Organizational Psychology
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Organizational Psychologist
Arthur Cunhs
PSY 830-Principles of Organizational Psychology
Dr. Dave Hale
September 13, 2013
Organizational Psychologist
The organizational psychologist specializes in the field of psychology which he or she applies to an organization to increase job effectiveness. Further, the training of organizational psychologist consist of either a masters or a doctoral degree. The role of an organizational psychologist is to improve employee’s performance and increase job satisfaction. In addition, the role of the organizational psychologist will change due to different psychological methodologies and organizational theories. Finally, the role of an organizational psychologist is to enhance employee efficiency within an organizational.
Furthermore, the purpose of the organizational psychologist is to develop strategies that can increase employee performance. Unfortunately, the lack of proper organizational leadership in a company may contribute to insufficient levels of employee production. In an article by Fisher (1997) “Among the variety of reasons for the failure of re-engineered processes, one of the most serious is not providing a human-performance system to support each and every performer in the organization. The human-performance implications of process management are important” (p.21). Thus, the organizational psychologist is beneficial in increasing the knowledge, skills, and abilities of an organization.
In addition, the organizational psychologist practices the field of psychology applied within an organizational structure. The responsibilities of an organizational psychologist are to examine companies through quantitative or qualitative scientific research. Also, the organizational psychologist applies the scientific analysis of organizations to improve organizational environments. Next, the understanding of how employees feel about their job positions can develop better employee and management relations. The needs of the consumer within the organization have to be monitored, and a method has to be developed to attain organizational goals. Still, management can learn effective leadership through organizational psychological techniques regarding the retention of workers. Organizations can save money when they can retain their employees. It can be costly to rehire new employees and teach them new skills. Thus, general managers can cut company cost by maintaining the same workers. In reference to, Geberevbie (2008) “any organization that fails to put in place adequate employee retention strategies is not likely to retain competent and motivated workforce in its employment and hence experience frequent labour turnover and poor organizational performance” (p.148). The organizational psychologist enhances the wellbeing of workers, job satisfaction, and company safety. Further, the organizational psychologist develops research on employee’s attitudes and...