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Syllabus for 830:373 Personnel and Industrial Psychology
Spring 2008
Dr. Margaret Ingate
Livingston Classroom Building, Room 102 TTh5, 3:20 – 4:40 pm
313 Tillett Hall, Livingston
Office Hours: Tuesday 10 AM – 12N
Email:
TA: Choon-Kyu Lee email:
Required text: Muchinsky, Psychology Applied to Work, Eighth Edition, 2006
Recommended reading: TIP (at siop.org), The Wall Street Journal, particularly Hymowitz's column "In the Lead"
Course objectives: Students will acquire knowledge of the application of psychology to the world of work. This will include history and research methods, measurement theory as applied to assessment of personal characteristics and work performance, the social and legal contexts of personnel decision making, training, performance management, motivation and job satisfaction, team and organizational functioning, organizational attitudes and behavior, leadership, and labor-management relations.
Grading will be based on two exams, student participation in class, weekly on-line quizzes, a term paper, and a collaborative project.
Two Sakai sites will be used for the course: one for posting of course information and assessments, and one for student collaboration.
Students are expected to have all electronic devices, including laptop computers, turned OFF during class, except when participating in group work.
If you require accommodations for testing, please provide documentation from the Office of Disability Services at the beginning of the semester. If you become seriously ill, or experience personal or family difficulties that interfere with your academic work, involve your dean at the earliest possible point. I will not make determinations about the severity of your illness or the gravity of other problems: that is up to your dean.
If you need to maintain a particular average to graduate, to keep a scholarship, or to enhance your chances of admission to graduate or professional school, attend class regularly, keep up with the reading, review your notes, complete assessments on time and contact me or the TA when you have any difficulty. I do not change grades, unless I or the TA have made a computational mistake.
I will write letters of recommendation for students who receive grades of “B+” or “A.” However, the letters of recommendation that are given the most weight by admissions committees are those from professors with whom you have had an extended relationship. Professors with whom you have done research are in the best position to write recommendations that can compensate for less than stellar GPAs or GREs.
This syllabus is subject to change.
Week / Chapter / Assignments
January 22, 24 / Chapter 1, Chapter 2
Historical Background
Research Methods in Industrial / Organizational Psychology
Jan 29, 31 / Chapter 3: Criteria Standards for Decision Making
Employment Law
February 5, 7 / Chapter 4: Predictors, Psychological Assessments
Assignments to Project Teams
Feb 12, 14 / Chapter 5: Personnel Decisions
Feb 19, 21 / Chapter 6: Organizational Learning
Feb 26, 28 / Chapter 7: Performance Management
Mid-term Exam Thursday, Feb 28, Chapters 1 – 7 + Lecture
March 4, 6 / Chapter 8: Organizations and Organizational Change
March 11, 13 / Chapter 9: Teams and Teamwork
March 18, 20 / Spring Break!
March 25, 27 / Chapter 10: Organizational Attitudes and Behavior
April 1, 3 / Chapter 11: Occupational Health
April 8, 10 / Chapter 12: Work Motivation
April 15, 17 / Chapter 13: Leadership
April 22, 24 / Chapter 14: Union Management Relations
Group Presentations
April 29, May 1 / Group Presentations, Papers Due
May 5 / Late papers last deadline, with 15 point reduction
May 9 / Final Exam, Friday, May 9
Grading – 600 Points Available
Exams 200
Participation 100
Quiz Average 100
Paper 100
Group Project 100
Grading Standards
A 540 and above
B 480 to 539
C 420 to 479
D 300 to 419, if all work is completed
F < 300, or failure to complete any component of the required assessments
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