Decolonizing intervention assessment: Qualitative and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding “side effects”

• Published in: Industrial and organizational psychology 2022-03, Vol.15 (1), p.113-116
• Main Authors: Beckel, Julia L. O., Gardner, Danielle M., Prasad, Joshua J.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Commentaries; Decolonization; Interdisciplinary aspects; Intervention; Knowledge; Positivism; Qualitative research; Research methodology
• ISSN: 1754-9426; 1754-9434
• DOI: 10.1017/iop.2021.132

[...]in outlining seven “social forces that are to blame for this stagnation of knowledge” (p. XX), the focal authors insinuate that if only these social forces could be ameliorated, individual researchers could more readily address the stagnation of knowledge related to side-effects; we challenge that notion and further oppose the characterization of I-O psychologists as infallible victims of circumstance. (2021), the authors explain adverse side effects in which leaders who use a protected leave of absence are affronted with career immobility. Alternatively, we challenge here the lens through which we reach the explication of criticizing accommodations meant to support worker well-being and qualifying adverse outcomes that should be bound to performance as side effects and instead begin to acknowledge the cultural norms that might equate recovery experiences to dwindling job involvement. [...]phenomenological approaches are useful for understanding how participants apply meaning to experience through conversation or text.