Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Research and Practice
ISBN: 9788126558599
464 pages
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Description
Unlike any other book of its kind, Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Research and Practice provides an extensive and clear overview of the field, without overwhelming today’s I/O Psychology student. Author Paul Spector provides readers with (1) cutting edge content and includes new and emerging topics, such as occupational health and safety and (2) a global perspective of the field. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Research and Practice, 6th Edition is available in alternate versions (eBooks and custom) for professors and students.
Part I: Introduction.
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Research Methods in I/O Psychology.
- Research Questions.
- Important Research Design Concepts.
- Variables.
- Research Setting.
- Generalizability.
- Control.
- Random Assignment and Random Selection.
- Confounding.
- Research Designs.
- The Experiment.
- Survey Designs.
- Observational Designs.
- Measurement.
- Classical Measurement Theory.
- Reliability.
- Validity.
- Statistics.
- Descriptive Statistics.
- Inferential Statistics.
- Meta-Analysis.
- Mediator and Moderator Variables.
- Ethics of Research.
- Chapter Summary.
- Learning by Doing.
Part II: Assessment of Jobs