As a sustainability practitioner, I am glad to facilitate a
discussion today about the value of I-O psychology in embedding sustainability
into organizations, particularly mainstream companies. Based on my six-year practice in
sustainability consulting, and my combined 18 years of experience in management
consulting and communications, I recognize a great need for organizational
development expertise in this arena.
Leadership is the key determinant of whether sustainability becomes
rooted as a core value in any given organization. For sustainability to flourish, it must be
embedded into human resources. Even projects based on good intentions and
credible tools will flounder without engaging influencers and managers at all
levels in the process. The upcoming SIOP
Leading Edge Consortium on
environmental sustainability is a rare opportunity to explore the human element
in all the depth it deserves. As we
exchange ideas for how to use I-O psychology to create a culture of
sustainability, it is helpful to also consider the ways that a burgeoning green
ethos can be acted up and expressed to maximize bottom-line or “triple-bottom
line” benefits.
Join the Virtual Dialogue August
30 with LEC Speaker Anna Clark
The SIOP Electronic Communications Committee will be
hosting a special online guest on the Exchange Thursday, August 30. One of SIOP's 2012 Leading Edge Consortium speakers, Anna
Clark, will be online live from 8 a.m.- 3 p.m. CST to answer questions and respond to comments in response to her blog post regarding environmental sustainability in
the workplace. Anyone interested in the topic of environmental sustainability at
work is invited to read the post, which will be published Thursday morning, and leave comments or questions for Clark.
What makes Apple, one of the market leaders in terms of
innovation today?
In this blog, I examine five guiding principles that seem to
increase our capacity for innovation, as exemplified by innovators such as
Steve Jobs.
I also debate how these principles can be applied as we
conduct research on innovation using I-O Psychology approaches, for developing
theory and practice. I invite you to think through these factors with me and
provide your comments.
I was going to omit the question mark for this post’s title, but I realized that would be too presumptuous. There are lots of advantages to using discussion boards for teaching, but there are disadvantages as well. Because this post ended up being a tad longer than I had expected, I’m going to break it up into three parts. In Part 1, I’ll introduce discussion boards and how to effectively incorporate them into your classes. In Parts 2 and 3, I’ll discuss their advantages and disadvantages, respectively.
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