In sum, to answer the questions inc

In sum, to answer the questions included above, we examined the topical areas investigated by each of the 5,780 articles pub lished in JAP and PPsych from January 1963 to May 2007. This is the most extensive content analysis of the INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL psychology litera ture conducted to date. Our purposes are to (a) provide a description of topical areas that have received the most and least, as well as increased or decreased, attention over the past 45 years; (b) describe these results in light of important human capital trends within each decade; (c) examine lagged relationships between published research and human capital trends; and (d) discuss implications for the field of INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL psychology and propose strategies
for narrowing the academic–practitioner divide, along with changes that can be made by researchers, universities, and profes sional organizations. Our hope is that such changes might improve human welfare in the workplace; inform debates over human capital issues that are critical to employees, their managers, broader stakeholders, and society at large; and lead the field of INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL psychology closer to achieving the lofty goals it has set for itself.