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How Journals Can Facilitate the Study of Underlying Situational Characteristics Distinguishing Worker and Professional Samples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2016

Jennifer P. Green  and
Reeshad S. Dalal
Jennifer P. Green*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, George Mason University
Reeshad S. Dalal
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, George Mason University
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jennifer P. Green, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030. E-mail: [email protected]
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Bergman and Jean's (2016) focal article decries the limited research attention of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists on “workers”—that is, employees such as wage earners, frontline workers, and contractors, who do not fill professional, managerial, or executive positions. We agree. In addition to the scientific and moral benefits of studying workers, there is a practical imperative. An academic discipline that comes across as being disinterested in workers may leave itself open to charges of being the “handmaiden” of management (Hulin, 2002, p. 12). Moreover, such an academic discipline may be ill prepared to provide evidence-based contributions to important societal debates on topics such as income inequality and immigration.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 121 - 129
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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