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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

Joel Lefkowitz*
Affiliation:
Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, USA

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