Industrial and Organizational Psychology

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: Third-year standing and 12 credits from PSYC 1001, 1011, and PSYC at the 2000 level; or third-year standing and COMM 2311; or permission of the Department This course provides information about Industrial and Organizational Psychology (I/O psychology), which studies human behaviour in the workplace using the science-practitioner model. Topics include the appropriate use of people or human resources such as job analysis, performance appraisal, selection, placement, understanding employee behaviour and enhancing the well-being of the employees such as job attitudes, counterproductive work behaviour, health, and workplace stress. [Note 1: This course is cross-listed with PSYC 3371 and may therefore count as three credits in either discipline.] (Format: Lecture 3 hours) (Exclusion: PSYC 3991 Industrial/Organizational Psychology)