Advancing Organizational Psychology Through Non-WEIRD Perspectives on Leadership, Measurement, and Workplace Behaviour

Leadership, organizational behaviour and attitudes, employee well-being, workplace ethics, and the valid, contextual assessment of related constructs remain central concerns in organizational psychology and management research. However, much of the existing knowledge base is shaped by theories and models developed in Western cultural contexts. As organizations become increasingly diverse through for instance globalisation, questions have emerged regarding the applicability of these frameworks across different cultural, social, and institutional settings. There is growing recognition that leadership practices, workplace relationships, ethical decision-making, and employee experiences are influenced by local values and traditions.As one example from a non-WEIRD context, indigenous African philosophies such as Ubuntu emphasize relational leadership, communal responsibility, mutual care, and collective flourishing. These perspectives offer valuable insights for scholarship and practice, creating opportunities to broaden organizational psychology's intellectual foundations and generate knowledge that better reflects the diversity of workplaces worldwide.The primary goal of this Research Topic is to advance a more culturally inclusive and globally relevant organizational psychology by encouraging research grounded in diverse, non-WEIRD cultural contexts. While leadership, organizational behaviour, employee well-being, workplace ethics, and related organizational processes have been extensively studied, much of the existing knowledge base continues to reflect assumptions derived from Western settings. As organizations become increasingly interconnected and culturally diverse, there is a growing need to examine how local values, traditions, and knowledge systems shape workplace experiences and outcomes.This Research Topic seeks to address this challenge by promoting research that develops, tests, and applies contextually grounded theories, models, and practices. Contributions may draw on indigenous perspectives, such as Ubuntu and other Afro-communitarian philosophies, as well as insights from other non-WEIRD contexts around the world. We welcome qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, and interdisciplinary approaches that for instance explore leadership, organizational justice, ethical climates, employee flourishing, engagement, resilience, and organizational effectiveness. By integrating culturally grounded theorizing with rigorous empirical inquiry, this collection aims to broaden the intellectual foundations of organizational psychology and generate knowledge that is both academically valuable and practically relevant across diverse organizational settings.This research topic welcomes empirical, conceptual, methodological, systematic review, bibliometric, and mixed-method studies that advance culturally grounded organizational psychology across diverse, non-WEIRD contexts. We encourage contributions that examine how local values, indigenous knowledge systems, and contextually relevant theories can enrich understanding of leadership, organizational behaviour, employee well-being, workplace ethics, organizational justice, and organizational effectiveness.Relevant themes include culturally embedded leadership models (e.g., Ubuntu and other indigenous leadership philosophies), indigenous conceptualizations of leadership effectiveness, organizational justice, employee flourishing and meaningful work, ethical workplace climates, organizational citizenship, relational and community-oriented workplaces, indigenous management philosophies, decolonization of organizational psychology and management science, emic-etic integration, and contextually relevant theory development. Studies focused on the development, adaptation, validation, and cross-cultural evaluation of organizational measures, as well as innovative qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method approaches, are also encouraged.Submissions may include Original Research, Methods articles, Systematic Reviews (including Meta-Analyses), Reviews, Hypothesis and Theory articles, Conceptual Analyses, Perspectives, and Brief Research Reports. Topic editors: Anton Grobler, LMM Hewitt, Maniam Kaliannan Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/85405/advancing-organizational-psychology-through-non-weird-perspectives-on-leadership-measurement-and-workplace-behaviour