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• Design the best way to draw a map, creating the most pleasant workplace structure, and investigating the best work schedule Human Factors/Ergonomics
• Coordinate with professionals like engineers and other professionals to make the workplace more safe and efficient Human Factors/Ergonomics
• Pay attention to issues such as leadership, job satisfaction, employee motivation, organizational communication, conflict management, organizational change, and team processes within the organization Organizational Psychology
• Organizational Psychology Execute surveys of workers' attitudes to get information about what the workers believe are an organization’s strengths and weaknesses
• Act as a consultant, an organizational psychologists make suggestions for improvement methods in problem areas Organizational Psychology
• Implement a corporate plan to improve employee performance Organizational Psychology
• Learn and practice in areas such as job analysis, hiring applicants, selecting employees, determining salary levels, training employees, and evaluating employee performance Personnel Psychology
• Choose existing tests or create new tests that can be used to select and promote employees Personnel Psychology
• Comprehensive understanding of analyzing each employee’s job and is usually assigning monetary value for each position Personnel Psychology
• Establish performance evaluation tools to evaluate employee performance Personnel Psychology
• Check various methods that can be used to train and develop employees Personnel Psychology
• Focus on the design of the workplace, the interaction of employees and machines, ergonomics, as well as stress and physical fatigue Human Factors/Ergonomics
• alpha test is for recruits who can read and the beta test is for recruits who cannot read
• Alpha, a written test consisting of true/false and multiple-choice questions to assess abilities such as following instructions, arithmetic, and analogy.
• Army Beta pictures and other symbols to provide test instructions, and use mazes, pattern recognition, and image completion for testing.
• Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth. They were one of the first scientists to increase productivity and minimize fatigue by studying the movements used by employees.
• Hawthorne study is that it motivates psychologists to pay more attention to interpersonal relationships in the workplace and to explore the impact of employee attitudes
• 1980s and 1990s brought four major changes to I / O psychology
• Literature review use subject indexes such as PsycINFO and Infotrac, browse journals, and search for related articles And ask other researchers
• Journals consist of articles written by researchers that directly report research results
• Trade Magazines usually written by professional writers with experience in a specific field.
• Laboratory Research. A disadvantage of laboratory research is the external validity or universality of the results for organizations in the "real world"
• Field research has the opposite problem with laboratory research
• Experiment most powerful of all research methods because it is the only method by which cause-and-effect relationships can be determined.
• The employees who have received training are collectively referred to as the experimental group, and the employees who have not received the training are collectively referred to as the control group
• Quasi-experiments. It is used when experimenting by manipulating most variables is not possible
• Archival Research. Archival research involves using previously collected data or records to answer a research question
• Surveys. Another method of conducting research is to ask people their opinion on some topic.
• • Meta-Analysis is a statistical method of reaching conclusions based on previous research.
• Correlation widely used in I / O psychology
• employee selection process will determine the quality of your new employees and can affect both your day-to-day operations and the long-term success of your company
• Employee selection process of assigning the right people to the right job
• Recruitment considered a positive process as it motivates more candidates to apply for a job
• Recruitment attracting people with the right qualifications (as determined in the job analysis) to apply for the job
• internal recruitment: promote someone from within the organization external recruitment: hire someone from outside the organization
• Newspaper advertisements normally ask the applicant to respond in one of four ways
• respond by calling quickly screen applicants or hear an applicant’s phone voice
• apply-in-person ads o fill out a specific job application, or want to get a physical look at the applican
• send-resume ads when the organization expects a large response and does not have the resources to speak with thousands of applicants.
• blind box organization does not want its name to be public. Second, the company may have been concerned that people would not come forward if they knew the name of the company. Third, the company has to fire an employee on rare occasions, but a replacement must be found first