Investigating the Italian academic movement toward future directions of Work and Organizational Psychology

As scholars of work and organizational psychology, we are all aware that contemporary workplaces and organizations are radically changing, bringing about new challenges for people and their relationship with work. Our discipline responds to such challenges by taking different positions concerning organizational research and interventions. Various approaches are supported by different and separate theoretical positions which affect the way of conducting research. This echoes in the organization and evaluation of the academic system. Mutually, academics and the academic system itself perpetuate the same ideological tenets. This work aims to explore the way the Italian academic community of Work and Organizational Psychology (WOP) is adapting to new emerging contents and research objects, and to the contemporary conditions for conducting research and education in the university system.