IndustrialOrganizationalPsychologyLearningModule.pptVIP

Industrial-Organizational Psychology Learning Module Lesson Objectives Understand the psychological basis for selection research Understand the economic value of selection to an organization Understand how the quality of selection programs may be assessed Understand various methods used in personnel selection Understand one suggested process for developing a selection system Appreciate the legal environment within which I/O psychologists working with organizational selection systems in the United States operate Historical/Psychological Basis for Selection Research Psychological Underpinnings of Selection Research Individual Differences/Psychophysical Research Sir Francis Galton Gustav Fechner Psychometrics and Intelligence Testing Alfred Binet, Charles Spearman, L.L. Thurstone Applied Psychology Hugo Munsterberg – “Father of Industrial Psychology” Military Efforts Robert Mearns Yerkes – Army Alpha Beta Personality Testing Raymond Cattell – 16PF Harrison Gough – CPI Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Paul Costa Robert McCrae – NEO-PI-R Why Selection Makes Good Business Sense. Improves organizational performance Separates applicants who are more likely to perform successfully from those who are less likely to perform successfully Identifies people who have the skills and abilities to perform up to expectations and improves “fit” between personal KSAs and job requirements Helps to ensure equal opportunity for employment decision making Development Model Job Analysis Basis for many Human Resources Decisions Training Performance Selection, etc. Job Analysis Content Task and Work Activity Analysis Tools and Equipment Work Environment Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other Characteristics Analysis Methods of Job Analysis Data Collection Use of Job Analysis in Selection System Design Reliability Reliability – score consistency Test-Retest Alternate-Forms Internal-Consistency Inter-Rater Validity Validity – accuracy of interpretation I/O psychologists conduc