Psychology 2990A/B Lecture 5: Lecture 5 - Ch.6 - I/O Psych on the Job

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Prologue: historical roots of i/o psychology: industrial psychology: personnel selection and placement. 1913: munsterberg publishes the psychology of industrial. Efficiency : to increase productivity, select people with skills that match the job requirements. Personnel selection (selecting the right person for the job) Psychologists develop two intelligence tests: army alpha and army beta (positive feedback led to more tests) Then, new tests created to select best officers, best pilots; and to eliminate the more neurotic recruits. Psychological tests could be used to screen and classify large numbers of people. Then businesses and schools wanted their own tests to select and classify people nowadays are used for jobs regularly. The o part of i-o wasn"t fully appreciated until 1924 : organizational psychology (1924): The hawthorne studies at western electric plant (in hawthorne illinois: studied the effect of environmental factors on productivity of workers (e. g. They would change the lighting, temperature, etc. ) and observe the effects results concluded any change increased productivity!