Psychology 281 Course Outline

Lesson 1: Introduction and History of I/O

Lesson 2: Research Methods

Lesson 3: Job Analysis

Lesson 4: Criterion Measurement

Lesson 5: Predicting Performance

Lesson 6: Recruitment and Selection

Lesson 7: Performance Appraisal

Lesson 8: Training and Development

Lesson 9: Motivation

Lesson 10: Job Attitudes

Lesson 11: Leadership

Lesson 12: Teams and Work Groups

Lesson 13: Organizational Change and Development

Lesson 14: Health and Safety at Work

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"I can think of few other fields of work that are as critical to human welfare as I/O Psychology. We spend much more of our lifetimes engaged in working than in any other activity. Thus I/O Psychology is devoted to understanding our major mission in life”

Muchinsky, 2003, page 20; Psychology Applied to Work

One of the things I've enjoyed most about being an industrial-organizational psychologist is being first a psychologist. ... What was also appealing to me was ... I found that in I/O psychology I could also pursue my interest in management, in political science, and in sociology... "

Pond, Psi Chi Publication

“While people have always been central to organizations, today they have taken on even more central role in building a firm’s competitive advantage”

Bohlander & Snell, 2004, page 2; Managing Human Resources

"Keep in mind that at its core, I/O is a scientific field that is devoted to discovery and application of scientific principles to human problems in the workplace. What makes us a little different from many scientific fields is that we are an applied science. Thus we have both a scientific and a practitioner side (much like engineering)."

Paul E. Spector

"I/O psychologists are dedicated to applying psychology to people in the workplace. No, they are not "shrinks," rather, their field of psychology tries to understand and measure human behavior to improve employees' satisfaction in their work, employers' ability to select and promote the best people, and to generally make the workplace better for the men and women who work there."

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP.org)