News Flash! Work Psychology Discovers Workers!

Lefkowitz, Joel

doi:10.1017/iop.2015.126

Cited by 13 publications

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“…The intent of HWP is to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and to bring the expertise of I-O psychology into areas such as information gathering, partnership building, conflict resolution, communications, staff selection, training, and evaluation, which can significantly inform poverty reduction solutions. The HWP perspective has informed thoughtful critiques of mainstream theories and research within I-O psychology and related fields with promising results in practice, research, and public policy (e.g., Berry, McWha-Hermann, & Maynard, 2016;Carr, 2013;Lefkowitz, 2016). HWP scholars argue further that the long and rich history of research and practice in I-O psychology, including such areas as job design, personnel recruitment and selection, reward and recognition systems, and the promotion of inclusion and prohibition of discrimination, can be applied to benefit all workers.…”

Section: Related Social Justice Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding the Impact of the Psychology of Working: Engaging Psychology in the Struggle for Decent Work and Human Rights

Blustein

Kenny

Fabio

et al. 2018

Journal of Career Assessment

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Building on new developments in the psychology of working framework (PWF) and psychology of working theory (PWT), this article proposes a rationale and research agenda for applied psychologists and career development professionals to contribute to the many challenges related to human rights and decent work. Recent and ongoing changes in the world are contributing to a significant loss of decent work, including a rise of unemployment, underemployment, and precarious work across the globe. By failing to satisfy human needs for economic survival, social connection, and self-determination, the loss of decent work undermines individual and societal well-being, particularly for marginalized groups and those without highly marketable skills. Informed by innovations in the PWF/PWT, we offer exemplary research agendas that focus on examining the psychological meaning and impact of economic and social protections, balancing caregiving work and market work, making work more just, and enhancing individual capacities for coping and adapting to changes in the world of work. These examples are intended to stimulate new ideas and initiatives for psychological research that will inform and enhance efforts pertaining to work as a human right.

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Section: Related Social Justice Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding the Impact of the Psychology of Working: Engaging Psychology in the Struggle for Decent Work and Human Rights

Blustein

Kenny

Fabio

et al. 2018

Journal of Career Assessment

218

237

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“…Finally, this article is limited in its scope because it has excluded robust discussions of why I-O psychology holds such a POSH perspective and what I-O psychologists can practically do to correct it. We avoided focusing on these topics because they have been handled well elsewhere (e.g., Bergman & Jean, 2016; Koppes, 2007; Lefkowitz, 2016; McWha, Mji, MacLachlan, & Carr, 2014).…”

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From Handmaidens to POSH Humanitarians: The Case for Making Human Capabilities the Business of I-O Psychology

Gloss

Carr

Reichman³

et al. 2017

Ind. Organ. Psychol.

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Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology has begun to shed its reputation as a handmaiden to corporate and managerial interests, in part, through its engagement with humanitarian concerns. However, as highlighted by recent commentary, I-O psychology still has a decidedly POSH perspective on the world; that is, it has focused on Professionals who hold Official jobs in a formal economy and who enjoy relative Safety from discrimination while also living in High-income countries. This POSH perspective reflects an underlying bias away from people living in multidimensional poverty. We empirically illustrate some of the connections between a POSH perspective and poverty by reviewing 100 years of research in I-O psychology, and then we make a case for why a neglect of people living in poverty undermines the discipline's science, its practice, and its humanist charge. As moral justification for greater engagement with humanitarian concerns and as a guide to navigate the difficult ethical quandaries involved in doing so, we suggest that I-O psychologists should consider the capability approach. We discuss the concept of human capabilities, relate it to I-O psychology, and demonstrate its utility in the form of three hypothetical scenarios. Perhaps our most controversial claim is that there is a moral imperative for I-O psychology to overrepresent people living in the deepest forms of poverty in both its science and practice.

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“…A driving force behind organizational behavior (OB) research and practice has historically been its benefit for for‐profit organizations. The overarching question has been how to strengthen individual‐ and through this, organizational productivity (e.g., Lefkowitz, , ). This is understandable given that it is often organizations themselves that finance OB work, e.g., in research and consultancy.…”

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