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Humanitarianism and the UN sustainable developmental goals are insufficient: The case for a humanistic industrial-organizational psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2023

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Joel Lefkowitz*
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Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, USA
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Email: Joel.Lefkowitz@Baruch.cuny.edu
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 2023 , pp. 514 - 519
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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