Industrial And Organizational Psychology

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This essay will be looking at industrial and organisational psychology in South Africa with a focus on past, present, and future perspectives and challenges. Industrial and organisational psychology is referred to as the applied distribution of psychology that focuses on human performance that is associated to occupation, organisations, and productivity (Rothmann and Cilliers, 2007). Thus it is the study of the workplace. However, changes in the workplace need to be made to address, combat, and overcome the challenges that the workplace in organisations face today. Industrial and organisational psychology (I/O psychology) is important as work in people’s lives is important. The workplace is where most people spend the majority of their time …show more content…

Hence, industrial and organisational psychology needs to encompass the restrictions of general psychology and therefore they have to work inside the restrictions of psychology as a theme. For industrial and organisational psychology there needs to be a focus on thinking that motivates the psychology of occupation and in organisations such as the meaning of work. The scale of industrial and organisational psychology is growing and the proof is seen in the changing roles or new roles in the workplace. The new challenges that industrial and organisational psychology face needs constant training of the industrial and organisational psychologists so that the relevance of its functions in theory and practice are maintained (Rothmann and Cilliers, 2007). Organisations are affected by worldwide opposition and changes in the external environment. Thus, they need to regularly reclassify and rearrange themselves so that these changes can be dealt with. This is done so that organisations endure and stay competitive in the rapidly changing business environment (Moalusi, …show more content…

Thus, industrial and organisational psychology as a discipline is more relevant than industrial and organisational psychology as a profession. Moreover it is clear that industrial and organisational psychology as a discipline is valued (Renecle, 2001). The drive towards industrial and organisational psychology is focused on the highlighting the importance of the person region of organisations, implementing an intercreative method, closing the space among the theory and the practice, evaluating organisations managing concepts, and teaching courses to improve the visibility of industrial and organisational psychology. However, the challenge is to shift industrial and organisational psychology to generate new futures throughout unstable periods (Moalusi,

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