Organisational psychology

Question 1

newcomer socialisation

Answer 1

integration of new employers into workplace influences working performance, inducted.

Question 2

Organisational psychologist role

Answer 2

management of workers in organisation to work efficiently

Question 3

in job recruitment/ employee selection approaches:

Answer 3

𝓟𝓻𝓮𝓭𝓲𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓼𝓽 𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓿𝓮 - best suited person to fit job - skills, IQ

𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓼𝓽 𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓿𝓮 - person compatibility with social organisational culture of company - theft, loyalty etc

Question 4

qualities of selection techniques:

Answer 4

• reliable: reliable measure for judging desirable traits eg, questionnaire

- predictive validity: judge of future behaviour in workplace eg correlational (coeffiecient tests) "validities", meta analysis - averages of predictive cases, 
structured interview (proven as more predictively valid than unstructured - more biased)

Question 5

General Mental Ability test GMA

Answer 5

psychometric tests testing:

• verbal, numerical, spacial, memory, logical resaosning ability
• is good at predicting job performance, acquisition of job related knowledge - fast/more learning

Question 6

selection approaches

Answer 6

normative approach: choose highest scoring individuals, 4 jobs, select top 4

criterion-based approach: preset threshold - must score above a certain point/ have certain skill level - may not select all 4

Question 7

adverse impact

Answer 7

systematic differences: “adverse impact” causes minority groups to be disadvantaged in performance, therefore never at top to be selected

Question 8

how to overcome adverse impact

Answer 8

• raise score by certain amount, as the trend is same as normal population, to match (bad solution)