Organizational psychology is the scientific study of workplace issues using psychological methods and principles. It aims to apply theories of human behavior and development to address challenges in talent management, coaching, assessment, selection, training, organizational development, and performance. The field has subdivisions including industrial/personnel psychology focusing on HR functions and organizational psychology examining topics like motivation, leadership, and organizational change. Organizational psychologists work in academia as professors and researchers or as practitioners in consulting, private, and public sector roles where they conduct analyses and develop interventions to improve workplace outcomes. Early contributors to the field included Walter Dill Scott, Hugo Munsterberg, and Frederick Taylor who helped establish the application of psychology principles to issues of work motivation and

1. Organizational Psychology
Presented To: Sir Asghar
Presented By: Shahzaib Rehman
Roll No: 166
DEPARTMENT OF CCOMMERCE

2. Organizational Psychology

3. What is Organization?
Organization is a group of people
who work interdependently
towards some purpose. The process
of organizing, planning, leading and
controlling resources within an
entity with the overall aim of
achieving its objectives.

4. The Psychology
 Industrial organizational psychology is the scientific study of the work
place.
 Methods of psychology are applied to issues of critical relevance to
business, including:
i. Talent Management,
ii. Coaching,
iii. Assessment,
iv. Selection,
v. Training,
vi. Organizational Development,
vii. Performance,
viii. Work-life Balance.

5. What is Organizational Psychology?
Usage of psychological principles and theories to the workplace.
OR
Study of how people get along at work and are able to perform effectively.
Sub-Divisions within Organizational Psychology
 Industrial and Personnel psychology:
i. HR Stuff: Recruitment, job analysis, selection, training, performance
appraisal, compensation, employment law.
ii. KSAOs: Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and other aspects related to job
performance

6. Sub-Divisions of Organizational Psychology?
 Organizational Psychology
i. Micro: motivation, leadership, teams, worker attitudes, safety & well-
being, work-family.
ii. Macro: organizational theory, culture, organizational development
& change.
 Human factors & ergonomics:
i. Modifying equipment
ii. Environmental Changes
iii. Tofit workers needs

7. 36%
29%
7%
21%
8% Universities
Consulting Firms
Government
Private
Companies

8. A concentrated effort by managers and their advisors to become more
sensitive to the needs of employees or to treat them in a more humanistic
manner, i.e. social factors boost worker morale.

9. • Hawthorne Studies
• Threat of Unionization
Philosophy of Humanism
Human Relations
Movement
Hawthorne
Studies
Threat of
Unionization
Philosophy of
Industrial
Humanism

10. Who are Organizational Psychologists?
Organizational Psychologist can be classified in two general groups:
 Academics:
1. Professors in research- and teaching-
2. Oriented universities and colleges. Example in psychology, management,
industrial relations, quantitative sciences, occupational health & safety.
3. Their major activities;teaching courses, conducting research, writing and
presenting research papers, attending conferences, mentoring students,
performing university and professional service.

11. Who are Organizational Psychologists?
 Practitioners:
1. HR and organizational specialists in consulting, private, and
public organizations
2. Their major activities;Job analysis, diagnosis, surveying
employees, designing and administering selection & performance
appraisal systems, training, developing psychological tests,
implementing and evaluating OD & change, data analysis

12.  Walter Dill Scott (American Psychologist)
 Hugo Munsterberg (German)
 Frederick Taylor (American Engineer)

13. 1. First to apply the principles of psychology to motivation and productivity
in the workplace.
2. Would later become instrumental in the application of personnel
procedures within the army during World War I.
3. He boosted industrial psychology

14. Father of industrial psychology
1.Applied psychological method to practical industrial problems.
2. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency (1913)
View of I/O psychology:
1.People need to fit the organization -- training!
2.Applied behavioral sciences should help organizations to shape people to
serve as replacement parts for organizational machines. Mechanistic.

15. Principles of Scientific Management (1911)
1. Management and workers should cooperatively share responsibility
for the design and conduct of work.
E.g.: Showed that workers who handle heavy iron ingots were more
productive when allowed work rests.
2. Training when to work and when to rest raised productivity from 12.5 to
47.0 tons moved per day.
3. Company increase efficiency. Costs dropped from 9.2 to 3.9 cents per
ton.