How do we make change? Thoughts from Psychology Today

I'm starting with Google, tinkering around to find out more about Institutional Psychology, and to see what concept or term or idea I can bring into Rhet/Comp to help me with my project of making change.  Today, I got lucky, and I came across a really interesting article by Mikhail Lyubansky.  The article is called "Creating Institutional Change: A Short Primer" and it was published in Psychology Today.

Early in the article, Lyubansky makes an observation that correlates with what I've been noticing regarding the literature about how to 'solve the Contingent Labor crisis.'  What I've seen is that the research is less about solutions and more about hashing out the problem again, and again, and again.  Lyubansky has seen this too:

 I can’t help but observe that speakers often do a tremendous job of describing, illustrating, and researching the problem, whatever that problem might be, but rarely offer anything specific in the way of either response or prevention. This is the case despite the fact that the audience is often remarkably hungry for anything prescriptive.

 So, in this article Lyubansky synthesizes literature about how to create institutional change, and he shares these observations with us.  He notes, "though institutional change focuses on institutions rather than individuals, the whole point of changing institutions is to benefit those individuals who are being unfairly treated by the system/institution."  Absolutely.  Positively.  Great observation.  Now, Lyubansky is really talking about race, culture, and community, specifically racial prejudices and segregation, but I think that these tips can be applied to researching labor structures which are often based on racial, class, and gendered divides.

Here are his suggestions:

1. Work within your sphere of influence
2. Before coming up with a 'solution' that will impact marginalized peoples, make sure you listen to marginalized voices
3. Become an ally to members of an oppressed out-group
4. Take initiative but maintain accountability
5. Find allies within your own group
6. Build relationships with power brokers

These are super basic, but good to remember, especially the parts about working where you are, interacting with the populations that you're 'developing solutions for,' finding allies, being accountable, etc.  This is a good start.  

Now I still need to find out more about institutional psychology.  This article came up when I searched "institutional psychology," and it's about changing institutions and is in a psychology publication--is this institutional psychology?