industrial psychology
- noun
- /ɪnˈdʌstriəl saɪˈkɒlədʒi/
- Specialized
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psicología industrial
- Research in industrial psychology focuses on improving employee morale and productivity through various psychological strategies.
- personnel and industrial psychology
Examples
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Only those teachers who taught graduate-level courses in personnel selection or industrial psychology were asked to participate.
Academic text (1999) -
A degree in industrial psychology allows individuals to study how psychological principles can be applied to solve workplace challenges.
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Although my degree is in industrial psychology and I worked for several years at a large corporation, I retired temporarily to have children.
Fiction book (1992) -
Some specialize in areas such as statistical research or industrial psychology and may have little experience treating people.
Blog text (11) -
Therefore, we will outline the history of validity and how it has evolved in the psychological literature up to the present time, with a particular emphasis on personnel and industrial psychology.
Academic text (1998) -
In 1913, Munsterberg published his valuable book "Psychology and Productive Efficiency," which held new thoughts that contributed to the development of industrial psychology and added an explanation of the relationship between management and human behavior.
Academic text (2012) -
An approximately 2,000-word text was taken from an Industrial Psychology textbook (Landy & Conte, 2004) and adapted for use in this study.
Academic text (2010) -
In the end, it may not be so much a need to refute our past, but rather to build and expand on it to create a more inclusive concept of construct validity for personnel and industrial psychology that will lead to an expanded role for theory (Campbell, 1990b).
Academic text (1998) -
For example, Carton and Chelladurai (1981), drawing on the work of Turner and Lawrence (1965) from industrial psychology, suggested that types of sports could be differentiated on the basis of the degree to which members of a team engage in coordinative activity to achieve common (team) goals or engage in independent activities to achieve personal goals.
Academic text (2007) -
Companies often rely on experts in industrial psychology to create a better work culture and enhance overall efficiency.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'industrial' (relating to industry/workplaces) modifies 'psychology' (the study of behavior), yielding the study of behavior in industrial or workplace contexts. This noun–adjective combination follows a common and cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Industrial psychology comes from the words industrial, meaning workplaces and factories, and psychology, meaning the study of people's minds. Imagine someone watching workers on a factory floor to find better ways to do the job and to help people feel and work better, so the phrase means 'the study of people's behavior in workplaces'.