Course Title: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Campus Course Code: PSYC 4306
Campus: UT Permian Basin
Program: Non-Program
Course Description
PSYC 4306 is an online discovery learning course that has been developed to facilitate active discovery and exploration of information resources pertaining to industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology. The course uses a combination of independent study of textbook information and exploration of information on the Internet. Based on your required readings and Web exercises, you should gain a deeper understanding of: (1) the basic principles and techniques of personnel selection, including the purposes of psychological tests in selection; (2) the basic training and development methods used in business and industrial environments; (3) motivation, leadership, worker productivity and stress in the workplace; (4) factors related to safety and drug abuse; (5) assessment of performance; and (6) the empirical methods used to obtain answers to questions affecting employees, management and organizations in general.
Course Goals
- provide you information about the work that industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologists may perform in business and industrial settings.
- enable you to analyze critically the lay, Internet and "expert" findings in the field, and to separate fact from fiction using empirical evidence (data).
- enable you to better integrate evidence from a variety of sources and to summarize, critically analyze and synthesize that information and those data.
- provide you information about the methods I/O psychologists use to answer questions that arise in work environments, such as employee selection, training and assessment.
- provide you a level of research expertise by which one may ask "answerable" questions about issues that arise in work environments.
- help you gain a broader perspective of the complexity of the issues involved in leadership, motivation, job satisfaction, work attitudes and employee needs.
- help you gain knowledge of the physical and psychological conditions of work, and of preventing accidents and reducing stress and drug use.
- help you gain a deeper understanding of consumer psychology.
Materials
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Prerequisites: Junior or senior level standing and completion of The University's general education requirements. Exceptions will be considered with individual consultation with the instructor.
Credits:3
Level:Undergraduate
Faculty
Jim Olson
olson_j@utpb.edu
432-552-2345