Psychology in the Workplace

This course provides a critical examination of people in the workplace. It is designed to be a survey course and covers a wide range of traditional and contemporary topics in the field of industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology. This course explores topics such as employee attitudes, personnel selection, placement, training, work motivation, job satisfaction, leadership, teamwork, and work-family balance. This course focuses both on understanding the psychological basis of work behavior and on the organizational practices used to create a good fit between people’s characteristics and work’s demands.