Michael D. Coovert joined the industrial-organizational psychology faculty at the University of South Florida (USF)and founded the Center for Psychology and Technology. His research includes human-systems integration, the impact of technology on individuals and organizations, quantitative methods, and performance measurement. Dr. Coovert has over 100 scientific publications, 175 presentations, and has directed 40 funded projects. He has received the Presidential Excellence Award from USF and also received the university's Jerome Kirvanik Distinguished Teacher Award given once a year to its outstanding teacher. As an aviation enthusiast and pilot, Dr. Coovert can often be found in the sky.

Lori Foster Thompson is a professor of psychology at North Carolina State University, where she leads the IOTech4D lab devoted to research at the intersection of work, psychology, technology, and global development. Her scholarship focuses on how technology and industrial-organizational psychology can together enrich and improve work carried out for, with, and by people in lower-income settings, for the purpose of addressing the most pressing economic, social, and environmental challenges facing our world today. In 2010, she was appointed an EU Erasmus Mundus Scholar in Humanitarian Work Psychology. She has been inducted into North Carolina State University's Academy of Outstanding Teachers and in 2012 was named one of the university's 24 inaugural University Faculty Scholars.

Besides this book, Lori has edited a new book from Routledge (2013) with Julie Olson-Buchanan and Laura Koppes Bryan entitled Using Industrial-Organizational Psychology for the Greater Good.