PSYCH339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tape Measure, Intelligence Quotient, Dependent And Independent Variables
27 Jul 2018
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Lecture 1: personnel and industrial psych are the same thing, org psych is diff because it deals with teams, satisfaction, leadership, personnel deals with selecting workers, defining requirements, training, moneyball movie = story of manager of sports team. In the movie they weren"t able to pay as much for the best players. So how do they compete with fewer resources. So, he buys out players that are good with his predictor, but not with competitions predictors. You ha(cid:448)e to a(cid:272)(cid:272)ept so(cid:373)e error to (cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:373)ize error, (cid:272)ause (cid:455)ou (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e right e(cid:448)er(cid:455) ti(cid:373)e. e(cid:454). Scientific systematic personnel selection work swell in aggregate over long term. May not work for hiring only one single person or in the short run. Frederick taylor came up with this in early 1900s. They had them working less and less and they kept producing more and more. Variance: we need successful people to have a successful organization.
