September 2026 IOP Issue Now Available

The latest issue of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (IOP) is now available. Volume 19 Issue 3 September 2026 includes two focal articles, one with 11 commentaries and the other with six.

The first focal, Distinguishing destructive/toxic from incompetent leadership, by David Ducheyne and Filip De Fruyt, argues that it is both timely and critical to make a clearer distinction between destructive/toxic and incompetent leadership to advance research and better mitigate the problems with leadership quality.

This focal is followed by 11 commentaries:

• Beyond incompetence: Why destructive leadership research must make the right distinctions by P. D. Harms, Alaric Bourgoin, Tyler Nicole Abayon Fezzey, and Jane Park
• Destructive leadership versus leader ineffectiveness: Leveraging arguments from prior research to clarify the distinction and construct boundaries by Dina V. Krasikova and James M. LeBreton
• Tomato, tomahto, potato, potahto, toxic or incompetent, it does not matter: We need solutions, not another definition by Sarah Rana, Denise Robb, Robyn L. Brouer, and Julie B. Olson-Buchanan
• A distinction with little difference: Incompetent leadership is destructive by Zofia Ann Walters and Liana Kreamer
• Tracing the shadow: A practitioner’s guide to conceptualizing and identifying toxic leadership by Andrew Loignon, Thomas Fischer, and George C. Banks
• But what is good leadership? A conceptual critique of defining leadership through psychological safety and trust by Carsynn F. Miller
• Beyond the toxic/incompetent divide: The roles of behavioral stability and source in destructive leadership by Emma M. Gerritsen, Ivana Vranjes, and Hans van Dijk
• Dysfunctional leadership as a dynamic and relational process by Rory E. Kuhn and S. Burak Ozkum
• Beyond the “option to leave”: How job insecurity and the normalization of toxic leadership challenge early interventions by Adysen Cohen, Collette Raffenaud, Anna Meerson, and Benjamin Shearman
• Addressing the proliferation of incompetent leaders: The imperative role of improving follower status and stability by Cassandra N. Phetmisy, Diana Warner, and Karen Ahumada Villanueva
• Team recovery in the face of leadership adversity by Cailey J. Schmitt, Karina Soto, Kevin Llanos, and Miranda Copland

Focus 2, Leveraging the science and practice of industrial and organizational psychology for effective circular economy implementation, by Hannes Schilling, Marie Ritter, Clara Kühner, Stephanie Hirschberger, Hannes Zacher, and Simone Kauffeld, aims to outline how expertise from I-O psychology could be used for effective circular economy implementation.

The six commentaries are:

• Can I-O psychology contribute to circular economies without circularizing its own knowledge? by Sophie A. Kay, Matthew A. Cronin, and Oana Branzei
• The circle of science: Applying circular economy principles to I-O psychology research and academia by Micha Hilbert, Franz Wilhelm Mönke, and Lucas Alexander Maunz
• Circular economy implementation in small businesses: Perspectives on the field of entrepreneurship by Chao Miao, Shanshan Qian, Jan Baum, and Bart J. Debicki
• Considering entrepreneurship and bricolage connections with the circular economy by Monica Amadio and Gordon Bruce Schmidt
• Work analysis and competency modeling in effective circular economy implementation by Katherine C. Wheeler and S. Burak Ozkum
• (Re)Making the case for the 4 Rs of talent management in I-O psychology by P.D. Harms and Bradley Brummel

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