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Tony El-Hayek
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Appendix B Bonus
3 Subfields of I/O Psychology:
1. Personnel psychology is the selecting and evaluating of
workers in thebusiness place. They tend to focus the morale,
satisfaction, andrelationship between the workers and managers in
the business place.
To find out which person suites a position best, they test the
individual
with employment tests, interviews, selection, training, and
human factors.
2. Organizational psychology is where worker motivation,
moralsatisfaction, and productivity are categorized. These are the
people who
design employee attitude surveys and training programs.
3. Human factor psychology assesses how machines and
environments canbe designed to fit human abilities and
expectations. These designs they
make up can reduce human frustration and accidents.
Steps to design a test (Personnel Psychologists)
Structured interviews
1. Checklists on specific behaviors that describe the worker2.
Graphic rating scales checks, usually on a five-point scale, on
how often a worker is dependable, productive, etc
3. Behavior rating scales that describe a workers
performanceFlow- the involved focused state in which one loses
track of self and time resulting
from optimal engagement of ones skill (also known as being in
the zone/ example:
hitting multiple three pointers in a row in a basketball
game)
The two types of interviewing processes are unstructured and
structured
interviews. The structured interview is superior in predicting
job performance for
these reasons: use predesigned questions to measure KSAs, treat
all applicants the
same, participants are presented with work situations and are
asked how they
would handle them, and they reduce memory distortion and
biases.
Achievement motivation is the desire to receive significant
accomplishments for
mastering a skill or idea. An example of this could be LeBron
James being the best
basketball player in the league, but did not have a championship
ring (until this
year). Before winning the championship, he did everything in his
power to receive
that significant accomplishment so his skills and athleticism
could be held at thehighest standard for basketball. This showed
how LeBrons ability and his
motivation reflected his great performance for the season.
