PSYC 3480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Research Question, Hawthorne Effect, Industrial And Organizational Psychology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Dan Yarmey

Document Summary

Any type of workplace and active environment. Volunteering can be an organization and does not necessarily have to be paid job. Realize that the overall structure is important and has an impact to people. It is for the purpose of the people involved although it may be the organization but it is to impact the people who are in it. Io psychology focuses on the dignity of human beings. Io psychologists are scientists that believe in evidence, but they are obligated and guided to share that knowledge to promote change. By any other name: business, economic, employment psychology, ergonomics, human factors, human resource management, industrial psychology, organizational behaviour, organizational psychology, personnel psychology, work psychology. Look at it in organizational level, is it a flat organizational and the structure of it. Processes how do you communicate between group level and relationships, what differences exists between the teams.