Industrial/Organizational Psychology PDF

CHAPTER 1: What is the difference between IO Psychologist & INDUSTRIAL/ ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Business-trained Human Resource Practitioners? It is a branch of psychology that applies the principles Scenario: Addre...

CHAPTER 1: What is the difference between IO Psychologist & INDUSTRIAL/ ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Business-trained Human Resource Practitioners? It is a branch of psychology that applies the principles Scenario: Addressing Company Bankruptcy of psychology to the workplace. HR Practitioners  Principles of learning are used to develop Operational and Managerial: training programs and incentive plans.  Principles of social psychology are used to Concentrates on managing day-to-day HR activities form work groups and understand employee and organizational processes during bankruptcy. conflict.  Principles of motivation and emotion are used - Team building activities to motivate and satisfy employees. (Maslow’s - Job search assistance Hierarchy of needs) - Financial planning workshop INDUSTRIAL APPROACH Saving the company  focuses on individual employee performance and job-related aspects. IO Psychologist ORGANIZATIONAL APPROACH Psychological and Behavioral:  creates an organizational structure and culture Concentrates on the psychological and behavioral that will motivate employees to perform well. impacts of bankruptcy on employees MAJOR FIELD IN I/O PSYCHOLOGY - Psychological Assessment  Personnel psychology - deals with analyzing - Evaluation and Feedback jobs, recruiting applicants, selecting Saving the people employees, determining salary levels, training employees, and evaluating employee Why do we need an I/O psychologist? performance.  Organizational psychology - concerned with the issues of leadership, job satisfaction, organizational communication, conflict management, organizational change.  Human Factors/Ergonomics - concentrate on workplace design, human-machine interaction, ergonomics THE IO PSYCHOLOGIST  I/O psychology relies extensively on research, quantitative methods, and testing techniques.  I/O psychologists are trained to use empirical data and statistics rather than intuition to make decisions.  BRIEF HISTORY IN I/O PSYCHOLOGY Hugo Munsterberg - Used the term “industrial psychology” during World War I (previously called “economic psychology,” “business psychology,” and “employment psychology” Walter Dill Scott - Theory advertising (in which psychology was first applied to business - He believed that psychological principles could improve workplace efficiency and productivity. Bruce Moore & Merrill Ream - First Ph.D. in I/O psychology (1921) Hawthorne studies demonstrated that the interpersonal interactions between managers and employees played a tremendous role in employee behavior