Psy 6903 Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Instructor: Jorge L. Mendoza

Office: 719 Dale Hall, Psychology

Phone: 325-4568

email: Jmendoza@ou.edu

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Textbooks:

1. Motivation and Leadership at Work (6th Ed.) by Steers, Porter, & Bigley

2. Applied Psychology in Human Resource Management (5th Ed.) by Cascio

Other Useful Textbooks:

Basic Course Description: This course is a survey of research, theories, and practices of industrial/Organizational psychology. Many topics important to I/O psychology will be covered including organizational culture, selection, criteria development, testing, job analysis, performance appraisals, work teams, quality and productivity, motivation, job satisfaction, and leadership.

Reasonable Accommodations Any student who has a disability that may prevent him or her from fully displaying his or her abilities in this course should contact me as soon as possible to discuss accommodations necessary to ensure full participation and facilitate your educational opportunities.

Quotes for the Day:

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account; and should I labour with you upon my own account, in expectation of a return, I know I should be disappointed, and that I should in vain depend upon your gratitude. Here then I leave you to labour alone; You treat me in the same manner. The seasons change; and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and securityDavid Hume

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Ghandi

Tentative Course Outline

Organizations (from Management Mistakes and Successes, by R. Hartley)

Organizational Culture (pp. 455-468, & 355-382 )

Motivation at Work (Theories, issues, and applications, Chap 2 & 8 )

Reward Systems (Chap 7)

Tullar, W. (1998) Compensation consequences of reengineering. JAP, 83, 6, 975-980

Personnel Decisions: (Cascio, Chaps 2-8, 12 & 13)

Productivity and Quality

Goetsch & Davis (1997) Introduction to total quality( 2nd Ed.) Prentice Hall, Chap 10.

Schneider, W. E. (1995) Productivity improvement through cultural focus. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research. 47, 1, 3-27.

March, T. (1998) Profiting from Patience: TQM Pays Off. Quality Digest

Leadership (Chaps 3 & 9)

Some Additional References

Leadership

Organizational Models

Total Quality Management

Organizational Change

1. Discontinuous Change: Leading organizational transformation by Nadler, Shaw, Walton, and Associates.

Teams

1. Teamwork: what must go right / what can go wrong by Larson and LaFasto

Selection

Validity Generalization

1. Distributions of correlation coefficients by Thomas

Personnel Law