Syllabus
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Course Code: PSY303(E) Course Name: Industrial-Organizational Psychology (i) |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Introduction: Nature, historical background, fields, and contemporary challenges. Behavior in organizations: Consistency vs. individual differences; classical, contingency, and X-Y theory. | |
| 2 | Job analysis: Objectives, methods; Job evaluation: Importance, methods. Personnel selection: Setting personnel specifications and criteria, methods of assessment. Personnel training: Principles, types, methods, evaluation of training effectiveness. |
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| 3 | Job and work environment: Human factors in job design, job enrichment; work environment, Hawthorne studies. Accidents and safety. Human performance: Time and motion studies, principles of performance, performance evaluation and appraisal. |
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| 4 | Work related attitudes: Job satisfaction- antecedents and consequences; organisational commitment- types, antecedents and consequences; burnout, turnover and absenteeism. Work motivation: Basic concepts, motivational practices and incentives, Theories- Two-factor, ERG, Equity. | |
