According to Argyris (1976): following are the traditional functions of industrial psychologists –
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- Selection and testing
- Personnel development: training, performance appraisal, attitude measurement,
employee counselling, career planning - Human engineering: Equipment and product design
- Productivity study: worker fatigue, monotony, absenteeism, physical aspects of
work environment, for e.g. lighting and temperature - Human relations: relations between supervisor and subordinates, and of labour
union to management - Others: marketing research, accidents and safety, etc.
The recent development of a few more functions has been identified in the field of industrial-Organizational Psychology by Argyris (1976)-
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- A focus on description and prediction from individual differences, with little
regard to the processes of human behaviour within organisations; - A focus on selection and placement without extending it to development at
either organisational or individual levels; - Research methods (being experimental, precise, objective and too rigorous)
resulting in the alienation of subjects
- A focus on description and prediction from individual differences, with little