INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

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  • Industrial/Organizational Psychology

    A branch of psychology that applies the principles of psychology to the workplace
  • Purpose of I/O Psychology

    To enhance the dignity & performance of human beings and the organization they work in
  • Differences between I/O Psychology and Business Programs

    • Research Method
    • Quantitative Methods
    • Employee Selection
    • Organizational Psychology/Behavior
    • Psychometrics/Test Construction
    • Training and Development
    • Performance Appraisal
    • Finance
    • Marketing
    • Corporate Strategies and Policies
    • Accounting
    • Information Systems
    • Economics
    • Operations Management
    • Culture/Global/International Business
    • Ethics
  • Major Fields of I/O Psychology

    • Personnel Psychology
    • Organizational Psychology
    • Human Factors/Ergonomics
  • Personnel Psychology

    • Analyzing Jobs
    • Recruiting Applicants
    • Selecting Employees
    • Determining Salary Levels
    • Training Employees
    • Evaluating Employee's Performance
  • Organizational Psychology

    • Leadership Styles
    • Job Satisfaction
    • Employee Motivation
    • Organizational Communication
    • Conflict Management
    • Organizational Change
    • Group processes
  • Human Factors/Ergonomics
    • Workplace design
    • Human-Machine interaction
    • Ergonomics
    • Physical Fatigue
    • Stress
  • Brief History of I/O Psychology

    • 1900-1920
    • 1918-World War 1
    • 1920-1940
    • 1960s
    • 1970s
    • 1980s and 1990s
    • 2000s
  • Walter Dill Scott publishes The Theory of Advertising in 1903
  • Hugo Munsterberg publishes Psychology and Industrial Efficiency in 1913
  • Journal of Applied Psychology first published in 1917
  • John Watson (behaviorism) developed tests (perceptual and motor tests) for potential pilots during World War I
  • Thomas Edison's 163-item knowledge test (tested 900 applicants, only 5% passed)
  • First Ph.D. in I/O Psychology awarded to Bruce Moore and Merrill Ream at Carnegie Tech in 1921
  • First I/O textbook written by Morris Viteles in 1932
  • Hawthorne Studies published in 1933
  • American Association for Applied Psychology Established in 1937
  • Passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s
  • Increased use of sophisticated statistical techniques & analytical methods in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Rapid advances in technology in the 2000s
  • Changing demographic makeup of the workforce in the 2000s
  • Employment Settings of I/O Psychologists

    • Education
    • Private Sector
    • Public Sector
    • Consulting
    • Other
  • Educational Requirements and Types of Programs

    • Bachelor's Degree
    • Master's Degree
    • Doctoral Degree
  • Why Conduct Research?

    • Answering questions and making decisions
    • Research and Everyday Life
    • Common Sense is often wrong
  • Considerations in Conducting Research

    • Ideas, hypotheses, and theories
    • Literature reviews
    • The locations of the study
    • The research method to be used
    • Subject samples
    • Data collection procedures & statistical analysis
  • Idea
    A question or suggestion about what to research
  • Hypothesis
    A well thought-out suggestion or idea about what will happen
  • Theory
    A systematic set of assumptions regarding the nature and cause of particular events
  • Social Loafing Example

    • Idea: People don't work as hard in a group as when they are alone
    • Hypothesis: When pulling on a rope, a person working by himself will exert more force than a person working in a group
    • Theory: 1. Sucker effect, 2. Free-rider, 3. Individual effort will not be noticed
  • Noise Example

    • Idea: Does all this noise affect my employees' performance?
    • Hypothesis: High levels of noise will increase the number of errors made in assembling electronic components
    • Theory: Noise causes a distraction making it difficult to concentrate
  • Recruitment Example

    • Idea: What employee recruitment source is best?
    • Hypothesis: Employee referrals will result in employees who stay with the company longer than will the other recruitment methods
    • Theory: 1. Realistic job preview, 2. Differential source, 3. Personality similarity, 4. Socialization
  • Where to Find Previous Research
    • Written sources (Journals, Trade Magazines, Bridge publications, Magazines, Books)
    • Electronic Resources (PsychINFO, Infotrac, Web of science, The Internet)
  • Where to Conduct Research

    • Laboratory
    • Field
    • Office
  • Research Methods

    • Experiment
    • Quasi-experiment
    • Case study
    • Correlation
    • Survey
    • Interview
    • Natural observation
  • Experiment
    Independent variable is manipulated and subjects are randomly assigned to conditions
  • Quasi-experiment
    Independent variable is not manipulated or subjects are not randomly assigned to conditions
  • Considerations for Subjects

    • Size
    • Students vs. "real world"
    • Inducements to Participate (Extra credit, Money, Intrinsic reasons, Ordered to participate)
  • If investigating whether the length of time it took for an employee to report sexual harassment influenced jurors' decisions, students as subjects would be different from having people from the community
  • The inducement used to get subjects to participate could affect the type of person agreeing to participate