IndustrialOrganizational Psychology The ScientistPractitioner Model Scientist Practitioner The

Industrial/Organizational Psychology

The Scientist-Practitioner Model Scientist Practitioner

The “Founding Fathers” w 1) Walter Dill Scott w 2) Frederick W. Taylor w 3) Hugo Munsterberg

World War I (1917 -1918) w Robert Yerkes w Army Alpha and Army Beta group intelligence tests w 1917 - Journal of Applied Psychology w Development and acceptance of profession

Between the Wars (1919 -1940) w 1921 - 1 st Ph. D. in Industrial psychology w 1921 - Psychological Corporation- James Cattell w 1924 - Hawthorne studies began and results were published in 1939

World War II (1941 -1945) w w w Use of employee selection and placement for army Army General Classification Test (AGCT) Training of individuals Beginning of engineering psychology 1945 - Society for Industrial Psychology established Refinement of profession

Government Intervention (1964 -Present) w 1) perform high quality work; and 2) meet government scrutiny and evaluation w civil rights movement w Equal Pay Act, Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act w Project A- the ASVAB test for military

Government Intervention (1964 - Present) w 1973 - Division 14 of the APA is now Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) w Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Civil Rights Act of 1991

I/O psychologists must work within CERTAIN CONSTRAINTS. . . Legal constraints Social Constraints Political constraints Economic constraints

Major Influences Diversity Generation X and Y Internationalism Flexible Alternatives Mergers and Rightsizing Technology