Home Study Industrial Psychology Course
GAIN AN INDEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF THE USE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN WORK AND INDUSTRY.
Industrial Psychology is now a major field. More and more companies make use of psychologists to ensure that their staff are motivated, that the workplace is suitable for optimum performance and so on. Learn about the way people think in the workplace. This course is also suitable for people who are interested in developing their management skills - become a better manager. Learn more about staff and how to get the best out of them. Psychometric testing, intelligence testing and its use within the work place. This course also helps develop knowledge and skills for anyone involved in workplace situations, such as managers, supervisors, small business owners, union representatives, etc.
Duration : 100 hours
COURSE STRUCTURE
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
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.
3. Personality & Temperament
Mature & immature temperaments (eg. Sanguine, Melancholic, Choleric, Phlegmatic), emotional types, fear, intelligence, knowledge, deviation, etc
4. Psychological Testing
The Application Form; Psychological Test; The Interview; Intelligence Tests; Laws of Learning; Devising Tests; Selecting Appropriate Tests.
5. Management & Managers
Qualities of Managers, Understanding morale, discipline, training, etc
6. The Work Environment
Noise, Space, Light, Temperature, Speed of Work, etc. Accidents, Breakages, Fatigue etc.
7. Motivation and Incentives
Maslows model of self actualisation, Security, Money, Ambition, Companionship, Social reinforcement, Labour wastage, etc
8. Recruitment
Ways of seeking applicants, types of interview, ways of selecting staff.
9. Social Considerations
Group Behaviour, Conformity, Industrial Groups, The Hawthorne Effect
10. Abnormalities and Disorders
Psychosis Neurosis Personality Disorders, Variance, Partial Disability (eg. arm.leg injuries; epilepsy, digestive disorders etc), The Psycho Neurotic What qualification will I achieve for completing this course?
This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study.
If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.
If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.
If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments.
There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.
Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.
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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
Examples of Assignment Questions
Discuss the following questions with one or two friends, and make notes of the answers.
Discuss the environmental circumstances that you feel have affected your life. Consider to what extent are mental characteristics inherited?
Industrial Psychology is a diverse area. Psychologists may study the work place, motivating staff, staff recruitment, management skills, improving staff performance and skills. The following are some example notes from the Course –
“THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
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.” (taken from the Industrial Psychology course)
If you are interested in this course, but would like to know a bit more about psychology, why not consider our Introduction to Psychology course - http://www.acsedu.co.uk/Courses/Psychology/INTRODUCTION-TO-PSYCHOLOGY-BPS101-359.aspx
Or have a look at our bookshop for a wide range of books in psychology -
http://www.acsbookshop.com/books_productcategory.aspx?id=14
For more information on the range of careers available in psychology, have a look at - http://www.thecareersguide.com/articles.aspx?category=14
We have some interesting articles on psychology and counseling at - http://www.acs.edu.au/psychol/
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Distance Learning Industrial Psychology Course
"Learn how psychology can be useful in the workplace."
Understand the principles and theories of industrial psychology.
Learn how to get the best from staff.
Understand psychometric testing and their uses in the workplace.
A suitable course for managers, recruitment staff, supervisors, owners of small businesses and anyone interested in industrial psychology.
