Industrial and organizational psychology
The organizational psychology is the branch of psychology that deals with the interaction of individuals and organization. These include description and change of experience, behavior and attitudes of people in organizations as well as conditions that affect these states and changes. In contrast to the organizational sociology, the psychology primarily concerned in this context with structures and processes at the individual level. The human engineering is an application-oriented part of the field of organizational psychology, which is limited to an economic environment in the analyzes.
The analysis refers to both people in for-profit companies ( industry, trade ), as well as in non-profit organizations (hospitals, universities, etc. ).
Topics
Be content in the organizational psychology, among others following topics covered:
- Organizational choice by the individual
- Personnel Selection
- Communication in Organizations
- Learning in organizations
- Making Sense
- Aspects of the job analysis, human resource development, coaching
- Groups and group work
- Conflicts and Conflict Management
- Work motivation, job satisfaction
- Presence of motivation
- Time management
- Bullying, internal termination,
- Industrial safety: stress, burnout, psychological stress, working hours
- Managerial Psychology
- Cross-cultural management, diversity, equality
- Organizational climate, organizational culture
- Absenteeism, turnover
ABO
Due to close properly logical relationships with two adjacent areas, the organizational psychology is taught as part of the so-called ABO (work, industrial and organizational psychology) in Germany. The work includes psychology, however - in addition to the organizational aspects - especially the analysis, evaluation and design of human work activities and the interaction of man and machine ( Engineering Psychology ). The latter, for example, the analysis of psychological conditions for safe work. Furthermore, the performance possibilities of organizational psychology are to be discussed in connection with the pragmatically oriented professional inventory of industrial psychology, which in turn is the reaching beyond the economic context organizational psychology systematically subordinated.