Awards

Career-Related Awards

• Ranked among the top 1% of scientists in the world in the field of Business & Management.

• First European winner of the Distinguished Early Career Award of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2006). This award is given to an individual who has made distinguished contributions to the science and/or practice of I-O psychology within 7 years of receiving the PhD (see picture in the middle with SIOP president).

• First industrial and organizational psychologist to be Laureate of the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts (2008). This bi-annual award is given to a professor who has made substantial contributions to any discipline in human and behavioral sciences in Flanders.
  

• First industrial and organizational psychologist to receive the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2013).

• Winner of the Hogrefe EAPA Award for Distinguished Scientific or Professional Contributions to Psychological Assessment of the European Association of Psychological Assessment (EAPA, 2017).

  
  

• Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP, 2013).
  

• Fellow of the American Psychological Society (APS, 2017).
  

• Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP, 2018).
  

• Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2018).

Article-Related Awards

• Recipient of the William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology (2024). This award recognizes the best publication appearing in a refereed journal in the field of I-O psychology during the previous year. The paper recognised was: Sackett, P. R., Zhang, C., Berry, C. M., & Lievens, F. (2022).  Revisiting meta-analytic estimates of validity in personnel selection: Addressing systematic overcorrection for restriction of range. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107, 2040-2068.

• Recipient of the Scholarly Achievement Award of HR Division of Academy of Management (2023). This award is given each year to recognize the author(s) of a paper identified as the most significant published article during the previous year in HR management. The paper recognized was: Sackett, P. R., Zhang, C., Berry, C. M., & Lievens, F. (2022).  Revisiting meta-analytic estimates of validity in personnel selection: Addressing systematic overcorrection for restriction of range. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107, 2040-2068.

• Recipient of the Jeanneret Award for excellence in the study of individual or group assessment of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2021). This award is given to a paper that was judged to have the highest potential to further the understanding of individual or group assessment. The paper recognized was: Lievens, F., Sackett, P. R., Dahlke, J., Oostrom, J. K., & De Soete, B. (2019). Constructed response formats and their effects on minority-majority differences and validity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104, 715–726.

• Recipient of the Joyce and Robert Hogan Award for Personality and Work Performance (2020) of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. This award is given to a paper that was judged to to have the highest potential to further the understanding of personality as it relates to work performance, is the most prestigious honor in the field. The paper recognized was: Lievens, F., Lang J., De Fruyt, F., Corstjens, J., Van de Vijver, M., & Bledow. R. (2018). The predictive power of people's intraindividual variability across situations: Implementing Whole Trait Theory in assessment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103, 753-771.

• Recipient of the Dorothy Harlow Best Paper Award of Academy of Management (2016, Gender & Diversity in Organizations Division) for the article: Windscheid, L., Bowes-Sperry, L., Kidder, D., Cheung, H.K., Morner, M., & Lievens, F. (2016). Actions speak louder than words: Perceptions of diversity mixed messages. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101, 1329-1241.

• Recipient of the Adverse Impact Reduction Research Award of Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology.

• Recipient of the Jeanneret Award for excellence in the study of individual or group assessment of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2013). This award is given to a paper that was judged to have the highest potential to further the understanding of individual or group assessment. The paper recognized was: Lievens, F., & Sackett, P. (2012). The validity of interpersonal skills assessment via situational judgment tests for predicting academic success and job performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 97, 460-468.

• Recipient of the IPAC Innovations in Assessment Award (2013) for the project: “A Building Block Approach to Personnel Selection: Implementation and Evidence in a Police Officer Selection Context.” This award recognizes a person or work group for the development and application of an innovative personnel assessment tool or procedure which has resulted in improved effectiveness, efficiencies or cost savings. This project was published in: Lievens, F., De Corte, W., & Westerveld, L. (2015). Understanding the building blocks of selection procedures: Effects of response fidelity on performance and validity. Journal of Management, 41, 1604-1627.

• Recipient of the Best Paper Award of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2009; MED Division) for the article: Anseel, F., & Lievens, F., & Schollaert, E. (2009). Reflection as a strategy to enhance task performance after feedback. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 110, 23-35.

• Three-time recipient of the Douglas W. Bray - Ann Howard Award of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2007, 2016, 2022). The grant is designed to support research on assessment center methods as well as research into the development of managers and leaders.

• Recipient of the Best Student Paper Award of the International Personnel Management Association - Assessment Council (2000) for the article: Assessor training strategies and their effects on accuracy, inter-rater reliability, and discriminant validity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 255-264.

• ANBAR Citation of Excellence, Highest Quality Rating for the article: Lievens, F. (1998). Factors which improve the construct validity of assessment centers: A review. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 6, 141-152.

Teaching-Related Awards

• Dean’s Teaching Honour List in AY 2023-2024 at Singapore Management University.

• Dean’s Teaching Honour List in AY 2022-2023 at Singapore Management University.

• Best Instructor Award (Master of Human Capital Leadership) in AY 2022-2023 at Singapore Management University.

• Dean’s Teaching Honour List in AY 2021-2022 at Singapore Management University.

• Dean’s Teaching Honour List in AY 2020-2021 at Singapore Management University.

• Dean’s Teaching Honour List in AY 2019-2020 at Singapore Management University.

• Dean’s Teaching Honour List in AY 2018-2019 at Singapore Management University.

• Excellent Teacher Distinction in AY 2015-2016 at Ghent University.

• Excellent Teacher Distinction in AY 2014-2015 at Ghent University.

• Excellent Teacher Distinction in AY 2012-2013 at Ghent University.