Psychology Answers

How do the 6 constructs of the BWVI impact the way in which the field of psychology is studied? 

As a newly employed HR Officer of your organisation, your first challenge is to make a presentation to your boss on an important topic you learnt from the Industrial Psychology course. Based on their current needs, you both agreed on job analysis. Make your presentation (in not more than 5 pages) detailing the usefulness of Job Analysis and the data generated from the process

In an organisation, one manager often accuses his colleagues of ‘favouritism and discrimination’ especially during the period of their annual performance appraisal. You learned that these could be classified as errors in performance appraisal. To advise them, your task is to discuss any five (5) of these errors likely to occur in performance appraisal, and how these errors can affect the objectives of any performance appraisal system in organisations

It has been observed that most private organizations will ensure that every training program they conduct is evaluated; this is not the same for public sector organizations. Using Kirkpatrick’s criteria on training evaluation, write to the head of the Public Services Commission arguing why public sector organizations must evaluate their training programs.

A financial institution needs to employ more people to work with, and so they contracted a consulting firm, Centre for Business Intelligence and Talent Management (CBI-TM) to assist in the process. The consultants who are mainly I-O psychologists would have to decide on which selection test (predictor) or approach to use. As a member of CBI-TM, you are to help your firm by making a presentation on your preference, Assessment Centers, detailing the processes, examples and relevance

1. A financial institution needs to employ more people to work with, and so they contracted a consulting firm, Centre for Business Intelligence and Talent Management (CBI-TM) to assist in the process. The consultants who are mainly I-O psychologists would have to decide on which selection test (predictor) or approach to use. As a member of CBI-TM, you are to help your firm by making a presentation on your preference, Assessment Centers, detailing the processes, examples and relevance. 

It has been observed that most private organisations will ensure that every training programme they conduct are evaluated; this is not the same for public sector organisations. Using Kirkpatrick’s criteria on training evaluation, write to the head of the Public Services Commission arguing why public sector organisations must evaluate their training programmes.

 Make presentation detailing the usefulness of Job Analysis and the data generated from the process. 

In an organisation, one manager often accuses his colleagues of ‘favouritism and discrimination’ especially during the period of their annual performance appraisal. You learned that these could be classified as errors in performance appraisal. To advise them, your task is to discuss any five (5) of these errors likely to occur in performance appraisal, and how these errors can affect the objectives of any performance appraisal system in organisations.

Using the ideas of Andre Gunder Franks’ Dependency theory and that of David Slater’s spatial theory of underdevelopment in Africa, explain how globalisation promotes or constraints the development process in sub-Saharan Africa. Discuss the theories thoroughly, link these ideas to globalisation showing the processes that facilitate or frustrate development.