Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Army General Classification Test, Army Beta, Hawthorne Effect
23 Jan 2020
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Helping individuals pursue meaningful and enriching work. Assisting organizations in the effective management of human resources. I/o includes both scientific research and professional practice. Consult with organizations by offering assessment and strategic recommendations (consumers of knowledge) Study organizations for the sake of advancing knowledge (producers of knowledge) Taylorism : maximal efficiency from human and machine, minimize skill requirements for job, learning time, separating planning from execution. Required efficient ways to select applicants and assign them to jobs. Implemented standardized testing to measure cognitive ability for placement of us soldiers. Army alpha and army beta: were 2 tests in which scores translated into grades (e. g used to differentiate officers from privates) Studied the effect of light on worker productivity. When level of illumination increased, productivity went up but when level of illumination decreased, productivity also went up. Hawthorne effect: any intervention appeared to have an effect. Key revelation: viewing an organization as a social system.
