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Call for Proposals: VSI: Intellectual Humility in the workplace - Is it good for employees?

  • 1.  Call for Proposals: VSI: Intellectual Humility in the workplace - Is it good for employees?

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    Acta Psychologica – Industrial & Organizational Psychology section

    Call for Proposals – Special Issue "Intellectual Humility in the Workplace – Is it good for employees?"

    Intellectual humility (IH) is an understudied construct in Industrial & Organizational Psychology research. However, IH has gained significant attention among psychology researchers over the past decade due to rising polarization in social and political issues in the U.S. and around the world. One reason for the increased research interest in IH is the potential benefits from IH in terms of reducing political acrimony (e.g., Bowes et al., 2020); and in reducing stress and anxiety (Duncan et al., 2022; Huynh et al., 2023), which may improve individual well-being (Hill et al., 2021). Given the rising incivility in the workplace as shown in the latest survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), in which 53% of surveyed U.S. workers deemed the society being uncivil, it is important to study the role of IH in predicting workplace outcomes such as improving innovation and performance while sustaining employee wellbeing and reducing incivility at work (Agovino, 2024). We invite researchers to join us in publishing your research examining IH as an antidote to political acrimony and workplace incivility, leveraging the benefits of IH while minimizing its negative outcomes (e.g., McElroy-Heltzel et al., 2023) in the workplace. We welcome studies that are cross-disciplinary or interdisciplinary on improving our knowledge and theories of IH as well as its construct measurement considering recent coming of age adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) models to harness the power of IH in improving the workplace.

    Guest editors:

    Nhung T. Hendy, Towson University, nhendy@towson.edu 

    Ho P. Huynh, Australian National University, ho.huynh@anu.edu.au

    Stacey McElroy-Heltzel, University of Iowa, stacey-mcelroy-heltzel@uiowa.edu

    Interested authors are encouraged to submit a short proposal (no more than 1,000 words) in which a detailed outline of the paper is included. Proposals are due on December 31st, 2024. Interested authors please email your proposals to nhendy@towson.edu. Proposals selected for full manuscript submission will be evaluated through a double-blind peer review process.

    Key deadlines:

    Proposal submission due date: December 31st 2024

    Proposal decision: January 31st, 2025

    Full manuscript submission due date: May 1st 2025

    References

    Agovino, T. (2024). Minding manners: Tackling incivility for a better work experience. HR Quarterly, 69(2), 26-32.

    Bowes, S. M., Blanchard, M. C., Costello, T. H., Abramowitz, A. I., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2020). Intellectual humility and between-party animus: Implications for affective polarization in two community samples. Journal of Research in Personality, 88, 103992. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103992

    Duncan, A. R., Bell, S. B., & Hellman, C. M. (2022). Intersections of perceived stress, burnout, dispositional hope, intellectual humility, locus of control, and lifestyle factors in undergraduate medical education. Current Psychology: A Journal for Diverse Perspectives on Diverse Psychological Issues.

    Hill, P. C., Lewis Hall, M. E., Wang, D., & Decker, L. A. (2021). Theistic intellectual humility and well-being: Does ideological context matter? The Journal of Positive Psychology16(2), 155–167.

    Huynh, H. P., Sramek, K. N., Sifuentes, K. A., Lilley, M. K., & Bautista, E. M. (2023). Keep calm and be humble: Can intellectual humility predict test anxiety? Psychological Reports126(6), 2963–2978.

    McElroy-Heltzel, S. E., Davis, D. E., Hook, J. N., & Battaly, H. D. (2023). Too much of a good thing: Differentiating intellectual humility from servility in higher education. Journal of Moral Education, 52(1), 21–33.



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    Nhung Hendy
    Towson University
    Towson MD
    (410) 704-2900
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