Week 1 DQs
Describe some of the major activities and tasks an industrial/organizational
psychologist performs.
People in the developed world will come in contact with companies daily. The super
market is a company so is a department store. Operating a company or organization
can be very difficult particularly when you're selecting different kinds of people. You are
attempting to have a variety of people to join well together to benefit the company.
Industrial/organizational psychiatrist might help in assisting companies with their
employee-related issues. Several times companies will employ the psychiatrists to
assist them to work through the issues in the company. A few examples of how I/O
psychiatrists have assisted are as follows; they have assisted General Electric have a
system which helps them give workers their job efficiency comments and they have
assisted the United States Army manage psychologist assessments so the recruits may
be placed in the most suitable jobs. In case your enterprise is a part of a big company
most likely the company will have an I/O psychiatrist. Actually, the I/O psychiatrist can
help companies in creating the application, coaching, salary, and benefit package. They
can also help in worker health problems, inspiration, and security. They are certainly
well rounded people who assist the different companies to achieve success and
flourish.
I desire that the company that I work for would employ an I/O psychiatrist. Problems
have definitely developed between people who could have easily been handled by an
I/O psychiatrist.
Describe the history of industrial/organizational psychology.
Industrial/organizational psychology started with Hugo Munsterberg and Walter Dill
Scott by way of using psychology to the issues of companies. Industrial/organizational
psychology started late 18 early 1900's. Job efficiency and organizational effectiveness
was the goal (Spector, 2008). There are lots of different historical situations that I/O
psychology was in correlation to. Frederick Winslow Taylor a technician whose
development of Scientific Management, which has a lot of rules, which assists
organizational practices (Spector, 2008). Over the years improving older methods
assisted to create new methods. During 1921, Penn State issued its 1st PhD in I/O to
Bruce V. Moore. The army was known to use I/O psychology during The First World
War, and between the two World wars I & II, provided a good start to the a field which
companies use these days and will go on to improve and use. Industrial/organization is
an area of psychology which can be used in several fields. I/O has grown to become
essential for the industry and the companies which work for the improvement of
community. The background provides I/O psychiatrists better perspectives and
techniques.
Organizations often consider on-staff industrial/organizational psychologists as
cost with no revenue return. What might industrial/organizational psychologists
do to demonstrate their value to organizational leaders?
The historical past of industrial organizational psychiatrist demonstrates their usefulness
to any company with the services they provide. I think the one area
industrial/organizational psychiatrists can show their importance to organizational
leaders is developing efficiency evaluation methods. A good efficiency evaluation
method would boost both worker and administration moral while saving the company
money. Most organizations give a standard salary rise of 1 to 3 % regardless of how the
employees performed their duties. This method creates negative attitudes and
behaviors since workers consider the method as not be good or rewarding for their
valuable and devoted job performance. The development of a good efficiency
evaluation method would provide the motivation for workers to raise the bar of the
efficiency and devotion to the company. Having a good efficiency evaluation method set
up everybody could be assisted by way of a good feedback efficiency evaluation. The
reports would be personalized and could offer follow-up training classes, particularly
self-insight executive training classes concentrating on personal strengths, selfawareness, development areas, and methods for modification.
I think in case industrial/organizational psychiatrists would demonstrate how useful their
techniques are for other companies this might be used in their benefit, but most
important providing research and studies, creating a strategy, after that applying the
plan, while demonstrating improvement. Industrial/organizational psychiatrists should
prove that their methods work or at least have an effect on the company. Showing their
value, might be written in black and white; however I think applying their technique in a
company is the perfect method of showing that their value will speak for itself,
particularly if companies wish to operate a respected organization or company which
prospers. To prosper it will require a well-organized administration and excellent staff to
assist in keeping the company maintained and expanding.