Organizational Psychology

We present our journal’s new edition. The journal continues to get familiar its readers with thelat-est events in organizational psychology. In this edition, we congratulate German Nikiforov, Head ofthe Department of Psychological Support for Professional Activities of St. Petersburg State Universityon his anniversary.

Two articles present section «Research in organizational psychology». In article «Methodology of organizational social capital research: paradigm and underpinning the concept» by L. G. Pochebut, V. A. Chiker and A. B. Volkova, the authors methodologically substantiate the concept of «organization’s social capital». Article «Activity–related experiences and their dependence on the type of activity» by O. V. Mitina, I. L. Mozharovsky, M. M. Mirasaidov, and A. S. Bondarenko establishes that the differences of experiences are mostly related to professional activity.

In section «Organizational psychology in practice» you will learn about the possibilities of the Emotional Intelligence Test to diagnose the emotional intelligence level among employees of Russian organizations from article «Development of an objective methodology for measurement of emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence and socio-demographics of employees in Russian organizations» (in English) by E. S. Sergienko and E. A. Khlevnaya. You will also learn how to keep talents in the organization from article «External and internal conditions for the implementation of talent retention practices in organizations: a comparative analysis» by O. V. Mondrus. The results of research on organizational culture and labor motivation in specific Russian organizations are outlined in articles «Representations of the organizational culture of employees of trade enterprise: integration, differentiation or fragmentation of representations» by Yu. I. Melnik and «The factors of labour motivation of a modern employee» by T. Yu. Bazarov, A. B. Karpov. The question of why the position of aviation psychologist is needed is answered by authors in article «Organizational and psychological aviation events in Russian commercial aviation investigation effectiveness analysis» by N. N. Guziy, Yu. A. Mayorova, A. V. Mishin, D. A. Shiryaev.

Section «First Steps» presents two articles by our young colleagues. You will learn how job satisfaction, organizational commitment and autonomy in the workplace with transformational leadership are related from article «The link between transformational leadership and positive work attitudes among employees in Russian IT-companies: the mediator role of job autonomy» by Veronika Deminskaya. Article«Adaptation of the Reysen’s Likeability Scale for Russian sample» by Lucia Bombieri is devoted to the ex-pansion of organizational psychologist’s methodological tools.

The history of ergonomic concept formation in Russia, embodied in the personal memories of one of its brightest representatives can be found in section «Organizational psychology in dialogues and discussions» in article «Ergonomics is my life» by Anatoly Frumkin.

In section «Conferences» you will find detailed stories about the international scientific-practical conferences held at the end of 2019 with organizational and psychological topics: «Work Psychology forIndustry 4.0» (T. N. Lobanova, L. N. Zakharova) and «Development and prospects of business psychology» (N. L. Ivanova).