PSYC 361 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Criterion Validity, Job Analysis, Construct Validity
6 Apr 2016
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Definition: application of psychological principles to the workplace. Industrial: technical topics, increasing job performance, quantifiable (job analysis, selection) Organizational: motivation, quality of life, reactions, leadership (work-life balance) Today: acknowledge the overlap & influence of each other. Scientist practitioner model: using both theory & application. Competencies: skills, behaviors, capabilities that allow employees to perform specific functions. Making tests to place soldiers in jobs. Hawthorne studies lighting changes in workplace revealed importance of person, not just the job. Recent past & present: increase in i/o professional community, education research, international presence. Future trends: globalization & international competition: diversity of culture, communication etc, downsizing in face of technological advances: workers being replaced with robots. 3: ethics & corporate responsibility: taking advantage of employees, rice of virtual teams & telecommuting: skype, working from home. 3 basic assumptions: empiricism: generate predictions from theory data test, determinism: behavior is orderly & systematic, discoverability: orderliness can be discovered. Construct: abstract concepts, but we want to measure.
