Julie Olson-Buchanan: Sustainable Development Through the World of Work, Gebunden

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"In 2015, the United Nations established 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to inspire focused efforts to collectively make progress toward major societal challenges. These goals have served as a rallying point to work together toward a common agenda. The UN identifies business partnerships and science as key factors in identifying pathways to accomplish the SDGs. The field of I-O psychology offers tremendous promise for advancing prosocial work but, to date, has been somewhat inaccessible. This edited volume translates the science and practice of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) psychology into actionable steps for impacting sustainable development efforts, using the UN's SDGs as a framework. The volume explicitly targets those who are engaged in prosocial work across the public and private sectors. The volume focuses on four major areas where the science of I-O psychology can be applied for prosocial purposes: (1) Social (including enhancing gender equity, reducing discrimination (age, race / ethnicity, and ableism), and cross-cultural psychology to improve understanding), (2) Health and Well-being, including occupational health / safety, promoting ethicality and reducing corruption, reducing workplace violence, enhancing work-life balance, especially with respect to lower socioeconomic status and women, and using selection to build strong institutions, (3) Economics, including promoting entrepreneurial outcomes, decent work, economic growth, living wages, basic income, and socioeconomic status and economic stress, and (4) Environment, including planetary health, disaster recovery efforts, and corporate social responsibility"--