Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 26 Issue 6

Organizational psychology and poverty reduction: The multi‐dimensionality of the aid worker experience

Christopher D.B. Burt, Stuart C. Carr

The guest editorial seeks to introduce the papers in this special issue, which focus on the contribution which industrial and organizational psychology can make towards poverty…

A goat for Christmas: exploring third‐party gifts

Simon Kemp, Jessica Richardson, Christopher D.B. Burt

Some charitable organisations market third‐party gifts, in which some good, for example a goat, is given to a developing world beneficiary and at the same time is a present to a…

Improving job fit for mission workers by including expatriate and local job experts in job specification

Jennifer M. Manson, Stuart C. Carr

International development policy proposes that reducing poverty depends on alignment of international aid projects with local priorities, which would imply a role for local as…

Measuring relationships between workers in poverty‐focused organisations

Ishbel McWha, Malcolm MacLachlan

The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a measure of relationships and learning within the aid context.

Stressors and psychological wellbeing in local humanitarian workers in Colombia

Jaime Abad Vergara, Dianne Gardner

This study seeks to examine the relationships of stressors, appraisal and coping with psychological wellbeing in 75 local humanitarian personnel from a local non‐governmental…

Women in self‐organized groups at work: do they promote agency and reduce poverty?

Virginia E. Schein, Anthony J. Marsella, Esther Wiesenfeld, Euclides Sánchez, Mary O'Neill Berry, Walter Reichman

This paper aims to reflect on the work of Virginia E. Schein and her paper “The functions of work‐related group participation for poor women in developing countries: an…