This course helps develop knowledge and skills for anyone involved in workplace situations, such as managers, supervisors, small business owners, union representatives, etc. Find out more about this and other topics relating to industrial psychology by taking this course.

By understanding the thought processes that take place in the minds of people at work, a manager or supervisor can develop empathy with their staff, and apply this empathy to the way they manage the workplace.

There are 10 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction
2. Understanding the Employees Thinking
3. Personality & Temperament
4. Psychological Testing
5. Management & Managers
6. The Work Environment
7. Motivation and Incentives
8. Recruitment
9. Social Considerations
10. Abnormalities and Disorders

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

• Discuss basic concepts that may be relevant to understanding industrial psychology.
• Identify similarities and differences that occur in the way different employees perceive their workplace.
• Discuss the effect of personality and temperament upon industrial psychology.
• Identify applications for psychological testing in industrial management.
• Discuss the psychology of management
• Identify ways that the work environment might impact upon the psychology of people in a workplace
• Explain how motivation influences work productivity.
• Discuss the application of psychology to recruitment.
• Explain the impact of social factors upon work productivity.
• Discuss the significance of psychological disorders or abnormalities in a workplace.