Green Organizations ─ Driving Change With I-o Psychology

What makes organizations adopt environmentally friendly policies? How can we motivate behavior change to support sustainability goals? How can interventions be designed to encourage permanent change? Editors Huffman (psychology and management, Northern Arizona University) and Klein, a business consultant, gather mainly US contributors in psychology and management to answer these and other questions within the framework of industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology and its potential to promote environmentally sustainable practices in organizations. The book reviews findings, theory, and methods for understanding, measuring, and evaluating environmental sustainability, then applies theories to key problems and issues in individuals and organizations, such as employee recruitment and sustainable supply chains. The book's final section explores the roles of technology and international organizations in sustainability. The book's audience includes researchers, practitioners, and students in I-O psychology, management, sustainable business, corporate social responsibility, and social entrepreneurship. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ann Hergatt Huffman is Associate Professor of Psychology and Management at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Huffman received her Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Texas A&M University in 2004. Prior to Texas A&M University, she worked as a principal investigator with the Walter Reed Army Research Institute-Europe. She was awarded the 2009 Northern Arizona University Most Promising New Scholar Award and was selected as a 2007–2008 Sloan Early Career Work-Family Scholar.

Stephanie R. Klein is the Solution Specialist at SHL in Minneapolis, where she has held a variety of roles including change management, product development, assessment and training program development, and client solutions consulting. Most recently, she led post-merger transformational change within the UK and Ireland sales organization. Her areas of professional expertise include transformational change and the ability to balance client logistics, scientific best practices, and technology capabilities to identify solutions to client business needs. Dr. Klein received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998 and 2006, respectively, following her B.A. in Psychology from Kenyon College.