Dr. Michael Aamodt

Meeting of October 20, 2010 - Employer Use of Credit History as a Screening Tool

Michael G. Aamodt (Mike) is a Principal Consultant for DCI Consulting Group where he conducts salary equity analyses, analyzes adverse impact statistics, and helps develop employee selection systems for federal contractors and other organizations. Prior to working for DCI, Mike spent 26 years as a professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Radford University where he coordinated the I/O master's degree program. Mike has published several books in the human resource management area, published over 50 research articles and book chapters, and presented over 100 papers at professional conferences. He received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. He is active in many professional organizations including the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the International Personnel Assessment Council (IPAC), and the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology (SPCP).