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Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Certificate

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» Program Overview

Helping Workplaces To Be Their Best

Organizational psychologists apply psychological principles to the challenges facing people in the modern workplace. They are specialized problem-solvers, trained to investigate and analyze the ways industrial organization affects the crucial interplay of personality and performance as well as understanding workplace productivity factors and issues related to the physical and mental well-being of employees.

This program provides practical expertise in human behavior, organizational dynamics, and administrative law, preparing graduates to design and interpret the targeted assessments required to successfully select, place, train, and evaluate workers. This certificate can be earned as a standalone program or with any of LTU’s undergraduate degrees, guaranteeing the computer savvy, professional expertise, management fundamentals, and leadership that will increase your value to employers across a wide range of professions, industries, governments, and nonprofit institutions.

» Why LTU?

  • Small class size.
  • Two psychology labs for developing and conducting experiments.
  • Collaborate in faculty research in areas such as sensation and perception, metaphor and cognition, and the psychology of virtual environments.

Contact

Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, Communication

humchair@ltu.edu

» Curriculum

TOTAL CREDIT HOURS: 15

 

Two of the following three courses:

Course Name

Course #

Credits

Human Resource Management

Provides an overview of the role and key functions of human resources management in organizations. Topics include human resource strategic planning, job analysis, staffing, training and development, performance appraisal, compensation, retention, labor relations, health and safety, and fairness concerns. Employment law and compliance, employee well-being, globalization and developing trends in human resources are also introduced.

HRM3023

3

Labor Relations

Course not found.

HRM4013

3

HR Junior/Senior Elective

HRM3/4XX3

3

And The following courses:

Course Name

Course #

Credits

Cognitive Psychology

An exploration of historical and contemporary research and theory concerned with cognitive processes including attention, memory, problem solving and concept formation. Lecture 3 hours.

PSY3213

3

Industrial Psychology

Psychology as applied to business and industry. Major areas of industrial psychology: selection, placement, and training procedures; human factors research. Industrial social psychology: motivational and organizational research and theory. Lecture 3 hours.

PSY3313

3

Organizational Psychology

This course will cover the major concepts, theories and empirical research related to organizational psychology. Specific topics will include: work motivation, leadership, decision making and job satisfaction as well as more recent trends such us cultural diversity, work teams, work-family and quality issues. Lecture 3 hours.

PSY3323

3

Total Credits:

15

» Document Viewer

Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.