A Person-Centered Work Psychology: Changing Paradigms by Broadening Horizons

摘要

We agree with Weiss and Rupp's (2011) basic description of the paradigm used within much of industrial–organizational (I-O) psychology, namely, that it is characterized by what they call the between-entities assumption and the collective purpose agenda, focused on aligning individual behavior with collective pur-pose. This has been the general paradigm in U.S. I-O psychology. But work psychology, especially outside the United States, has not exclusively focused on furthering organizational needs: It has also concerned itself with the whole person and how work affects the individual worker as a person. Thus, the increased internationalization of our field has begun a healthy attenuation of these paradigmatic differences and resulted in an increased interest in the worker not only in relation to organizations' needs but as an integrated, whole person. Correspondence