Dunleavy is the current Vice President and former legal chair of the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., and is on the editorial board of The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist as coauthor of the “On the Legal Front” column. Dr. Dunleavy has published articles in the International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Journal of Business and Psychology, and Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.
James Griffith, Ph.D.
Courses: PSYC 601: Organizational Surveys; PSYC 671: Introduction to Data Analytical Procedures
James Griffith has been an instructor at UMBC - Shady Grove since 2008. As an applied social/organizational psychologist, Dr. Griffith serves as the program director of postsecondary studies at the National Center for Education Statistics, US Department of Education. He also serves as a uniform research psychologist and research psychology consultant to the Army Surgeon General, Office of Medical Services, and since the US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has been called to military service full-time to assist in studies of posttraumatic stress disorders, suicide, and other risk behaviors of soldiers. Previously, Dr. Griffith has served as senior study director at Westat, Inc. and program evaluation specialist in the Montgomery County Schools. He is author of over 50 peer reviewed articles and book chapters on topics, such as recruitment, retention, cohesion and morale, organizational climate, and stress and coping. His current interests include applying social identity theory to explain stress appraisal and adaptation.
Elliot D. Lasson, Ph.D.
Courses: PSYC 601: Seminar in Social Psychology; PSYC 601: Methods of Assessment
Dr. Lasson has been teaching at UMBC-Shady Grove for three years (at the behest of his mentor Dr. Tom Blass). Dr. Lasson has been working as an HR professional for his entire career, as an Academic, Consultant, Recruiter, HR Manager, and HR Director. His main “day job” is serving as Executive Director of Joblink of Maryland, a nonprofit organization which supports the employment objectives of members of the Baltimore Jewish community. He received his B.A. from UMBC in Psychology with a certificate in Personnel Administration and went on to earn his M.A. and Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from Wayne State University in Michigan. Dr. Lasson’s specialties and interests include talent management, staffing, assessment workforce planning, measurement, training, assessment, coaching, leadership development, performance management, organizational development, employment law, and interviewing.
John Milatzo, Ph.D.
Courses: PSYC 601: Program Evaluation; PSYC 601: Human Performance Technologies
Dr. John Milatzo has been teaching in the I/O Psychology program since 2008. Currently, he is a Human Capital Analyst and Statistician for NASA. Previously, he has worked at Monster Government Solutions, the U.S. Postal Service and the National Security Agency. Dr. Milatzo holds a Ph. D. in Educational research and Evaluation from Virginia Tech, an M.A. in I/O Psychology from GWU, and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has held teaching positions at numerous institutions including American University School of Public Affairs, GWU’s MBA program, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Cryptological School. Dr. Milatzo is a member of several professional associations including APA, SIOP, and the Society for Human Resource Management. His interests include HRD program evaluation, test development and validation and surveying.
Ethan Sanders
Courses: PSYC 601: Strategic Planning
Mr. Ethan S. Sanders, an adjunct professor here at UMBC-Shady Grove since 2011, is a Fellow in ICF’s Human Capital Services group. In this role, he serves as a thought-leader in the practice of Human Performance Improvement. He has provided human performance consulting services to clients in the public, non-profit, military, and private sectors for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining ICF Mr. Sanders was president and CEO of Sundial Learning Systems and Director of Organizational Development for the US Navy’s Human Performance Center. Prior to these positions, Mr. Sanders was manager of instructional design for the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Mr. Sanders teaches several of ASTD’s courses offered through public and corporate seminars. He holds a master’s degree in applied behavior science from Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, he is the co-author of Handbook for Workplace Learning, Models for Learning Technologies, Models for Workplace Learning and Performance, Performance Intervention Maps: 36 Strategies for Solving Your Organization’s Problems, HPI Essential, ASTD Distance Learning Yearbook, and the ASTD course “Human Performance Improvement in the Workplace.”