Industrial Organizational Psychology Explained
Summary
TLDRSheree Mansfield, an industrial-organizational psychology consultant, introduces the field of IO psychology, emphasizing its application in enhancing workplace efficiency and productivity. She outlines the role of IO psychologists in talent management, performance assessment, and training program development. Mansfield highlights the benefits of incorporating IO psychology, such as improved employee engagement, motivation, and team environments, and suggests interventions like flexible work practices and reward systems to foster a happier and more productive workforce.
Takeaways
- 📚 Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology is a scientific study of the workplace where psychological rigor and methods are applied to business issues.
- 🔍 I/O psychologists help organizations with talent management, coaching, assessments, selection, training, organizational development, performance, and work-life balance.
- 💡 The role of an I/O psychologist may include designing assessments to identify potential employees with the right personality for a job or diagnosing and improving ineffective training programs.
- 🛠️ Organizations can benefit from I/O psychology by increasing productivity, recruiting the right people, improving hiring processes, enhancing performance, fostering team environments, and boosting motivation and dedication.
- 🔑 Incorporating I/O psychology can help address issues like low employee engagement by creating organizational conditions that support high levels of employee participation, leading to increased performance.
- 🔄 Organizations are using I/O psychologists to redefine the traditional workweek, including flexible work practices such as flexible schedules, telecommuting, compressed workweeks, job sharing, and part-time work.
- 🤝 I/O psychologists assist in developing reward systems that can improve employee satisfaction and performance, such as goal-setting and performance-based pay programs.
- 🌟 The speaker, Sheree Mansfield, is an I/O psychology consultant aiming to increase knowledge about the application of psychology in the workplace and provide ways to apply these concepts to organizations.
- 🤔 The script encourages audience interaction by inviting questions and emphasizing the speaker's role in helping to clarify and expand upon I/O psychology concepts.
- 🏢 The benefits of applying psychological concepts to the workplace are highlighted as a way to focus on matters that make organizations operate more effectively and efficiently.
- 🚀 The presentation concludes with a call to action for the audience to implement the discussed I/O psychology concepts into their businesses for improved outcomes.
Q & A
What is the full form of IO psychology?
-Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
What is the primary focus of an IO psychologist?
-IO psychologists focus on applying psychological principles and research methods to improve various aspects of the workplace, such as talent management, coaching, assessments, selection, training, organizational development, performance, and work-life balance.
What is the role of an IO psychologist in talent management?
-An IO psychologist may design assessments to help organizations identify potential employees who possess the right personality traits for success in a particular job.
How can IO psychologists assist with ineffective training programs?
-IO psychologists can diagnose the issues with existing training programs and formulate and design more effective training programs to improve performance.
What are some benefits of applying IO psychology concepts to the workplace?
-Benefits include increased productivity, better recruitment and hiring practices, improved performance, fostering a team environment, and increased motivation and dedication among employees.
How can IO psychologists help with employee engagement issues?
-IO psychologists can conduct engagement interventions to create organizational conditions that support high levels of employee participation, which can lead to increased performance.
What is one way IO psychologists are helping to redefine the traditional workweek?
-IO psychologists are assisting organizations in implementing flexible work practices, such as flexible schedules, telecommuting, compressed workweeks, job sharing, and part-time work.
What is an example of an organizational issue that an IO psychologist might address?
-An IO psychologist might be brought in to develop criteria to evaluate employee performance if an organization's performance management systems are found to be flawed.
How can IO psychologists contribute to employee satisfaction and happiness at work?
-They can help develop and implement better reward systems, such as goal-setting programs and pay-for-performance programs, and offer greater freedom and flexibility in work arrangements.
What is the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology known as?
-It is commonly referred to as SIOP.
What does SIOP's definition of IO psychology emphasize?
-SIOP emphasizes that IO psychology is a scientific study of the workplace where rigorous and methodical psychological approaches are applied to address business issues.
Outlines
📚 Introduction to Industrial Organizational Psychology
Sheree Mansfield introduces herself as an industrial organizational (I-O) psychology consultant and expresses her desire to educate the audience on the application of psychology in the workplace. She outlines the agenda for the presentation, which includes defining I-O psychology, discussing its applications, benefits, and strategies for incorporating I-O psychology into organizations. The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) is mentioned as a key authority on the subject, defining I-O psychology as the scientific study of workplace issues using rigorous psychological methods. Examples of I-O psychology applications include talent management, coaching, assessments, selection, training, organizational development, and addressing performance and work-life balance issues.
💼 Benefits and Implementation of I-O Psychology
The second paragraph delves into the benefits of applying I-O psychology in the workplace, such as increased productivity, effective recruitment, improved performance, and fostering a team environment. It also touches on the role of I-O psychologists in diagnosing and resolving organizational issues like ineffective training programs and flawed performance management systems. The paragraph emphasizes the importance of incorporating I-O psychology to address employee engagement and motivation, suggesting interventions like engagement interventions and the redefinition of work practices to include flexibility and telecommuting. The speaker also mentions the potential of I-O psychologists to help develop better reward systems for employees, such as goal-setting and performance-based pay programs, concluding with a thank you note for the audience's attention and participation.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Industrial Organizational Psychology
💡Talent Management
💡Coaching
💡Assessments
💡Training
💡Organizational Development
💡Performance Management
💡Work-Life Balance
💡Employee Engagement
💡Flexible Work Practices
💡Reward Systems
Highlights
Introduction to industrial organizational psychology and its application in the workplace.
Definition of industrial organizational (I-O) psychology by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).
I-O psychology as a scientific study of the workplace, applying psychological rigor to business issues.
Examples of business issues I-O psychology addresses: talent management, coaching, assessments, selection, training, organizational development, performance, and work-life balance.
Role of I-O psychologists in designing assessments to identify potential employees with suitable personalities for job success.
I-O psychologists diagnosing ineffective training and performance issues within organizations.
Development of effective training programs by I-O psychologists to improve organizational performance.
I-O psychologists' involvement in evaluating performance management systems and developing criteria for employee evaluation.
Benefits of applying psychological concepts to the workplace: increased productivity, better recruitment, improved performance, fostering team environments, and enhanced motivation.
Strategies for incorporating I-O psychology concepts into businesses to address employee engagement and motivation issues.
Use of engagement interventions by I-O psychologists to create conditions that support high levels of employee participation and performance.
Redefining the traditional workweek with flexible work practices, such as flexible schedules, telecommuting, compressed workweeks, job sharing, and part-time work.
The role of I-O psychologists in helping organizations offer employees greater freedom and happiness through flexible work arrangements.
Addressing employee complaints about work-life balance by implementing better reward systems, such as goal-setting and pay-for-performance programs.
Closing remarks expressing gratitude for attention and participation, and hope for implementing discussed concepts in businesses.
Transcripts
hello everyone I hope all is well my
name is Sheree Mansfield and I'm an
industrial organizational psychology
consultant I appreciate the opportunity
to speak with you today and hope to
increase your knowledge about how
psychology is applied in the workplace
currently and also how you can apply it
to your organization's alright let's get
started we're going to start out by
talking about what exactly is industrial
organizational psychology that's a
pretty fancy title isn't it or as some
call it
iö psychology some of you may not have
heard about it
some may have but just don't know
exactly what it is and some may just
want more information about it wherever
you are as far as your understanding I'm
here to help you and try to answer many
questions that you may have so feel free
to ask away that's what I'm here for
we'll then move to talking about some of
the examples of how it's used in the
field
we'll talk also about the benefits of
applying io concepts to the workplace
and then end with talking about ways in
which you can incorporate IO psychology
concepts to your organization
the Society for industrial and
organizational psychology our SIOP as we
call them has a very definitive
definition of il psychology they note
that it's a scientific study of the
workplace rigor and methods of
psychology are applied to business
issues those issues may include talent
management coaching assessments
selection training organizational
development performance and work-life
balance
an organization may be looking for an
employee who has a particular
personality that would allow him or her
to be successful in the job the
organization may have an IO psychologist
design an assessment that will help the
organization to identify the potential
employee you also may have an
organization that would need an IO
psychologist to diagnose this
organization let's just say that the
training was not effective and
performance was low so what the IO
psychologists will come in and do is
they will formulate and design an
effective training program for this
organization you also may have an
organization whose performance
management systems have flaws in it in
this situation the IO psychologist would
be brought in to develop a criteria to
evaluate the performance of the
employees
now let's talk about some of the
benefits of applying psychological
concepts to the workplace as many of you
know your organization's spent a lot of
time focusing on profits and not as
nearly as much on psychological matters
and issues the ILO psychologist can help
the organization to focus on the matters
that will help make them operate more
effectively and efficiently some of the
benefits of using an IO psychologist
include increased productivity
recruiting the right people that fit the
organization hiring better people
increase performance fostering a team
environment and increase motivation and
dedication
so now that we talked about some of the
benefits of il psychology concepts let's
talk about how we can incorporate those
into your businesses many of you would
agree that your organization's are not
running perfectly
possibly you're having issues with
employee engagement these issues are
causing your employees not to be
motivated to work in this situation you
could help resolve this problem by
having an IO psychologist do an
engagement intervention these
interventions create organizational
conditions that support high levels of
employee participation these types of
inventions will often lead to increase
performance organizations are using IO
psychologists to try to redefine the
traditional workweek so that your
organization's can have employees that
are actually happy the redefinition
includes flexible work practices which
cludes flexible schedules control over
when to start and lets us stop working
telecommuting working outside the office
compress work weeks completing a week's
worth of work in less than five days is
that awesome job sharing to employees
being responsible for performing one job
and part time work they are often more
common than ever nowadays with the help
of IO psychologists these psychologists
are helping employees to be happy and
they're taking advantage of offering the
employee greater freedom it also could
be they in your current organization and
please complain about working too hard
for the money that they're making
possibly it would benefit to have an IO
psychologist help develop and implement
a better reward system for your
employees these could include programs
such as goal-setting programs are paid
for performance programs
thank you for all of your attention
today and actually taking the time to
listen to this presentation thank you so
much for the participation I had a great
time and I hope that you all will be
able to actually implement some of the
things that we talked about into your
businesses I really look forward to
being able to do this again one day
everyone had a great day thank you so
much
you
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