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____ is the application of psychological principles and theories to the workplace.
I/O Psychology
The Industrial side of I/O involves:
Job analysis, training, selection, and performance measurement appraisal.
The Organizational side of I/O involves:
Motivation, work attitudes, and leadership, as well as structure, culture, and processes of organizations.
The skills, behaviors, and capabilities that allow employees to perform specific functions (the goal of grad. training)
Compentencies
Scientist-Practitioner Model
An approach used to train I/O psychologists maintain that because I/O psychologists are both generators and consumers of knowledge, training must be focused on both theory and application.
Most I/O psychologists are employed in:
Academics
On Dec. 20, 2901: ________ gives a talk at the Agate Club in Chicago on the psychological aspects of advertising.
Walter Dill Scott
In 1915, the division of ________ was established at Carnegie Tech (Bingham)
Applied Psychology
Munsterberg was famous for publishing:
"Psychology and Industrial Efficiency" (1913)
I/O developed faster in ____ than in America.
Europe
I/O "really came of age" during which war?
WWI (through the 1920s)
____ developed the Army Alpha and Army Beta
robert yates
Mental ability tests developed by I/O psychologists during WWI that were used to select and classify army personnel.
Army Alpha and Army Beta
During which period did I/O start to enter the private business sector?
WW I through the 1920s.
During this time period, culture became focused less on employee testing, and more on the human condition.
1930s to Pre-World WWII
A series of experiments, some of which examined the impact of illumination on productivity, that were conducted at the Western Electric Plant in Hawthorne, IL.
Hawthorne Studies
The _____ states that productivity increases when workers know they're being watched.
The Hawthorne Effect
During this time period, centers of research emerge like ART and Lewin's Center for Group Dynamics at MIT.
WWII to 60s
Relevant issues in the 21st century for I/O (5)
1. Global Competition
2. Downsizing
3. Flatter organizational structures
4. Increasing workplace diversity.
5. Impact of military needs on I/O
A process or method for generating a body of knowledge
Science
Science represents logic of ______, a way of going about doing things to increase our understanding of concepts, processes, and relationships
Logic of Inquiry
The goals of Science (4)
1. Description
2. Explanation
3. Prediction
4. Control
Assumptions of Science (3)
1. Empiricism
2. Determinism
3. Discoverability
Theory
A set of interelated constructs (concepts), definitions, and propositions that present a systematic view of a phenomenon by specifying relations among variables with the purpose of explaining and predicting the phenomenon.