Industrial and Organizational Pyschology

Question 1

What are the two major outcomes in I/O Psychology?

Answer 1

Job performance

Job satisfaction

Question 2

What are the two main causal factors in I/O Psychology?

Answer 2

Individual characteristics
Stuff about people that vary across individuals

Organizational characteristics
Stuff about organizations that vary across organizations

Question 3

What types of questions do I/O Psychologists ask?

Answer 3

How do we select successful people at work
How do we make good hiring decisions
What leads to feelings of fairness and justice at work
How do teams function effectively

Question 4

What are signs versus samples?

Answer 4

Signs = measures that suggest or tend to indicate the presence of job relevant knowledge, skill, abilities, interests of personality traits
Samples = direct measure of relevant job knowledge and skill

Question 5

According to the Classic Theory of Job Performance, which two factors predict performance?

Answer 5

ability and prior experience

Question 6

Can tests (that measure cognitive ability) predict job performance? Are tests more important for more cognitively or less cognitively complex jobs?

Answer 6

yes, and cognitive ability should be more important for jobs that require learning a lot of complex information

Question 7

What is biodata? Why can gathering biodata be helpful?

Answer 7

Measure something about what you done

it feels like it gives us an idea of what you will do in the future/who you will be

Question 8

Does personality predict occupational attainment and leadership?

Answer 8

Personality has a correlation with emergence and effectiveness

Question 9

Does it make sense to have an expert (for instance, someone in HR or I/O Psychologist) make hiring decisions about the best applicant?

Answer 9

Decision makers tend to be inconsistent and prone to decision biases
Equations are consistent and are not influence by decision biases (better than a professional)

Question 10

What are the three components of organizational justice?

Answer 10

Distributive justice
You get your fair share of good stuff

Procedural justice
The process for making decisions and distributing good stuff is fair

Interactional justice
Sharing information, explaining decisions, and showing consideration to employees