Examining the strings of our violins whilst Rome is burning: A rebuttal
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Examining the strings of our violins whilst Rome is burning: A rebuttal | |
| Creator | Veldsman, Theo H. | |
| Description | Problemification: In response to the admirable objective of Efendic and Van Zyl’s (2019) article to offer recommendations to address the crisis of replication in industrial organisational psychology (IOP), I offer the counter-argument that this immediate crisis, although important, is of lesser importance in the greater scheme of the challenges faced by IOP, going into the future. It is merely symptomatic of a deeper and greater illness in IOP.Implications: I contend that the ‘lesser’ crisis of replication pales into insignificance against the backdrop of three accelerating and snowballing, interacting meta-crises within IOP: (1) growing irrelevance (= a burning Rome), (2) an outdated, constraining research paradigm (= an antiquated violin) and (3) ill, even toxic, research community dynamics and functioning (= our stressed-out violinists).Purpose: The aim of my rebuttal is to elucidate the three meta-crises and point out their life-threatening implications for IOP going into the future. Future-fit responses to address these meta-crises are offered.Recommendations: Given these meta-crises, going forward in building the academic reputation of the South African Journal of Industrial Psychology (SAJIP), a number of recommendations are made regarding making SAJIP future-proof (= fit-for-purpose, fire-fighting violins and violinists). | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2019-12-05 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajip.v45i0.1725 | |
| Source | SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 45 (2019); 6 pages 2071-0763 0258-5200 | |
| Language | eng | |
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