INDUSTRIAL-ORGANISATIONAL

PSYCHOLOGY
• Course Code HRM301

• Course Title : INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

 Text Book
• TextBook: PSYCHOLOGY AND WORK TODAY

• Author: SCHULTZ, SYDNEY ELLEN SCHULTZ

• Publisher: PEARSON
 Reference Book
• Title: ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY
• Author : SS CHANDRA, RAM NATH SHARMA
• Publisher Name : ATLANTIC PUBLISHERS
 INTRODUCTION
• Industrial-organizational psychology is the branch
of psychology that applies psychological theories
and principles to organizations.

• It focuses on increasing workplace productivity

and related issues such as the physical and
mental well-being of employees.
 Industrial-organizational psychologists
perform
A wide variety of tasks, including:

• Studying worker attitudes and behavior, evaluating

companies,

• Conducting leadership training.

• The overall goal of this field is to study and

understand human behavior in the workplace.
TWO SIDES OF I-O PSYCHOLOGICAL

First, there is the industrial side:

• Which involves looking at how best individuals can be
matched to specific job roles. referred to as Personnel
psychology.

Industrial side of I-O psychology:

Training employees, developing job performance standards,
and measuring job performance.
• The organizational side of psychology is more
focused on understanding how organizations
affect individual behavior.

• Aims to improve individual performance and

health while at the same time benefiting the
organization as a whole.
 I-O psychology has a number of different
sub-areas

• Human-computer interaction,
• Personnel psychology, and 
• Human factors.
 Key Subject Areas

• Employee selection
• Ergonomics
• Organizational development
• Performance management
• Training and development
• Work life
 Industrial-Organizational Psychology Topics

• Employee motivation
• Employee testing
• Leadership
• Product design
• Workplace diversity
• Workplace performance
 Careers in IO Psychology

• Colleges, Universities, and Professional School

• Management, Scientific, and Technical

Consulting Services

• Scientific Research and Development Services

• State Government
 Important People in IO Psychology History

• Frederick W. Taylor: Taylor was a mechanical engineer who

published an influential book on improving industrial efficiency.

• Hugo Münsterberg: Munsterberg was an applied psychologist

who wrote an early text on how psychology could be used for
industrial, occupational, and organizational purposes. His work
had an important impact on the early development of the field. 

• James McKeen Cattell: Cattell was an early proponent of looking

at how individual differences influence human behavior. 
• Kurt Lewin: Lewin was an influential applied psychologist
who described a number of leadership styles that people
may exhibit. His work also focused on looking at all of the
forces that influence a situation rather than just taking
individual behavior into account.

• Robert Yerkes: Yerkes was a psychologist known for his work

in the field of intelligence testing. He developed the Alpha
and Beta Intelligence Tests for the U.S. Army, which were
use to evaluate military recruits during WWI. Scores on the
tests were used to determine respondent's capabilities,
including ability to serve and leadership potential.
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• The Hawthorne experiments were originally designed
by the National Research Council to study the effect of
shop-floor lighting on worker productivity at a
telephone parts factory in Hawthorne.

• However, the researchers were perplexed to find that

productivity improved, not just when the lighting was
improved, but also when the lighting was diminished.

• Productivity improved whenever changes were made in

other variables such as working hours and rest breaks.