PSYC 8001AEF
PSYC 8001AEF |
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Psychology for Work I: Assessment, Selection and Development |
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Course Coordinator:
Dr Tess Pak, BA (CUHK); PCPsych, MPhil, PhD (HKU); CPsychol (BPS); Registered industrial-organizational psychologist (DIOP, HKPS)
Aims
PSYC 8001AEF aims to develop students' understanding of psychological approach to essential personnel strategies including assessment, selection and staff development. Students would acquire a comprehensive knowledge of the principles, theories and recent research findings in those areas of work psychology to benefit human resources management.
Contents
Fundamentals of industrial psychology
i. Introduction to applied psychology for workplace
ii. Research methods and designs
Personnel selection
iii. Conceptual issues in staffing decisions
iv. Personnel selection in practice
Personnel assessment
v. Individual differences and assessment
vi. Assessment in practice
vii. Performance measurement and management
Personnel training and development
viii. Foundations of training and learning
ix. Training designs and methods
Learning support
Lectures and interactive discussion. Weekly lectures of total 26 hours are to achieve the learning outcomes of this one-semester course. Whilst lectures can impart the perspectives, concepts, theories and new research findings systematically to the students, students are encouraged to participate actively in class discussion to consolidate and critically evaluate the materials.
Online Learning Environment (OLE). OLE supports the students' learning via its resourceful library of lecture notes, supplementary readings and hyperlinks to useful websites. The Discussion Board therein also facilitates the communication among students and instructors about their ideas, reflections, difficulties and solutions.
Assessment
Course assessment is made by continuous assessment (50%) and final examination (50%). Students are required to submit assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).
Set book(s)
Levy, P. E. (2020). Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Understanding the Workplace (6th ed.). New York: Worth Publishers. (E-Book available at HKMU Library)
