Psychology 2660B-001 (Online for 2020-21)
Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Virtual Synchronous
If there is a discrepancy between the outline posted below and the outline posted on the OWL course website, the latter shall prevail.
1.0 CALENDAR DESCRIPTION
An introduction to the theories, methods, findings and applications of industrial and organizational psychology. Topics to be covered include: personnel recruitment and selection, employee training and development, performance appraisal, work attitudes and motivation, leadership and group processes, and organizational design.
Unless you have either the prerequisites for this course or written special permission from your Dean to enrol in it, you may be removed from this course and it will be deleted from your record. This decision may not be appealed. You will receive no adjustment to your fees in the event that you are dropped from a course for failing to have the necessary prerequisites.
Antirequisites are courses that overlap sufficiently in content that only one can be taken for credit. So if you take a course that is an antirequisite to a course previously taken, you will lose credit for the earlier course, regardless of the grade achieved in the most recent course.
2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour; 0.5 course
2.0 COURSE INFORMATION
Instructor:Dr. Natalie Allen
Office & Phone Number: 8412 SSC 519-661-3013
Office Hours: By appointment Email: nallen@uwo.ca
Teaching Assistant: Sarah Carver, MSc.
Office: 8439 SSC
Office Hours: By appointment Email: scarver3@uwo.ca
Teaching Assistant: Eva Kwan, MSc.
Office: 8433 SSC
Office Hours: By appointment Email: tkwan42@uwo.ca
Lecture Timing: 1st Lecture: Monday, January 11 2021
9:30am – 11:20am EST ZOOM
2nd & subsequent lectures: Pre-recorded videos posted weekly on OWL.
Timing of Tutorials: Wednesday 10:30 am - 12:20 pm EST (Section 002) ZOOM
Thursday 11:30 pm - 1:20 pm EST (Section 003) ZOOM
Notes. All Zoom links (for Lecture 1 & tutorials) will be announced on OWL.
As shown above, students in Section 002 will meet on Wednesdays, and students in Section 003 on Thursdays. During the 1st week of classes, however, we will be splitting both sections (002 & 003) into two smaller subgroups who will meet on alternate weeks with their tutorial leader. These tutorials Section / week assignments will be communicated to all students via OWL as soon as the section splits are made.
Please note that we will recording tutorials in order to facilitate the assessment of student participation. Students are welcome to identify themselves using whatever name they prefer during tutorials. Tutorial recordings will be made available only to the teaching assistants and instructor and will be destroyed after all course assessment is completed.
Students who are in emotional/mental distress should refer to Mental Health@Western
http://www.uwo.ca/uwocom/mentalhealth/ for a complete list of options about how to obtain help.
Please contact the course instructor if you require material in an alternate format or if you require any other arrangements to make this course more accessible to you. You may also wish to contact Student Accessibility Services (formerly known as Services for Students with Disabilities) at 519-661-2147.
3.0 TEXTBOOK
Levy, P. (2020). Industrial Organizational Psychology (6th Edition). Worth Publishers.
4.0 COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the field of industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology. Upon completion of the course, students should be familiar with both the science and practice of I/O psychology. Discussion will focus on the critical evaluation of theory and research in major topics of interest to I/O psychologists (e.g., personnel selection, performance evaluation, motivation, leadership) as well as on the application of theory and research to improve productivity and quality of work life.4.1 STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Identify key theories, and topics in I/O psychology
- Recognize strengths & limitations in research methods used in I/O psychology
- Describe major theories, key concepts and research strategies in I/O psychology
- Explain the ways that theory and research in I/O psychology might be applied in the workplace
- Table of Learning Outcomes is below
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Learning Outcome |
Learning Activity |
Assessment |
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Identify Key Theories / Findings Acquire knowledge about key theories and substantive research findings with respect to Industrial/Organizational psychology
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Reading textbook
Discussing course materials in synchronous lectures & tutorials
Course instruction Tutorial instruction |
Course Test
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Knowledge of Methodologies Acquire knowledge about the key research methods used by empirical researchers in the field of I/O Psychology |
Course instruction Tutorial instruction |
Course Test Written tutorial assignments
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Application of Knowledge Enhance students’ knowledge regarding the application of I/O psychology knowledge / principles within the workplace
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Numerous examples of workplace relevance will be presented by instructor & tutorial leaders, sought from students in synchronous lectures & tutorials, & discussed in tutorials, so as to enhance students’ knowledge regarding the application of I/O psychology knowledge / principles within the workplace. |
Participation in tutorial discussions
Written tutorial assignments
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Communication Skills Enhance written and verbal skills communication skills as they relate to the description of psychological phenomena related, to workplace teams. |
Discussing course materials in synchronous lectures & tutorials
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Participation in tutorial discussions
Written tutorial assignments
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5.0 EVALUATION
Evaluation for this course will be based on one quiz (15%), a mid-term test (25%), an end-of-term test (30%), two tutorial assignments (10% each), and participation in tutorials (10%).
- The multiple-choice Quiz will be held during class time on February 8 and will cover text and lecture material for January 11 – February 1, inclusive
- The Midterm Test will include multiple-choice and short-answer questions, will be held during class time on March 8, and will cover text, lecture, and tutorial material for January 11 – March 1 inclusive.
- The End-of-Term test will include multiple-choice and short-answer questions, will be held during the Final Exam period, and will cover text, lecture and tutorial material from March 15 to April 12 inclusive.
- Please Note: For students who miss the Quiz (with appropriate documentation or Self-Reported Absence), the Mid-Term Test will be worth 40% of the final grade. For students who miss the Mid Term Test (with appropriate documentation or Self-Reported Absence) or the Final Exam, make-up testing will be arranged.
- Attendance and participation in tutorials is required and will account for 10% of the final grade. Accordingly, as noted above, recordings (including both oral and chat messages) will be made of each tutorial session. These will be destroyed after all course evaluation has been finalized. .
- Students will be required to complete two short (500 - 750 word) tutorial assignments, one in each half of the course. The specific details about the assignments, due dates, and options available will be provided during the first tutorial session. Each of these written assignments will be worth 10% of the final grade. Late assignments, for which neither an accommodation from an academic counsellor is received, nor a Self-Reported Absence is submitted, will be penalized at the rate of 10% (from the assignment) per day. Thus, for example, if an assignment is given a grade of 82%, but was submitted 2 days late, the assignment grade will be recorded as 62%.
- Tutorials are an important component of the class. If you need to miss a tutorial please contact your TA to discuss the issue and whether there is a way for you to make up your missed session. You may miss up to one tutorial with a documented excuse (either by seeing academic counseling or by using the Self-Reporting Absence tool). Missing more than one tutorial for any reason will lead to a score of 0 for the additional missed session.
- Final grades in this class reflect student achievement. Per Department policy, grades that are close to the next grade level (e.g., 79%, 89%) will not be rounded up.
Although the Psychology Department does not require instructors to adjust their course grades to conform to specific targets, the expectation is that course marks will be distributed around the following averages:
70% 1000-level and 2000-level courses
72% 2190-2990 level courses
75% 3000-level courses
80% 4000-level courses
The Psychology Department follows Western's grading guidelines, which are as follows (see http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/academic_policies/general/grades_undergrad.pdf):
A+ 90-100 One could scarcely expect better from a student at this level
A 80-89 Superior work that is clearly above average
B 70-79 Good work, meeting all requirements, and eminently satisfactory
C 60-69 Competent work, meeting requirements
D 50-59 Fair work, minimally acceptable
F below 50 Fail
6.0 ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION SCHEDULE
February 8 2021: Quiz (1 hr; multiple choice questions covering text and lecture material for January 11 – February 1 inclusive)
March 8 2021: Mid-term Test (2 hrs; multiple choice and short answer covering text, lecture, and tutorial material for January 11 – March 1 inclusive)
TBA: End-of-term Exam (2 hrs; multiple choice and short answer questions covering text, lecture and tutorial material from March 15 to the end of the course, inclusive.)
7.0 CLASS SCHEDULE
DateTopicRequired Reading
January 11Introduction to I/O PsychologyCh. 1
January 18Research Methods in I/O PsychologyCh. 2
January 25Job AnalysisCh. 3
February 1 Performance Criteria & AppraisalCh. 4 & 5
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February 8 Quiz Ch. 1 - 5 & lectures Jan 11 – Feb 1
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Reading Week February 15 - 19
February 22Employee Selection Ch. 6 & 7
(exclude p. 223-239)
March 1 TrainingCh. 8
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March 8 Mid-Term Test Ch. 1 - 8, lectures Jan 11 – Mar 1,
& Tutorials 1-3
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March 15 Work MotivationCh.9
March 22Work Attitudes & Behaviour Ch. 10
March 29Well-being / Work Groups & Teams Ch. 11 & 12
April 5 LeadershipCh. 13
April 12 Organizational Theory & Development Ch. 14
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TBA End-of-Term Exam Ch. 9 - 14, lectures Mar 15–Apr 12,
& Tutorial 4
7.0a TUTORIAL SCHEDULE
Date Topic #Required Reading
#1: Job AnalysisCh. 3
Jan 20 / 21
Jan 27 / 28
#2: Performance CriteriaCh. 4
Feb 3 / 4
Feb 10 /11
#3: Employee SelectionCh. 5 & 6
Feb 24 / 25
March 3 / 4
No tutorials during the week of the Mid-term Test (March 8 - 12)
March 17/ 18 # 4: Work MotivationCh. 8
March 24 / 25
Note: See the course website on OWL for information about the tutorial section to which you have been assigned (002 or 003). Further, please note that during the 1st week of class (week of January 11), both tutorial sections will be divided into 2 smaller groups that meet on alternate weeks. As noted above, tutorials do not begin until the weeks of January 20 & January 27. You will be informed on OWL about the schedule your tutorial section will follow.
8.0 STATEMENT ON ACADEMIC OFFENCES
Students are responsible for understanding the nature and avoiding the occurrence of plagiarism and other scholastic offences. Plagiarism and cheating are considered very serious offences because they undermine the integrity of research and education. Actions constituting a scholastic offence are described at the following link: http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/academic_policies/appeals/scholastic_discipline_undergrad.pdf
As of Sept. 1, 2009, the Department of Psychology will take the following steps to detect scholastic offences. All multiple-choice tests and exams will be checked for similarities in the pattern of responses using reliable software, and records will be made of student seating locations in all tests and exams. All written assignments will be submitted to TurnItIn, a service designed to detect and deter plagiarism by comparing written material to over 5 billion pages of content located on the Internet or in TurnItIn’s databases. All papers submitted for such checking will be included as source documents in the reference database for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of papers subsequently submitted to the system. Use of the service is subject to the licensing agreement, currently between Western and Turnitin.com (http://www.turnitin.com).
Computer-marked multiple-choice tests and/or exams will be subject to submission for similarity review by software that will check for unusual coincidences in answer patterns that may indicate cheating.
In classes that involve the use of a personal response system (PRS), data collected using the PRS will only be used in a manner consistent to that described in this outline. It is the instructor’s responsibility to make every effort to ensure that data remain confidential. However, students should be aware that as with all forms of electronic communication, privacy is not guaranteed. Your PRS login credentials are for your sole use only. Students attempting to use another student’s credentials to submit data through the PRS may be subject to academic misconduct proceedings.
Possible penalties for a scholastic offence include failure of the assignment/exam, failure of the course, suspension from the University, and expulsion from the University.
9.0 POLICY ON ACCOMMODATION FOR ILLNESS OR OTHER ABSENCES
Western’s policy on Accommodation for Medical Illness can be found at:
http://www.westerncalendar.uwo.ca/PolicyPages.cfm?PolicyCategoryID=1&Command=showCategory&SelectedCalendar=Live&ArchiveID=#Page_12
The full policy for consideration for absences can be accessed at: https://www.uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/academic_policies/appeals/Academic_Consideration_for_absences.pdf
If you experience an extenuating circumstance (e.g., illness, injury) sufficiently significant to temporarily make you unable to meet academic requirements, you may request accommodation through the following routes:
- Submitting a Self-Reported Absence form (for circumstances that are expected to resolve within 48 hours);
- For medical absences, submitting a Student Medical Certificate (SMC) signed by a licensed medical or mental health practitioner in order to be eligible for Academic Consideration;
- For non-medical absences, submitting appropriate documentation (e.g., obituary, police report, accident report, court order, etc.) to Academic Counselling in their Faculty of registration in order to be eligible for academic consideration. Students are encouraged to contact their Academic Counselling unit to clarify what documentation is appropriate.
Students must see the Academic Counsellor and submit all required documentation in order to be approved for certain accommodation. The self-reported absence form must be submitted before the exam/coursework deadline in order to be valid. It may NOT be used for absences longer than 48 hours; coursework/tests/exams/etc., worth more than 30% of the final grade; or exams scheduled in the December or April final-exam periods: http://counselling.ssc.uwo.ca/procedures/medical_accommodation.html
Students seeking academic consideration:
- are advised to consider carefully the implications of postponing tests or midterm exams or delaying handing in work;
- are encouraged to make appropriate decisions based on their specific circumstances, recognizing that minor ailments (upset stomach) or upsets (argument with a friend) are not normally an appropriate basis for a self-reported absence;
- must communicate with their instructors no later than 24 hoursafter the end of the period covered by either the self-reported absence or SMC, or immediately upon their return following a documented absence
10.0 Contingency Plan for Return to Lockdown
In the event of a COVID-19 resurgence during the course that necessitates the course delivery moving away from face-to-face interaction, all remaining course content will be delivered entirely online, either synchronously (i.e., at the times indicated in the timetable) or asynchronously (e.g., posted on OWL for students to view at their convenience). The grading scheme will not change. Any remaining assessments will also be conducted online as determined by the course instructor.
11.0 STATEMENTS CONCERNING ONLINE ETIQUETTE
In courses involving online interactions, the Psychology Department expects students to honour the following rules of etiquette:
- please “arrive” to class on time
- please use your computer and/or laptop if possible (as opposed to a cell phone or tablet)
- please ensure that you are in a private location to protect the confidentiality of discussions in the event that a class discussion deals with sensitive or personal material
- to minimize background noise, kindly mute your microphone for the entire class until you are invited to speak, unless directed otherwise
- In classes larger than 30 participants please turn off your video camera for the entire class unless you are invited to speak
- In classes of 30 students or fewer, where video chat procedures are being used, please be prepared to turn your video camera off at the instructor’s request if the internet connection becomes unstable
- Unless invited by your instructor, do not share your screen in the meeting
The course instructor will act as moderator for the class and will deal with any questions from participants. To participate please consider the following:
- If you wish to speak, use the “raise hand” function and wait for the instructor to acknowledge you before beginning your comment or question.
- Please remember to unmute your microphone and turn on your video camera before speaking.
- Self-identify when speaking.
- Please remember to mute your mic and turn off your video camera after speaking (unless directed otherwise).
General considerations of “netiquette”:
- Keep in mind the different cultural and linguistic backgrounds of the students in the course.
- Be courteous toward the instructor, your colleagues, and authors whose work you are discussing.
- Be respectful of the diversity of viewpoints that you will encounter in the class and in your readings. The exchange of diverse ideas and opinions is part of the scholarly environment. “Flaming” is never appropriate.
- Be professional and scholarly in all online postings. Use proper grammar and spelling. Cite the ideas of others appropriately.
Note that disruptive behaviour of any type during online classes, including inappropriate use of the chat function, is unacceptable. Students found guilty of Zoom-bombing a class or of other serious online offenses may be subject to disciplinary measures under the Code of Student Conduct.
12.0 OTHER INFORMATION
Office of the Registrar: http://registrar.uwo.ca
Student Development Services: www.sdc.uwo.ca
Please see the Psychology Undergraduate web site for information on the following:
http://psychology.uwo.ca/undergraduate/student_responsibilities/index.html
- Policy on Cheating and Academic Misconduct
- Procedures for Appealing Academic Evaluations
- Policy on Attendance
- Policy Regarding Makeup Exams and Extensions of Deadlines
- Policy for Assignments
- Short Absences
- Extended Absences
- Documentation
- Academic Concerns
- 2020-2021 Calendar References
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