Frontiers of Occupational Psychology: Substantive and Methodological Issues
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Occupational Safety and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 18011
Special Issue Editors
Interests: program evaluation; methodological quality; Meta-analysis, design, measurement; data analysis
Interests: psychometrics and design; measurement in program evaluation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In a globalized society that is constantly changing, the study of human behavior at the workplace has seen important innovations from a theoretical, methodological, and practical perspective.
Moreover, the pandemic and the new world it is forging have generated a new perspective on what is referred to as “the workplace”, as well as novel variations on organization types and human relationships in the different contexts (social, educational, and/or health environments) where interventions occur. The theoretical framework for improving relevant areas such as worker satisfaction, motivation, attitudes, performance, safety, and overall health and wellbeing is not the only thing that has been transformed. Now the goal of improving the worker experience can be extended to any person interacting with the “organization”: employees, suppliers, and customers but also, for example, family members, as the workplace has, in a great percentage of cases, become the worker’s home. Therefore, the concept of organizational culture—the changes and issues at the individual, group or team levels—has also changed.
On the other hand, changes in classic research design (such as surveys, quasi-experiments, quantitative or qualitative methodologies based on standardized tests, systematic testing and assessment tools, interviews, participant observation, and case studies) are not the only aspect of methodological innovations to consider. It is also important to discuss new advances such as mixed methods research, with different ways to optimally combine qualitative and quantitative approaches. New forms of assessing the metric properties of the instruments are also critical in order to enable the comparison and measurement of subjects from different organizations, environments, cultures, and backgrounds; assure that the instruments are free from bias; and, consequently, conclude that the assessments are objective.
The goal of this Special Issue is to explore recent developments in occupational psychology, with important implications for research and for personal and professional lives both now and in the near future. In this regard, article proposals do not have to be directly related to classic topics in occupational psychology such as job analysis, personnel recruitment and selection, bullying, workplace aggression or violence, motivation, stress, satisfaction, productivity, training, leadership, or individual or group behavior. Instead, the articles must clearly contribute to the general idea of improving the “worker experience” from either a theoretical and methodological perspective, or an applied, empirical point of view.
Prof. Dr. Salvador Chacón-Moscoso
Dr. Francisco Pablo Holgado-Tello
Dr. Susana Sanduvete-Chaves
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- workers’ health
- occupation
- organization
- methodological innovations
- instruments development
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