What is Industrial Psychology?
Industrial and organisational psychology (also known as I/O psychology, work psychology, or personnel psychology) is the scientific study of employees, workplaces, and organizations. Industrial and organizational psychologists contribute to an organization’s success by improving the performance and well-being of its people.
Why take an Industrial Psychology Course?
Students studying industrial psychology will learn about workplace psychology and develop their management skills further to supervise staff or manage their workplace, improve workplace performance and satisfaction and also to enhance their career opportunities in psychology, counselling, management or education.
What you will do:
- Discuss basic concepts that may be relevant to understanding industrial psychology.
- Identify similarities and differences that occur in the way different employees perceive their workplace.
- Discuss the effect of personality and temperament upon industrial psychology.
- Identify applications for psychological testing in industrial management.
- Discuss the psychology of management
- Identify ways that the work environment might impact upon the psychology of people in a workplace
- Explain how motivation influences work productivity.
- Discuss the application of psychology to recruitment.
- Explain the impact of social factors upon work productivity.
- Discuss the significance of psychological disorders or abnormalities in a workplace.
There are 10 lessons in this course:
- Introduction
- Free Will versus Determinism
- Developmental and Interactive Expressions of Behaviour
- Nature versus Nurture
- Influence of Environment on Learning Behaviour
- Modelling and Conformity
- Conditioning involves Certain Environmental Factors which Encourage Learning to Take Place
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning
- Reinforcement & Punishment
- Understanding the Employees Thinking
- Sensation and Perception
- Thinking and Day Dreaming
- The Gestalt Approach
- Unconscious and Conscious Psychic Elements
- Explaining Behaviour
- Knowledge of Brain Processes
- Personal Interpretation of a Given Situation
- Instinct
- Terminology including: Mating, Curiosity, Maternal, Acquiring, Repulsion, Constructiveness, Rivalry, Laughter, Fighting, Walking, Swallowing, Play, Imitation, Sleep, Modesty, Domineering, Religion, Self Asserting, Sneezing, Thirst, Cleanliness, Workmanship, Parenting, Food seeking, Flight, Collecting, Sympathy.
- Personality & Temperament
- Mature & Immature Temperaments (e.g. Sanguine, Melancholic, Choleric, Phlegmatic
- Emotional Types
- Fear
- Intelligence
- Knowledge
- Deviation
- Psychological Testing
- The Application Form
- Psychological Test
- The Interview
- Intelligence Tests
- Laws of Learning
- Devising Tests
- Selecting Appropriate Tests
- Management & Managers
- Qualities of Managers
- Understanding Morale
- Discipline
- Training, etc.
- The Work Environment
- Noise
- Space
- Light
- Temperature
- Speed of Work, etc.
- Accidents
- Breakages
- Fatigue etc.
- Motivation and Incentives
- Maslow’s Model of Self-Actualisation
- Security
- Money
- Ambition
- Companionship
- Social Reinforcement
- Labour Wastage, etc
- Recruitment
- Ways of Seeking Applicants
- Types of Interview
- Ways of Selecting Staff
- Social Considerations
- Group Behaviour
- Conformity
- Industrial Groups
- The Hawthorne Effect
- Abnormalities and Disorders
- Psychosis
- Neurosis
- Personality Disorders
- Variance
- Partial Disability (e.g. arm, leg injuries; epilepsy, digestive disorders etc.)
- The Psycho Neurotic
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
When you have completed the lessons of your Certificate course, you will be given the option of taking the optional exam. It’s okay if you don’t want the exam, we still issue your Careerline Certificate. For Advanced Certificates however, the exam is compulsory (per module) and are included in the course fee.