ORG 8122 - Personnel and Work Psychology

(3 units)

Applications of psychology in facilitating the interactions of an organization with its workers. Emphases will be placed on job and task analysis, criterion theory and development, personnel recruitment, selection, placement and classification and human performance/human factors. Issues of assignment of people, the development of measures of their cost and contribution and their training, career development and motivation are considered. Labor relations and the legal constraints on personnel practices will be introduced.