Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Koppes, Laura L.

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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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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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“…As for the corporate experiments here, these were often short-lived; the exception, rather than the rule. After a few years, Nonlinear Systems reverted to more traditional, hierarchical management structures, amidst economic challenges that resulted in management making mass layoffs (Koppes, 2014). Yet, despite the failures of radical transformation, two approaches developed in the 1960s would be particularly important for the continued uptake of the hierarchy of needs in subsequent decades: the job redesign initiatives at NLS and the management training approaches inspired by the T-group.…”

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Of Maslow, motives, and managers: The hierarchy of needs in American business, 1960–1985

Lussier

2019

J History Behavioral Science

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This paper examines the impact of psychologist Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs in American management. I trace how a roster of management experts translated the hierarchy of needs into management through case studies of job redesign programs at Texas Instruments and marketing firm Young & Rubicam's management training. The hierarchy of needs resonated with management, I argue, because it seemed to offer both a concrete guide for management, with practical implications for designing management training and work structures, alongside a broader social theory that purported to explain changing social values and economic circumstances in America. For the management theorists who invoked the hierarchy of needs, the corporation served as both the prime site for people to fulfill their higher psychological needs and the ideal site to study and cultivate motivation. This article contributes to histories of psychology that show how psychology became a prominent resource in American public life.

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“…E-mail: msaxena1@iit.edu efficiency and the development of paradigms that focused on management of labor and enhancing industrial efficiency (for instance, see Münsterberg, 1913, andTaylor, 1911). Much of this early focus on selection and efficiency was solidified during World War I (Koppes, 2007). In fact, the formalization of the economy (versus informal economic systems) is intricately tied to the development of our field-a link that has not yet been fully explored.…”

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Workers in Poverty: An Insight Into Informal Workers Around the World

Saxena

2017

Ind. Organ. Psychol.

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Gloss, Carr, Reichman, Abdul-Nasiru, and Oestereich (2017) present compelling arguments on a moral/humanistic need for I-O psychologists to consider workers that are living and working in deep poverty. Their case nicely shifts focus to large percentages of global workers who heretofore have only been represented minimally in the scholarly discourse in our field. I would like to accomplish two goals in this commentary. First, I would like to present a brief historical perspective on why industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology's focus has been on POSH workers. Second, I will provide conceptual extensions to Gloss et al.’s (2017) focal article by presenting some insights into the world of informal workers.

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Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Cited by 29 publications

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

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

Of Maslow, motives, and managers: The hierarchy of needs in American business, 1960–1985

Workers in Poverty: An Insight Into Informal Workers Around the World

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