Textbook needed- Psychology & work an introduction to industrial and organizational psychology second edition…Modules 1-3 Assignment
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7
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Module 1 Assignment
Topic: Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Chapter 1
Consider the career that you are planning to pursue after you finish college or graduate school. How do you think that technological advances may change this job over the course of your career?
Examine the SIOP website. After exploring to see what is offered, prepare a paragraph or two describing what interests you from the website.
What are some of the challenges of balancing research with practice?
Which of the current issues identified in the chapter do you think will have the greatest impact during your career? Please identify your career field.
Module 2 Assignment
Topic: Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Research Methods
Chapter 2
Distinguish between dependent and independent variables. Provide an example.
Which of the current issues identified in the chapter do you think will have the greatest impact during your career? What kinds of research questions could I/O psychologists carry out to address these changes and to support workers through similar issues?
SCENARIO: You are the human resource director for a company of 10,000 employees specializing in the production of swimming products. Due to the increased complexity of the manufacturing process, you are interested in improving the basic skills (e.g., math, reading, writing) of your employees. Two methods look promising—one involving web-based training and the other involving the use of workbooks. The web-based approach would cost about $600,000 and the workbooks about $300,000. Design a study to help you make a decision. Describe your sample and your research method. How would you arrive at a conclusion about what to do?
Module 3 Assignment
Topic: Job Analysis, Personnel Selection: Tests and Other Selection Procedures, and Strategic Issues in the Deployment of Selection Systems
Chapters 3, 6 and 7
Check out the O*NET site at http://www. onetonline.org/. Look up two occupations of personal interest. Discuss the skills, tasks, and education required for the occupations.
What social media platforms do you think have the best-recruiting success? Go to your favorite social media platform and report back any positions that you see trending.
You’re tasked with developing an interview protocol for the job of a customer service representative. What type of interview would you use? How would you develop the questions? Provide at least five interview questions.
Consider the options available to employers for recruiting job applicants. Consider the job of a sales associate for a large retailer versus an engineer for a high-tech maker of computer hardware. Describe the options that are best for recruiting to fill these two positions. Explain the reasoning behind your answers.
Discuss some of the legal issues in hiring.
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