Workplace Psychology Level 3

An overview of workplace psychology relating to individual growth and achievement. You’ll learn the importance of studying people though questioning and observation, environmental influences, mental experience, body/mind connections, feelings and emotions, and the ability adapt to the environment.

In this unit, you’ll look at how an individual is best placed for a certain role, focusing on required skill set, matching the right responses, and their emotional and mental make-up. You’ll look at stimuli and internal thoughts in relation to the process of sensation and perception.

This unit covers the process of selection, placement and classification, exploring the concepts of personality character and temperament. You’ll entwine this with intelligence, character and knowledge and consider the application of psychology to situations in the workplace. This unit will grasp the depths of personality and how this can alter actions in the workplace.

This unit delves into the method of testing using selection, guidance, training and intelligence. You’ll learn about preparing selection tests, vocational guidance and selection, and various types of training.

This section details the position of managers. You’ll learn about what makes a good manager and why they’re vital, directors of management, choosing executives, and achieving success in management.

In this unit, you’ll determine various conditions that can impact a workplace, including accidents in relation to the environment or an individual, being accident prone, and direct/indirect breakages.

What really motivates people? This unit considers why humans act in a particular way, looking at different approaches to motivation. You’ll see how having a flexible management team who are able to adapt to the situation they are faced with is usually a more positive way of achieving an outcome.

This unit will highlight the recruitment process, and the best ways to select candidates for a role. You’ll look at interview techniques, the training of interviewers and psychological tests which can be used during the recruitment process.

This unit will focus on the study of people’s behaviour and their interaction with certain groups. The types of interaction varies from situation to situation, with informal and formal conversations happening between colleagues regularly.

This unit will highlight the classifications of mental health problems, the entry of these variants into the workplace and how industrial psychologists may be faced with the task of rehabilitating these people.