The Licensure Issue in I-O Psychology: Are We Trying to Police the Police?

摘要

Many industrial and organizational (I-O) and consulting psychologists who engage in practice of their profession, for example as management consultants, compete against consultants with a wide array of backgrounds and disciplinary degrees. Indeed, in consulting work, one of us has competed against practitioners with backgrounds in fields ranging from accounting (CPAs) to sociology, communication, anthropology, business administration, and even those with degrees in divinity.