Key Terms
Group of people within an organization or company given a specific task to achieve together.
What is a work team?
Works to improve the conditions of individuals who have faced serious disaster or who are apart of an underserved population.
What is Humanitarian Work Psychology?
Career advancement opportunity
What is a promotion?
Breaking down the elements of a task.
What is task analysis?
The area of I-O psychology that measures job satisfaction.
What is organizational psychology?
Training employees about cultural differences with the goal of improving teamwork.
What is diversity training?
Works with the relationships that employees develop with their organizations and vice versa.
Extra work requirements, insecurity of position
What are work demands?
Breaking down the elements of a cognitive task.
What is cognitive task analysis?
The strongest predictive factor of overall job satisfaction.
Increase of performance of individuals who are noticed, watched, and paid attention to by researchers or supervisors.
What is the Hawthorne effect?
Concerned with the overall well-being of both employees and organizations.
Professional relations or adequacy
What are coworkers?
Includes human software interactions in complex automated systems.
What is cognitive engineering?
The name for what occurs when a supervisor offers a work-related reward in exchange for a sexual favor.
What is quid pro quo?
Evaluation of an employee's success or lack of success at performing the duties of the job.
What is performance appraisal?
Specializes and focuses on the retention of employees and hiring practices.
What is Industrial Psychology?
Variety, challenge, role clarity
What is work content?
The study and practice of designing products, systems, or processes.
What is product design?
The organization responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant.
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?
Assumes workers are inherently lazy and unproductive; managers must have control and use punishments.
What is Theory X?
Research advances and changes in technology in an effort to improve technology use by consumers.
What is Human Factors and Engineering?
Individual responsibility, control over decisions
Includes vigilance and monitoring, recognizing signals in noise, mental resources, and divided attention.
What is attention?
An example or strategy of Theory X management.
What is keystroke monitoring?