Objective of the M.A. Program in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
 

The program prepares students to design, develop, implement, and evaluate psychologically-based human resources interventions in organizations based on the scientist-practitioner model. This program is only 34 hours*.

This is accomplished through rigorous training in the following core/specialty areas: 

Specific course goals:

• Orientation to Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Provides an orientation to the field of Industrial/Organizational Psychology as a profession.
   
• Performance Management: Provides foundations for performance appraisal and the measurement principles therein. This course adopts a macro perspective of performance management.

• Staffing (Personnel Assessment and Selection): Provides an understanding of the fundamental concepts involved in employee selection and decision making procedures.
   
• Training and Development: Establishes the processes of designing, developing, implementing and evaluating training programs with an intention to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of human performance within the workplace.
   
• Leadership and Organizational Change: Provides an overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of leadership in the context of organizational change.
   
• Organizational Psychology: Provides an in-depth analysis of the causes and consequences of work-related behavior with an emphasis on the measurement of these variables.
   
• Personnel Psychology: Provides an overview of various areas within the field of personnel or industrial psychology including extensive utilization of job analysis and exposure to job evaluation.

* APSU has granted approval to take this program online from the Tennessee  Board of   Regents and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.