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The research in the psychology of work and organization has placed as the center of its interests at the beginning the individual needs and, subsequently, organizational needs. A strong element of discontinuity would be to change the focus, concentrating on the demands of civil society. These are the main requirements that emerge from a certain political, economic, and cultural demand; instances that influence the life, development, and decline of organizations. A precise connection between an organization’s political choices, economic strategies, and organizational practices exists. This connection is mostly manifested along four themes: environment, health, knowledge, and equity, which can be innovatively investigated by inverting the priority given to levels of analysis; not individual, group, organization, and society but rather, society, organization, group, and individual.
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Avallone, F. (2014). A Global Context: Future Goals of Work and Organizational Psychology and Demands of Civil Society. In: Griffith, R., Thompson, L., Armon, B. (eds) Internationalizing the Curriculum in Organizational Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9402-7_15
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