Industrial Psychology Flashcards
What are the 3 fields that I-O psychology is comprised of?
- Industrial psychology
- Organizational psychology
- Human factors
The alteration of behavior by the subjects of a study due to their awareness of being observed.
“Observation changes behavior”
Hawthorne Effect
What are the 3 parts of job analysis?
Task analysis
Worker analysis
Organizational analysis
Duties required for successful completion of the job
Task analysis
Characteristics of the worker that enable them to compete their duties (KSAO’s)
Worker analysis
Dynamics within organization that affect the job
Organizational analysis
Ideally only 2 kinds of people would be selected for a job
Those who were 1) capable and 2) willing to do the job
The idea that a standardized instrument could capture individual differences of important psychological constructs enough to make decisions about real people
Quantitative selection
How was quantitative selection used in WWI?
The Yorke’s intelligence testing was used
A test’s ability to predict work performance, work-place learning, and other pro-work criteria based off of lower or higher scores
Job-related predictive validity
Lower scores = poorer performance
Higher scores = better performance
Identify and define the 3 validities that are needed for quantitative selection.
Content: the questions must really be testing the topic of interest
Construct (concurrent and discriminant):
Criterion (predictive)
An analysis that evaluates the impact of one variable on another across many studies
Meta-analysis
Planned and systematic activities designed to promote the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to improve individual, team, and organizational effectiveness
Training
What advantages do organizations compete in?
Organizations compete through advantages in:
◦ Finance
◦ Markets
◦ Human capital = training
What is the outcome of training?
Learning
