Industrial Psychology BPS103

 

CONTENT:  

There are ten lessons in this course, as follows:

• 1. Introduction
• Free Will versus Determinism, Developmental and Interactive Expressions of Behaviour, NATURE versus NURTURE, Influence of Environment on Learning Behaviour, Modelling and Conformity, Conditioning involves Certain Environmental Factors which Encourage Learning to Take Place, Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement & Punishment
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• 2. Understanding the Employees Thinking
• Sensation and perception, thinking and day dreaming, the Gestalt approach, unconscious and conscious psychic elements. explaining behaviour, knowledge of brain processes,  personal interpretation of a given situation, instinct.
• Terminology including: Mating, Curiosity, Maternal, Acquiring, Repulsion, Constructiveness, Rivalry, Laughter, Fighting, Walking, Swallowing, Play, Imitation, Sleep, Modesty, Domineering, Religion, Self Asserting, Sneezing, Thirst, Cleanliness, Workmanship, Parenting, Food seeking, Flight, Collecting, Sympathy.
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• 3. Personality & Temperament
• Mature & immature temperaments (eg. Sanguine, Melancholic, Choleric, Phlegmatic), emotional types, fear, intelligence, knowledge, deviation, etc
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• 4. Psychological Testing
• The Application Form; Psychological Test; The Interview; Intelligence Tests; Laws of Learning; Devising Tests; Selecting Appropriate Tests.
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• 5. Management & Managers
• Qualities of Managers, Understanding morale, discipline, training, etc
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• 6. The Work Environment
• Noise, Space, Light, Temperature, Speed of Work, etc. Accidents, Breakages, Fatigue etc.
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• 7. Motivation and Incentives
• Maslows model of self actualisation,  Security, Money, Ambition, Companionship, Social reinforcement, Labour wastage, etc
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• 8.  Recruitment
• Ways of seeking applicants, types of interview, ways of selecting staff.
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• 9. Social Considerations
• Group Behaviour, Conformity, Industrial Groups, THE HAWTHORNE EFFECT
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• 10. Abnormalities and Disorders
• Psychosis Neurosis Personality Disorders, Variance, Partial Disability (eg. arm.leg injuries; epilepsy, digestive disorders etc), The Psycho Neurotic
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• Aims

• Discuss basic concepts  that may be relevant to understanding industrial psychology.
• Identify similarities and differences that occur in the way different employees perceive their workplace.
• Discuss the effect of personality and temperament upon industrial psychology.
• Identify applications for psychological testing in industrial management.
• Discuss the psychology of management
• Identify ways that the work environment might impact upon the psychology of people in a workplace
• Explain how motivation influences work productivity.
• Discuss the application of psychology to recruitment.
• Explain the impact of social factors upon work productivity.
• Discuss the significance of psychological disorders or abnormalities in a workplace.

Some Sample Notes

When a psychologist studies a patient, he does not consider present factors, such as environment alone. He must also take account of his patient's early environment and its effects on the present outlook of the patient.

Such is also the case in Industrial psychology. If we wish to discover such things as "What makes a worker accident prone?" "Why is he a low producer?" and "Why does he cause so much wastage?" Then we must study the worker against his working background, both past and present.

The most important aspect is "accidents and their cause". This is extremely important, because there are serious production losses as well as damage and suffering to the injured.

Where accidents are a common occurrence, over a period of time there is a tendency for the work force to regard accidents as inevitable. This is a fatalistic attitude which must be overcome by the management. This can only be done by teaching the correct safety measures and insisting that they be carried out. In South Africa there is an act - The machinery and Occupational Safety Act, which was enacted in 1983. This act provides for safety representatives in each working place, safety committees and safety officers. it is beyond the scope of this course to go into detail regarding this act, because this falls within the realm of Labour Relations. The student, would however, be well advised to obtain a copy of this act from the Government Stationer.

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Multicultural Awareness http://www.acs.edu.au/courses/Multi-Cultural-Awareness-369.aspx

Social Psychology http://www.acs.edu.au/courses/Social-Psychology-I-345.aspx

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The length of work periods is a deciding factor with regard to accidents. It has been shown in many experiments both in Europeand the United States of America that as a shift continues fatigue continues to increase. The optimum period for work of a monotonous nature is two hours. After such a length of time a rest period of a few minutes should be allowed. Where concentrated work is required to be carried out for a period of four hours or more it has been proved by experiment and observation that most accidents occur towards the middle and end of the work period, when both mental and physical fatigue begin to take their toll. It has been proved that music played during the work period can have a soothing effect and actually eliminate fatigue and boredom. The music should, however, be provided with a level diffusion so that one part of the workroom is not subjected to a cacophony of sound while workers in others parts of the workroom are unconsciously straining their ears to catch the theme.This course helps develop knowledge and skills for anyone involved in workplace situations, such as managers, supervisors, small business owners, union representatives, etc. Find out more about this and other topics relating to industrial psychology by taking this course.

By understanding the thought processes that take place in the minds of people at work, a manager or supervisor can develop empathy with their staff, and apply this empathy to the way they manage the workplace.

Approximate duration: 100 hours

Cost: $693.00 inc GST

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