role of psychology in HR

1. ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN
HR

2. INTRODUCTION
● ORGANISATION:
- is an institution, created by society to undertake a
set of tasks.
-its success depends upon the knowledge, skills and
abilities of their employees.
- to keep these things in balance the HR department
needs the help of psychology.

3. HR PSYCHOLOGY
● Is a process of bringing
people and
organizations together
so that the goals of
each are met.
● Is the study of human
behavior. The study is
not only how they
behave, but why they
behave as they do.
HR Vs PSYCHOLOGY

4. BRANCHES OF PSYCHOLOGY
● Developmental
● Adolescent
● Abnormal
● Clinical
● social
● Educational
● Differential
● Experimental
● Organizational
● industrial

5. AREAS WHERE PSYCHOLOGY HELPS HR
● Selection
● Training
● Career development
● Performance
management
● To diagnose roots of the
problem and solve it
● Interview
● Job analysis
● Motivating employees
● Minimizing
organizational stress

6. SELECTION
ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN SELECTION:
● They study and suggests qualifications that a
particular type of person must possess.
● It analyses various elements involved in a particular
type of work.
● It also comes up with an ideal person profile that the
organization is looking for.

7. TRAINING
ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN TRAINING:
● They design and deliver training courses.
● Scientific human learning theories.
● Training principles.

8. CAREER DEVELOPMENT
ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN CAREER
DEVELOPMENT:
● Determines best career for a person by analyzing his
characters.
● It suggests best ways to attain them in future.
● It also suggests ways to shine in the present career
by observing the qualities of the job.

9. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN PERFORMANCE
APPRAISAL:
● They suggest many methods for performance appraisal.
● Determines the errors that may happen.
● suggesting ways to overcome these errors:
1. providing evaluators with proper training.
2. arranging the evaluative format to minimize
errors.
● Suggests best rating proceducers.

10. DIAGNOSE ROOT CAUSE OF PROBLEMS
ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN DIAGNOSIS:
● Understanding the needs of the employees.
● Understanding the problem from their point of view.
● Helps in creating a feeling of ownership among
employees.
● Helps in creating a high morale among employees.

11. INTERVIEW
PSYCHOLOGY IN INTERVIEW:
● Designing standard interview methods.
● Helps the HR’s to determine the characters from
their behavior during interview.
● To frame suitable questions for various stages of
interview.

12. JOB ANALYSIS
ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN INTERVIEW:
The psychology has given seven methods:
1. Questionnaire.
2.Activity method.
3.Individual psychographic.
4.Time and motion study.
5.Skill analysis.
6.Job psychograph.

13. MOTIVATION
ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN MOTIVATION:
● Helps HR to motivate individually by analyzing
everyone's characters.
● Helps in designing motivation programmes.
● Helps in training the executives to give proper
motivation to their employees.

14. MINIMISING ORGANIZATIONAL STRESS
ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGY IN REDUCING THE
STRESS:
The techniques developed by psychologist are:
1. Cultivate problem solving.
2. Avoid stressful situation.
3. Confront it.
4. Increase physical activity.
5. Find relaxing alternatives.

15. CONCLUSION
● These days, various industries give rise. So, now
industrial growth depends completely on psychological
aspects.
● The experiments and investigations conducted in the
field of psychology has given out;
1. Conditions of work.
2. Selection of workers.
3. Human elements in industry.
4. Promotions and transfers.
5. Conflicts in industry.

16. BIBILIOGRAPHY
1. Personnel and Organizational Psychology
- Laurence Siegel & Irving M.Lane
2. Psychology, Human Relations and Work Adjustment
- Rene V.Dawis & Rosemary T.Fruehling
3. ABC of Industrial Psychology
- prof. S.P. Chaube.
4. Introduction to Psychology
- Clifford T.Morgan & Richard A.King