Sidney A. Fine Grant for Research on the Analysis of Work

Funder: Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Foundation (SIOP)

The Sidney A. Fine Grant, awarded by the SIOP Foundation, supports research on analytic strategies for job study, enhancing understanding of job content and organizational structures. Proposals must demonstrate scientific rigor, innovation, and feasibility to complete within two years. Eligibility includes SIOP members, and student-led proposals require professional endorsement. Ineligible applicants are those who received a Fine Grant within the past two years. This grant also encourages collaboration with other funding sources for larger projects.

NOTE: This award is not open for the 2026 nomination cycle.
The SIOP Foundation is committed to improving the lives of workers and the functioning of organizations through the science and practice of Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
The Sidney A. Fine grant is for research on analytic strategies to study jobs and is designed to support research that will further the usefulness of analytic strategies to study jobs, especially as to the nature of job content and organizational structures in which work is performed. In this context, research may take many forms including, but not limited to, bibliographic, empirical, methodological, model development, and theoretical investigations.
Criteria
The Fine Grant Subcommittee (appointed by the Awards Committee chair) will evaluate proposals based on the following criteria:
Have a sound technical or scientific base.Demonstrate innovation and excellence.Have the potential for advancing our understanding of jobs and/or methods of analyzing jobs.Be feasible and possible to complete within 2 years of the award date.Have a clearly defined project plan, defined deliverables, and budget.

Eligibility

Proposals must be submitted by a member of SIOP (which includes Students).Proposals submitted with a Student as the principal investigator must include a letter of endorsement from a SIOP professional member.In order to encourage wide participation and a large variety of individuals and institutions involved in the program, an individual can only be involved in one proposal per review cycle per grant.The grant can be used in conjunction with other funding for a larger scale project. In this case, the proposal should describe the scope of the entire project, the entire budget, and the portion of the budget for which SIOP award money will be spent.

Ineligibility

Individuals who received a Fine Grant within the last two years are ineligible.Grant funds may not be used for overhead or indirect costs.Grant funds should not be used to pay for ancillary costs related to the project (publication or presentations at conferences, such as open access and registration/ travel costs).