Industrial Psychology

Syllabus of  Punjabi University, Patiala.

Industrial Psychology

Subject Code:-428

Specialization:- Human Resource Management 

MBA Part-II (Semester-IV) 

Group I

Psychology: Nature and Scope, Psychology and Management,

Industrial Psychology Organizational/Industrial Psychology nature and scope.

Individual differences and behaviour: Personality differences.

Human needs and their implications for an organization.

Personnel Selection in MNCs, importance of testing techniques, Psychological and Projective tests. Employee Training & Development, Performance Management and feedback.

Job Satisfaction: importance and measurement.

Leadership Development: Transformational. Authentic, By walking around and Level five leadership. Human side of mergers & acquisitions,

Employee Attrition issues and strategies.

Group II

Psychological Contract: breach of psychological contract, its implications.

Expatriate management: adjustment issues of expatriates.

Psychological Labour: implications for employees.

Occupational Stress. Work-life balance. Occupational health and well being.

Organizational Justice: aggression at workplace, bullying.

Diversity and discrimination issues at workplace: managing diversity. Gender issues: glass ceiling and its implications and remedies

Frustration: symptoms, causes and remedies.

• Recommended Texts
  1. H.L. Kalia, Industrial Psychology, The Associated Publishers, 1st Edition, 2006.
  2. Cary L. Cooper and Edwin A. Locke, Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
  Blackwell Publishing, 2000.
  3. Joseph Tiffin, Ernest J. McCormick, and Daniel R. Ilgen, Industrial Psychology,
  Prentice hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1987.
  4. Michael G. Aamodt, Industrial / Organizational Psychology, Cengage Learning,
  2008.
  5. Wayne Weiten and Margaret A. Lloyd, Psychology Applied to Modern Life,
  Thomson Learning 8th Edition, 2007.