June 2026 IOP Issue Now Available

The latest issue of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (IOP) is now available. Volume 19 Issue 2 June 2026 includes two focal articles, one with 10 commentaries and the other with nine.

The first focal, I-O psychology and labor: Making up for benign neglect, antipathy, and missed opportunities, by Joel Lefkowitz, Michael J. Zickar, Wayne F. Cascio, and Thomas Kochan, aims to make the history of organized labor more salient to current members of the profession, help us better understand how and why that schism came about, note the adverse effects on our understanding of organizations and contributing to employee well-being and organizational effectiveness, and highlight associated ethical issues.

This focal is followed by 10 commentaries:

• Neutrality is a choice: How I-O psychology aligns with power by Lora Bishop
• Power, neutrality, and missed evidence: Reconsidering I-O psychology’s relationship with labor by Scott Alan Davies and James T. Austin
• A European perspective on I-O psychology and organized labor by Denise Vesper
• Tales from an attempt to study perceived union support: Challenges and opportunities for the future by J. Luke Wiley and Kristen Jennings Black
• Integrating organized labor into I-O psychology graduate training by Liana Kreamer, George Stock, and Andrew McBride
• Viewing unions through a public health model lens by Tony Ramirez, Alex L. Bush, Keaton Allen Fletcher, and Kendall Stephenson
• Collective action at work: It’s time to count I-O psychology in by Alisha J. Silkey, Griffin Mahon, and Melissa G. Keith
• No more missed opportunities: Benefits and methods of educating the next generation of I-O psychologists to work with labor unions by Ryszard J. Koziel, Peter J. McEachern, and Kayleigh Truman
• Reskilling is not always the answer: Why I-O psychologists must align with labor before leverage vanishes by Ivan Hernandez and Amal Chekili
• Advancing I-O’s engagement with labor through institutionally supported interdisciplinarity by Ahleah F. Miles, Benjamin D. Blachly, Maite Tapia, and Hye Jin Rho

Focal 2, Read my lips: No new constructs! Construct proliferation as a threat to the future of I-O psychology, by Nathan A. Bowling, Valerie I. Sessa, Jonathan A. Shaffer, and George C. Banks, calls for a temporary moratorium on the introduction of new constructs into the field of I-O psychology and offers suggestions for how the field can address construct proliferation.

The nine commentaries are:

• The information needed to refine constructs is already there—we just need to use it by Andrew Samo and Scott Highhouse
• Computational process theorizing for defining, refining, and differentiating constructs by Michael T. Braun, James A. Grand, Steve W. J. Kozlowski, and Goran Kuljanin
• The match-to-sample task: Adapting insights from cognitive psychology to address I-O construct proliferation by Rachel Helisch, Laura Lakusta, and Jennifer Bragger
• The devil is in the details: Methodological nuances and challenges in evaluating construct redundancy by In-Sue Oh and Huy Le
• Too many ways to measure the same thing: Measure proliferation in I-O psychology by Natalie Wilde and David Woehr
• Construct stewardship: Work–family as an illustrative case by Jesse S. Michel
• Rewarding new constructs while hoping for mature ones by Marcus W. Dickson
• Practical barriers to reducing construct proliferation by Francesca A. Catalano and Liana Kreamer
• Scientific journals and the academic publishing industry facilitate construct proliferation in industrial and organizational psychology by Joachim Hüffmeier, Stefan Krumm, and Maie Stein

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