HRM 330 Personnel and Industrial Psychology
This course focuses on principles and techniques of personnel and industrial psychology and applications of scientific psychology to business and industrial settings. Topics include: psychology as a science and professional practice issues; employee selection, psychological testing, performance appraisal, and training and development; leadership in organizations; motivation, job satisfaction and job involvement; organizational structure; work conditions, engineering psychology, employee safety and health, and work stress; and consumer psychology. This course is appropriate for general management, business administration and psychology students in addition to human resource management professionals.
Recommended: MGMT 310 Principles of Management or MGMT 320 Organizational Behavior Note: This course is recommended for general management and business administration students in addition to human resource management professionals. Overlap: PSYC 344 Industrial-Organizational Psychology, has the same content as HRM 330, therefore you cannot receive credit for both courses.
Special information
4 Undergraduate credits
Effective August 1, 1998 to present
Meets graduation requirements for
Learning outcomes
General
- Knows the basic principles and techniques in the study of personnel and industrial psychology, including: psychology as a science and professional practice issues; human resource development; organizational psychology; the workplace; engineering psychology; and consumer psychology.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum
Goal 5: History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Employ the methods and data that historians and social and behavioral scientists use to investigate the human condition.
- Examine social institutions and processes across a range of historical periods and cultures.
- Use and critique alternative explanatory systems or theories.
- Develop and communicate alternative explanations or solutions for contemporary social issues.