Business Psychology


Course Outline: Fundamentals: Definition of Psychology, Subfields of Psychology, Major Perspectives of Psychology, Psychology in Business; Job Analysis: Job-oriented Approach, Person-oriented Approach, Purposes of Job Analysis, Methods of Job Analysis, Job Evaluation; Assessment Methods for Selection and Placement: Psychological Tests: Ability Test, Personality Test, Intelligence Test, Vocational Interest Test; Training and Development: Training Need Analysis, Training Designs, Training Methods, Evaluation of Training; Theories of Employee Motivation: Need Theories, Reinforcement Theory, Expectancy Theory, Goal Setting Theory; Job Attitude and Emotion: Nature of Job Satisfaction, Assessment of Job Satisfaction, Antecedents of Job Satisfaction, Potential Effects of Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Emotion at work; Productive and Counterproductive Employee Behavior: Productive Behavior, Job Performance; Counterproductive Behavior, Withdrawal, Aggression, Mistreatment, Sabotage, and Theft; Occupational Health Psychology: Occupational Health and Safety, Work Schedules, Occupational Stress, Work-Family Conflict, Burnout, Hawthorne Studies; Leadership: Approaches to the Understanding of Leadership Trait Approach, Leader Behavior Approach, Contingency Theory, Path-Goal Theory, Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory, Transformational Leadership Theory; Organizational Development and Theory: Organizational Development Employee Acceptance of Change, Management by Objectives, Survey Feedback, Team Building, T-Group; Effectiveness of Organizational Development: Organizational Theories, Bureaucracy, Theory X and Theory Y, Open System Theory, Socio-technical System Theory.