The Building Effective Environments Through Scholarship (BEETS) Lab at UL Lafayette is led by Dr. Christie Charles. The primary mission of the BEETS Lab is to reinvent the world through research by sculpting the workplace through scholarship. The goal of the lab is to provide undergraduate and graduate students with research opportunities to acquire and put into practice scholarly knowledge in the area of industrial/organizational psychology.

Some of the primary interests of the lab are:

• Employee training

• Human factor and ergonomics

• Hiring bias

• Employee recruitment and employee selection

• Employee motivation and job satisfaction

• Organizational communication

• Inclusion and diversity initiatives

• Employment discrimination

• Work-family conflict

Many of the primary interests focus on workplace phenomena, but additional areas of interest are welcomed.