TOPIC:  CONSULTATION: Who Needs Psychological Expertise Around the World and Why?

Assigned Reading/s: CHAPTER 3, pp. 59 - 74 [Shealy, Bullock, & Kapadia (Eds.) (2023)]

Supplementary Materials:

ARTICLE: Introduction to the Special Issue on International Organizational Consulting: Consulting Psychology Goes Global
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/cpb-a0031584.pdf
This Special Issue of the Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research on “International Organizational Consulting: Consulting Psychology Goes Global” provides highlights of experienced practitioner consulting psychologists’ work in a variety of multinational contexts. A brief description of the context for the Special Issue is provided, followed by an outline of the articles the special issue contains. Questions addressed by the articles include the following: how do the assumptions of organizational consulting psychology as taught and practiced in the United States need to be changed when applied to individual, group, and organizational consultation in other countries? Are there issues specific to international organizational consulting psychology different from those addressed by existing cross-cultural psychology findings? How do practicing consulting psychologists learn how to negotiate international consulting projects from start to finish? What kind of overarching templates are useful when entering a new country of international practice?

ARTICLE: Frontier No More: International Consulting Skills as Necessary Minimal Competencies for Consulting Psychologists
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263937931_Frontier_no_more_International_consulting_skills_as_necessary_minimal_competencies_for_consulting_psychologists
This article identifies and comments on several themes that derive from the Special Issue on International Organizational Consulting: Consulting Psychology Goes Global. Six issues are identified that are intended to help integrate the Special Issue articles and to extend the four factors each article addressed: (1) how can we generalize from cases to actionable propositions?; (2) does corporate culture trump national culture?; (3) Is country an individual difference variable?; (4) are there international metacompetencies that consulting psychologists must know?; (5) who or what is the ethical arbiter in international contexts?; and (6) how can international organizational consulting psychology skills become routinized?

WEBSITE: Society of Consulting Psychology (APA Division 13)
https://www.societyofconsultingpsychology.org/

ARTICLE: Global Consulting in a Culturally Diverse World: Ethical and Legal Implications
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0031675
This article presents an overview of the ethical and ethically related legal dilemmas faced by organizational consultants in global environments. It describes the critical factors that make the practice of global consulting complex, ambiguous, and challenging. It offers recommendations as to organizational strategies, guiding principles, and competencies that can help global consultants better navigate the ethical maze their clients face, or that they themselves face as they work with diverse cultures and organizations. We analyze the root cause of failures by global organizational management consultants and consider the difficulty of determining the right approach for all stakeholders within the broader global system.

BOOK CHAPTER: Consulting Psychology in the Business World
https://academic.oup.com/book/1321/chapter-abstract/140303209?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Consulting psychologists working in the private sector of the business world have many roles. This chapter discusses several types of business consulting engagements. The differences between psychotherapy practice and business consulting are explained. Case illustrations are supplied based on the authors’ more than 30 years of experience. Information is given about the type of additional training required to become a consultant. Topics covered are executive coaching, leadership development, family business consulting, executive selection, team building, leadership succession, organizational analysis and design, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic planning.

BOOK: Internationalizing the Curriculum in Organizational Psychology

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296341860_Internationalizing_the_Curriculum_in_Organizational_Psychology
Since the days of silk roads and spice routes, international commerce has been essential to business. Today, from air travel to the Internet, advances in technology have served to make the business world smaller. Yet, despite the real world's march towards globalization, organizational psychology as an academic discipline has yet to incorporate these developments into its degree programs. Internationalizing the Curriculum in Organizational Psychology counters this resistance with a flexible floor plan to bring practical cross-cultural content into education and training. An expert international panel offers guidance on key aspects of curriculum design, including subject matter, learning objectives, competencies, and experiential learning, with here-and-now global insights and business as well as pedagogical savvy. The approach is far from monolithic, as these diverse contributors challenge readers to embrace complexity, surprise, and the inevitable humorous moments that come with cultural exchanges. Among the areas featured: Meaningfully applying cultural knowledge. The dominance of Western perspectives and assumptions. Core competencies for the cross-cultural curriculum. Tools for implementing internationalism in course content. Educational models from abroad. Internationalizing faculty development. For faculty and administrators in industrial/organizational psychology, organizational behavior, work psychology, and applied psychology programs who wish to incorporate an international component to their curriculum or courses, Internationalizing the Curriculum in Organizational Psychology occupies the ground floor of the next major paradigm shift.

DOCUMENT: Guidelines for Education and Training at the Doctoral Level in Consulting Psychology (CP)/Organizational Consulting Psychology (OCP)
https://www.apa.org/about/policy/education-training.pdf

VIDEO: Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Globalization
https://study.com/academy/lesson/video/industrial-organizational-psychology-globalization.html
Globalization is an increasingly important concept to businesses today. In order to compete, a business must consider its world-wide markets and be aware of cultural differences. Inclusiveness in the workplace helps a business reach beyond its borders and become more successful. Businesses with international presences often use virtual teams who may rarely meet in person but work together using modern technology. Industrial/organizational psychologists (I/OPs) are vital players on this global field.