Partnering Against Poverty: Fighting POSH Bias Through Increased Interdisciplinary Research and Practice

Shujaat Ahmed, Ashley J. Hoffman, Morrie Mullins and Laura Sywulak

Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2017, vol. 10, issue 3, 379-384

Abstract: Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology is indeed moving forward in its involvement in humanitarian concerns (Berry et al., 2011), but as Gloss, Carr, Reichman, Abdul-Nasiru, and Oestereich (2017) point out, I-O psychologists tend to focus less on those of low income and the informal economy and more on working professionals in the formal economy (POSH). We propose (a) additional reasons for why the POSH bias may undermine science, (b) more solutions to benefit the impoverished, and (c) a broader conceptualization of humanitarian work psychology (HWP).

Date: 2017
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