Industrial/Organizational Applications Workbook for Aamodt’s Industrial/Organizational Psychology: An Applied Approach, 5th

by Aamodt, Michael G.

• ISBN13: 9780495130321
• ISBN10: 049513032X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-07
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Written by Michael Aamodt, this workbook contains exercises on a wide variety of interesting topics including determining pay equity, research design, employee privacy issues, employee recruitment and more.

Table of Contents

Research designs	p. 1
Designing a study	p. 5
Reviewing research articles	p. 6
Critiquing job descriptions	p. 8
Writing a job description	p. 10
Identifying KSAOs	p. 11
The critical incident technique	p. 13
Designing a job evaluation system	p. 19
Determining pay equity	p. 23
Federally protected classes	p. 25
Determining adverse impact	p. 26
Responses to adverse impact	p. 27
Legality of employment practices	p. 28
Sexual harassment	p. 29
Understanding affirmative action	p. 30
Employee privacy issues	p. 31
Testing your legal knowledge	p. 32
Reading help-wanted ads	p. 33
Writing help-wanted ads	p. 34
Point of purchase recruitment	p. 35
Employee recruitment	p. 36
Identifying KSAOs	p. 37
Developing interview questions	p. 38
Scoring interview questions	p. 43
Finding career resources	p. 45
Surviving the employment interview	p. 46
Resume writing	p. 47
Classroom Exercise: Scoring a structured interview	p. 49
Trait approach	p. 54
Cognitive ability	p. 55
Leaderless group discussion	p. 57
Personality inventories	p. 60
Interest inventories	p. 67
Integrity testing	p. 73
Resume evaluation	p. 75
Locating test information	p. 77
Using the utility formula and tables	p. 79
Determining the proportion of correct decisions	p. 81
Using banding to reduce adverse impact	p. 83
360-degree feedback	p. 85
Creating performance dimensions	p. 86
Paired-comparison technique	p. 87
Writing behavioral statements	p. 88
Evaluating employee performance	p. 89
Rating errors	p. 90
Performance appraisal interviews	p. 91
Needs assessment: Task analysis	p. 92
Needs assessment: Person analysis	p. 94
Evaluating training programs: 1	p. 96
Evaluating training programs: 2	p. 98
Focused free-write: Motivation	p. 100
Self-esteem	p. 101
Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation	p. 103
Goal setting	p. 106
Reinforcement hierarchy	p. 107
Expectancy and equity theories	p. 108
Motivation case study	p. 109
Your own motivation theory	p. 110
Focused free-write - Satisfaction	p. 111
Stability of job satisfaction	p. 112
Core self-evaluation	p. 113
Your level of life satisfaction	p. 115
Case study	p. 117
Absenteeism	p. 118
Focused free-write	p. 119
Horizontal communication	p. 120
Nonverbal communication	p. 121
Communication overload	p. 124
Your listening style	p. 125
Listening styles	p. 126
Listening quiz	p. 127
Readability	p. 130
Thinking about leadership	p. 131
Understanding your leadership style	p. 132
Focused free-write: Group dynamics	p. 140
Increasing group membership	p. 141
Teams	p. 142
Competition and conflict	p. 143
Cohen Conflict Response Inventory (short version)	p. 144
Reactions to conflict	p. 146
Reacting to conflict	p. 147
Sacred cow hunts	p. 149
Acceptance of change	p. 150
Organizational culture	p. 151
Vroom-Yetton decision-making model	p. 152
Downsizing	p. 154
Work schedules	p. 155
Type A behavior	p. 156
Optimism	p. 158
Lifestyle questionnaire	p. 160
Empowering and motivating yourself	p. 162
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