PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Job Performance, Absenteeism, Psych

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

Module 17: industrial and organizational psychology (17. 1)personnel psych: hiring and maintaining an effective workforce. Job analysis: process of writing a detailed description of a position in terms of the required knowledge, abilities, skills, and other characteristics required to succeed, as well as evaluating the value of the position for the overall organization. Ksaos: knowledge, skills, abilities, and other traits required for a specific job. Subject-matter experts: people who have technical expertise related to the job. Job crafting: taking on or creating additional roles and tasks for a position over time. Unstructured interview: an employer discusses a variety of job and personality-related topics with a candidate with relatively few prepared questions to guide the conversation. Structured interviews: present the same set of questions to each job candidate with planned follow-up questions. Validation studies: researchers administer tests to a large sample of incumbents and evaluate their performance to find correlations between job performance and personality traits or cognitive abilities.