13.2 Industrial Psychology: Selecting and Evaluating Employees

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

  • Explain the aspects of employee selection
  • Describe the kinds of job training
  • Describe the approaches to and issues surrounding performance assessment

The branch of I-O psychology known as industrial psychology focuses on identifying and matching persons to tasks within an organization. This involves job analysis, which means accurately describing the task or job. Then, organizations must identify the characteristics of applicants for a match to the job analysis. It also involves training employees from their first day on the job throughout their tenure within the organization, and appraising their performance along the way.

The content of this course has been taken from the free Psychology textbook by Openstax