Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Study lessons

1. 1

   Foundations and History of I/O Psychology

   How Taylor's scientific management, the Hawthorne studies, and wartime testing built the industrial and organizational split the RPm board still tests today.

   15 min
2. 2

   Job Analysis and Competency Modeling

   How I-O psychologists dissect a job into tasks and KSAOs with tools like the PAQ and O*NET, then judge whether a performance criterion truly captures success or only approximates it.

   15 min
3. 3

   Recruitment and Selection

   How organizations attract applicants honestly, screen them through interviews, work samples, and assessment centers, and combine scores into a defensible hire decision.

   15 min
4. 4

   Testing, Utility, and Fairness in Selection

   Why cognitive ability beats most hiring tests, how Taylor-Russell tables turn validity into pesos saved, and when the four-fifths rule signals discrimination.

   15 min
5. 5

   Training and Development

   How organizations diagnose training needs, apply learning and transfer principles, choose among training methods, and evaluate results using Kirkpatrick's four levels.

   15 min
6. 6

   Performance Appraisal

   How the board tests graphic scales, BARS, MBO, and 360-degree feedback against six classic rating errors, from halo to similar-to-me bias.

   15 min
7. 7

   Work Motivation

   Why pay alone rarely keeps employees engaged, unpacked through Maslow, Herzberg, McClelland, Vroom, Adams, Locke, and Hackman and Oldham's job characteristics model.

   15 min
8. 8

   Job Attitudes and Satisfaction

   How the board tests the JDI, the MSQ, the surprisingly weak satisfaction-performance link, Meyer and Allen's three commitments, OCB, CWB, and withdrawal.

   15 min
9. 9

   Leadership

   Traces leadership theory from Stogdill's traits through Ohio State/Michigan behaviors, Fiedler through Vroom-Yetton models, LMX, and transformational, transactional, and servant leadership.

   15 min
10. 10

    Groups, Teams, and Communication

    How groups form, why they sometimes think and work worse together than alone, and which structured techniques and communication networks fix that, mapped to Tuckman, Janis, and Osborn.

    15 min
11. 11

    Organizational Culture, Climate, and Development

    How Schein's layered model of culture, Lewin's unfreeze-change-refreeze cycle, and OD interventions turn an organization's invisible assumptions into changeable practice.

    15 min
12. 12

    Work Stress and Occupational Health

    How role conflict, the demand-control model, and Maslach's burnout dimensions explain workplace strain, and how RA 11058 and the Labor Code govern Philippine OSH practice.

    15 min

Section practice test

33 test sets covering the whole Industrial-Organizational Psychology section, 1320 original questions with explanations. After you finish the lessons above, prove it here. Randomized every run.