Humanitarian Work Psychology

by Furnham, Adrian; Carr, Stuart C.; MacLachlan, Malcolm

• ISBN13: 9780230275454
• ISBN10: 0230275451
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Contextualizing Humanitarian work in history, justice, methods and professional ethics, this book articulates process skills for transformational partnerships between diverse organizations, motivating education, organizational learning and selecting the disaster workforce.

Author Biography

Stuart C. Carr is Professor of Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand, and coordinates the Poverty Research Group, an international cross-disciplinary network. He has led multi-country, cross-sector studies of pay disparity in poverty reduction work. His books are among the first to examine poverty reduction from a work psychology perspective. Malcolm MacLachlan is Professor of Psychology and Director of Research in the School of Psychology, and Associate Director of the Centre for Global Health, at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He has published extensively in the areas of disability, global health and humanitarian work psychology. He has worked with a range of United Nations and non-governmental organizations and is currently research advisor to the secretariat of the African Decade for Persons with Disability. Adrian Furnham is Professor of Psychology at University College London, UK. He has held visiting professorships at the University of New South Wales, the University of the West Indies, the University of Hong Kong and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has recently been made Adjunct Professor of Management at the Norwegian School of Management (2009). He has published 70 books, over 1000 papers and is a columnist in the (British) Sunday Times.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors and Interviewees	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xx
Conceptual Foundations
An Introduction to Humanitarian Work Psychology	p. 3
The Evolution of Industrial and Organizational Psychology	p. 34
Justice at Work	p. 52
Facilitating the Process of Globally Distributed Development-Focused Research Teams	p. 80
From Humanitarian to Humanistic Work Psychology: The Morality of Business	p. 103
Applications
The New Diplomacies and Humanitarian Work Psychology	p. 129
Motivating the Teacher Workforce in Uganda	p. 166
Quo Vadis Interviews in Practice û Demand	p. 182
Quo Vadis Interviews in Practice û Supply	p. 201
Personnel Psychology for Disaster Response and Recovery	p. 225
Building Capacity
Women, Work and Poverty: Reflections on Research for Social Change	p. 249
Online Volunteers and SmartAid	p. 266
Building Digital Bridges: The Digital Divide and Humanitarian Work Psychology's Online Networks and Communities	p. 293
The Importance of Trust to the Funding of Humanitarian Work	p. 317
Attributions for and the Perceived Effects of Poverty in East Africa: A Study from Uganda	p. 332
Index	p. 351
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