Assignment: Professional Psychology

Assignment: Professional Psychology

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Provide an overview of the Industrial/Organizational subfield of Psychology. Discuss specific work tasks that an I/O professional may be involved in. Based on the psychological theories that have been explored in this course, choose one theory and demonstrate how that theory may be applied in the workplace by an I/O professional.(The theory I’ve chose is cognative theory)

After reading the two articles and gaining an understanding of the Industrial/Organizational subfield, go to the Library and chose a peer-reviewed article related to the I/O field. Read, reflect and evaluate the article. Provide an overview of the article in your discussion response. Share a hypothetical situation in a workplace setting where the information from the article would be supported.>>>>>(review attachment below for this part of discussion

Creativity Through Applying Ideas From Fields Other Than One’s Own: Transferring Knowledge From Social Psychology to Industrial/Organizational Psychology *

Abstract Subfields of psychology can be arguably characterized as islands of unconnected knowledge. The underlying theme of this paper is that these subfields have much to gain by looking at and studying each other’s respective literature. This paper explains how the field of industrial/organiza- tional (I/O) psychology has benefited from theory and research in social psychology, and suggests ways it can ben- efit even more so. Specifically, moral development, the group-serving bias, as well as inducing feelings of hypocrisy so as to foster subsequent behaviour change are discussed. Their potential for leading to further insight into existing problems, refining existing theories, and for raising new questions in I/O psychology is described.

Psychology is a behavioural science whose literature has grown rapidly. However, psychology has often failed to transfer knowledge across its subfields. Scientists and practitioners within the subfields fre- quently appear ignorant of ways they can benefit from cross-subfield research. These subfields, whether bio- logical, clinical, educational, social, or industrial, con- tain interdependent ideas that should be shared in order to advance psychology for all.

Since the authors are researchers of organizational behaviour, this paper provides insights as to how trans- ferring knowledge from social psychology has already enriched the science and practice of I/O psychology. In addition, new ideas as to how I/O psychology can benefit from social psychology are explored.

Benefits of Reading Literature Other than One’s Own The benefits of researching literature other than one’s

own are at least four-fold. First, sharing concepts among psychology’s subfields allows researchers to extend their work to other areas (i.e., generalization). Second, it enables them to theorize and contextualize their research so as to connect their findings within larger conversations. Research designs often yield rela- tively sterile pieces of data that contribute little to knowledge and understanding when they are confined to narrow disciplines, or kept within the borders of a specific field (e.g., Locker, 1994; Sternberg & Grigorenko, 2001). Third, it helps researchers to be constructively critical of both the fields from which they draw information and of that in which they work. It can lead to proposals for using alternative method- ologies in a particular program of research. Fourth, it enables researchers to raise questions not previously considered. Sharing knowledge across subfields may even lead researchers who investigate the same phe- nomenon, but who are in different areas of psycholo- gy, and hence have different perspectives and instru- ments, to interact with one another in ways that facili- tate both knowledge creation and knowledge applica- tion.