Abstract
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accelerating and snowballing, interacting meta-crises within IOP: (1) growing irrelevance (= a burning Rome), (2) an outdated, constraining research paradigm (= an antiquated violin) and (3) ill, even toxic, research community dynamics and functioning (= our stressed-out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).
Highlights
The admirable objective of Efendic and Van Zyl’s (2019) article is to stimulate an open dialogue amongst the stakeholders of the South African Journal of Industrial Psychology (SAJIP) regarding the replication crisis in psychology in general – and industrial organisational psychology (IOP) – in order to take the journal to the level of academic excellence
My vantage point and the accelerating and snowballing, interacting meta-crises within industrial organisational psychology going into the future
The vantage point of my rebuttal is that science is a social enterprise, practised (= playing the violin) by researchers (= the violinists) as knowledge workers – mostly academics at universities – aimed at making a relevant, lasting, worthy difference (= the music) in a context (= Rome)
Summary
The admirable objective of Efendic and Van Zyl’s (2019) article is to stimulate an open dialogue amongst the stakeholders of the South African Journal of Industrial Psychology (SAJIP) regarding the replication crisis in psychology in general – and industrial organisational psychology (IOP) – in order to take the journal to the level of academic excellence. The vantage point of my rebuttal is that science is a social enterprise, practised (= playing the violin) by researchers (= the violinists) as knowledge workers – mostly academics at universities – aimed at making a relevant, lasting, worthy difference (= the music) in a context (= Rome).
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