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The “How” Matters as Much as the “Who”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2017

Ashley J. Hoffman
Ashley J. Hoffman*
Affiliation:
Human Resources Department, National Railroad Passenger Corp.
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Ashley J. Hoffman, National Railroad Passenger Corp. - Human Resources, 60 Massachusetts Ave. NE, 2E-211, Washington, DC 20002–4285. E-mail: [email protected]
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It appears that although Gloss, Carr, Reichman, Abdul-Nasiru, and Oestereich (2017) have considered many of the arenas where industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology intersects with impoverished or atypical populations, an oft-overlooked domain is that of I-O psychologists working in military settings. Arguably the largest humanitarian aid and development organization in the world, national militaries offer a rich opportunity for I-O psychologists to study not only the more “POSH” aspects of work, but also the difficulties surrounding employees who must address impoverished citizens, lack of resources, bureaucracy far removed from the front lines, discrimination, threats to safety, and all kinds of cross-cultural interactions. As such, this humanistic, humanitarian movement could do well from studying the ways military units have successfully and not-so-successfully approached a timely and difficult subject.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 2017 , pp. 396 - 398
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2017 

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