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I-O Psychology and Environmental Sustainability in Organizations: A Natural Partnership

Stephanie R. Klein and Ann Hergatt Huffman

Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology is extremely well positioned to facilitate environmental sustainability (ES) in organizations. I-O psychology experts (e.g., Muchinsky, 2011) have stressed, and we agree, that the nature of our mission (dealing with issues of critical relevance to business) makes our profession a natural fit to be active players to promote and support ES practices in organizations. We believe that our qualifications were established quite early in I-O psychology’s history, and contend that facilitation of efficiency is one of the fundamental goals of I-O psychology. Maximum output is no ...

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