Early Years of Industrial and Organizational Psychology

This book provides a comprehensive history of the early years of industrial and organizational psychology from an international perspective.

List of contents

1. Work, psychology, and history; 2. Historical context and influence; 3. Measurement, individual differences, and psychological testing; 4. Initial forays into industry; 5. Industrial psychology and the Great War; 6. The post-war expansion of industrial psychology; 7. Employee selection in the 1920s; 8. The education of industrial psychologists; 9. Establishing a profession; 10. The beginnings of organizational psychology; 11. Reflections on the early years of I-O psychology.

About the author

Andrew J. Vinchur is a Professor of Psychology and former department head at Lafayette College. Long interested in the history of psychology, his published work has focused on the history of industrial and organizational psychology, especially the history of psychology applied to employee selection.

Summary

Provides a comprehensive history of the early years of industrial and organizational psychology from an international perspective. A valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, I-O psychologists, practitioners, and historians of science.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew J Vinchur, Andrew J. Vinchur, VINCHUR ANDREW, Vinchur Andrew J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781107065734
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06573-4
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychology, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology, Psychological methodology