Organizational Behavior Management and Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Both I/O psychology and OBM address workplace performance. In this assignment, you will demonstrate your comprehension of OBM by comparing and contrasting it with I/O psychology.
Instructions
Review the literature related to I/O psychology and OBM.
- Identify and describe basic themes common to both disciplines.
- Analyze the theoretical underpinnings of each approach by:
- Describing the theory behind each approach.
- Comparing and contrasting the theories with one another.
- Considering the relationship to basic behavior analytic concepts.
- Locate four recent evidence-based studies in the literature that share common themes, two demonstrating OBM approaches and two demonstrating I/O psychology approaches.
- Consider the research questions, design, methods, and results of the studies, and analyze how they are consistent with the approach taken.
- Assess if the approach taken by each study was the best approach. Explain your response.
- State if I/O psychology and OBM are best seen as distinct fields or if one is more clearly a subset of the other, based on your analysis. Synthesize your analysis to justify your conclusions.
Assignment Requirements
Your assignment should meet the following requirements:
- References: At least six scholarly resources, four of which should be peer-reviewed journal articles. One reference may be a scholarly text.
- Length of paper: 6–8 typed, double-spaced pages, in addition to a title page and a references page.
- no AI content
- no websites as references