Community series in advancing social purpose in organizations: An interdisciplinary perspective

Abstract

Social purpose is important for advancing our understanding of how to make positive impacts in society through business purpose and profit and for employees finding meaning in their lives through work. In this community series, four manuscripts highlight the importance of human and social wellbeing and what it means within an organizational psychology context. Specifically, the authors demonstrate how organizations could create innovative business models in social purpose (De Silva et al., 2021) through better management of inclusion, psychological safety, job insecurity and stress and the “United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (2015) 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, and 17”.