Course description
Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Corporate Training)
Industrial organizational psychology (or I/O psychology) is the process of understanding human behaviour and applying those lessons to the workplace. This specialty inside psychology focuses on deriving principles of individual, group, and organizational behaviour and applying them to the solve problems at work
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Who should attend?
Who Should Attend
This workshop benefits all levels of Management executives, Team Leaders, HR Managers, Front Line and Middle Managers, Consultants, HR Specialists and HR recruitment consultants.
Training content
Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology
- Psychology
- History of I/O psychology
- What can I/O psychology add to businesses
- Differences between psychology and I/O psychology
- Promoting employee performance
- Improving employee well-being
Applications of I/O psychology at the workplace
- Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude (KSA) model and Other personal/ psychological characteristics
- Job analysis
- Job-oriented approach: Person-oriented approach::Psychological tests, IQ tests, Job-relevant knowledge tests, Personality tests, Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ), Psychology in assessment centers
- Measuring job performance: Theoretical criteria, Actual criteria, Objective measures, Subjective measures
- Recruiting and selecting employees: Persuasive methods for attracting talents, Bias in unstructured interviews
- Selection Processes, Predicting job success
- Training Employees
- I/O psychology inputs in evaluating training needs and outcomes
Employee motivation
- Existence, Relatedness, and Growth (ERG) theory: Existence needs, Relatedness needs, Growth needs
- Expectancy Theory
- Goal Setting Theory
- Job satisfaction
- Work-family conflict
- Gender, age, and ethnicity
Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB)
- Psychological consequences of satisfaction
- Job performance
- Turnover
- Absenteeism
- Teamwork: Autonomous Work Teams (AWT), Group leadership, Leader-member interactions, Leader-Member Exchange (LMX)
- Counseling
Counterproductive Work Behavior (CWB)
- Aggression and counterproductive work behavior
- Occupational health psychology
- Psychological conditions affecting health
- Work schedules: Rotating shift work, Shift changes disruption, Long shifts and long weeks
Stress, accidents, and safetya
Certification / Credits
- Define what is industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology
- Use I/O psychology applications in their organizations
- Identify the impact of motivation on organizational effectiveness
- Recognize the outcomes of having a good Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB)
- Manage counterproductive work behaviors to build a meaningful culture and a positive work atmosphere
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