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Career Details :: Industrial-Organizational Psychologists

Description

Apply principles of psychology to personnel, administration, management, sales, and marketing problems. Activities may include policy planning; employee screening, training and development; and organizational development and analysis. May work with management to reorganize the work setting to improve worker productivity.

Experience

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education

A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks

• Develops interview techniques, rating scales, and psychological tests to assess skills, abilities, and interests as aids in selection, placement, and promotion.
• Advises management in strategic changes to personnel, managerial, and marketing policies and practices to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency.
• Studies consumer reaction to new products and package designs, using surveys and tests, and measures the effectiveness of advertising media.
• Analyzes data, using statistical methods and applications, to evaluate and measure the effectiveness of program implementation or training.
• Conducts research studies of physical work environments, organizational structure, communication systems, group interaction, morale, and motivation to assess organizational functioning.
• Plans, develops, and organizes training programs, applying principles of learning and individual differences.
• Observes and interviews workers to identify the physical, mental, and educational requirements of job.
• Analyzes job requirements to establish criteria for classification, selection, training, and other related personnel functions.

Related Careers

• Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
  
• Education Administrators, Elementary and Secondary School
  
• First-Line Supervisors, Administrative Support
  
• Human Resources Managers
  
• Instructional Coordinators
  
• Training and Development Specialists
  

Important Abilities

• Oral Comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Written Expression
• Originality
• Written Comprehension

General Work Activities

• Analyzing Data or Information
• Provide Consultation & Advice to Others
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Processing Information
• Communicating With Other Workers

Important Skills

• Information Gathering
  
• Identification of Key Causes
  
• Problem Identification
  
• Systems Evaluation
  
• Active Learning
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Consequence of Error
• Supervise, Coach, Train Others
• Provide a Service to Others
• Objective or Subjective Information

Related Majors

Major	Add to XapPack
Applied Behavioral Sciences	[ add ]
Applied Psychology	[ add ]
Behavioral Science	[ add ]
Behavioral Sciences	[ add ]
Behavioral/Emotional Disturbances	[ add ]
Behavioral/Social Sciences	[ add ]
Biology/Psychology	[ add ]
Business Administration/Behavioral Science	[ add ]
Business Psychology	[ add ]
Community Psychology	[ add ]
Computer Science/Psychology	[ add ]
Education/Psychology	[ add ]
General/Experimental Psychology	[ add ]
Health Psychology	[ add ]
Human Learning/Development	[ add ]
Human Relations	[ add ]
Human Relations/Business	[ add ]
Industrial Organizational Psychology	[ add ]
Industrial Psychology	[ add ]
Industrial Relations	[ add ]
Industrial/Labor Relations	[ add ]
Industrial/Organizational Psychology	[ add ]
Labor/Industrial Relations	[ add ]
Management/Psychology/Management Science	[ add ]
Organization Change	[ add ]
Philosophy/Psychology	[ add ]
Psychology	[ add ]
Psychology for Business	[ add ]
Psychology/Biology	[ add ]
Psychology/Clinical Practice	[ add ]
Psychology/Education	[ add ]
Psychology/Human Services	[ add ]
Psychology/Personnel/Human Resources Management	[ add ]
Psychology/Physical Therapy	[ add ]
Psychology/Religion	[ add ]
Psychology/Research	[ add ]
Psychology/Sociology	[ add ]
Psychology/Sociology/Anthropology	[ add ]
Psychology/Special Education	[ add ]
Social Psychology	[ add ]
Social Relations	[ add ]
Social/Organizational Psychology	[ add ]
Sociology/Human Relations	[ add ]
Sociology/Psychology	[ add ]
Sociology/Social Psychology	[ add ]
Spanish/Psychology	[ add ]
Theology/Psychology	[ add ]

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