I/O Psych Test 1

I/o Psych Cards for test 1

I/O Psych (what does it mean?)

the scientific study of human behavior in orginizations and work place.

Also known as the psychology of work

Industrial/Organizational

Individual level (personal psych)

Employee and job are interlinked!

They focus on recruitment, selection, job analysis, job design, performance evulation, training and development, as well as promotion, transfer, and termination

Industrial/Organizational

More so on the orgainization level

Focuses on an culture and climate, leadership, motivation, team dynamics

Related fields to I/O Psych

social psych

human factors psych

consumer psych

HRM

Business

Managment

I/O Psych VS HR

I/O is a scientific displine, whereas HR is more of a managment function

I/O is more employee facing, whereas HR is organization facing

I/O psych will work OUTSIDE an organization, and HR would work for organinzations

I/O psych implements evidence- based practices to address worekr concerns, HR involved day-to-day activities such as recurting

What are I/o Psychologists?

Scientists/researchers

consultants

teachers/professors

Where do i/o psychologists work?

colleges/universities

HR

consulting firms

government

military

what do i/o psychologists do?

they use research to, select and place, and for training/development

Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs

developed in the 1940’s

focus more on the humanistic point f theory

humans have needs; its what motivates human behavior

bottom needs first

modern understanding: stimulius

work can satisify many needs

Fiske’s 5 core social motitives (BUC(k)ET)

Belonging

Understanding

Control

Enhancing self

Control

Trust

I/O Psych IS APART of the APA

This means that I/O psychs need to follow all the APA Guidelines such as:

Beneficence and Responsibility

Integrity

Justice

Respect for peoples rights/diginity

SIOP (principles set by them)

ethical research, education, and practice

inspire health

trusted authority

positive community

diversity

timely and meaningful

positive impact

What are themes in I/O psych?

Good Work! Work that is meangiful and promotes positive work! Contributes to society and connects to positive psychology

I/O psych was born out of the industrial revolution

this is when it went from farm workers to factory workers, though it was chaotic.

The focus was on increasing productivity

The term of i/o psych did not exist quite yet, but some called it ‘economic psych’

Who was William Wundt?

He founded one of the first psychological labs in 1876 in Germany

First person to differ between phil and ‘med’

took a more experimental apporach

intrested in general laws

sensations and reactions

coined indivdual differences as error

Two of the most famous I/O Psychs studided under him (Hugo Münsterberg and James McKeen Cattell

Who was Hugo Münsterberg?

He would leave Germany in 1892

He ended up being the director of psych labs at Harvard

he thought that there was no value in applying psych to work

Later, researched Industry effencity and pushed for I/O, thought it would lead for economic development!

He would be one of the first people to measure abilities in workers (such as efficacy) and tie them to performance.

Applied rudimentary statistics to “analyze” results

James Mckeen Cattel

Graduated University of Penn in 1888 and Columbia University in 1893