Department of Psychology

 

 

 

 

Industrial/Organizational - Visit the I/O Area web site to learn more

The program in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Penn State combines course work, research, and supervised practical experience to prepare students for positions in a variety of industrial, governmental, consulting, and academic settings. Students participate in seminar topics such as personnel selection, training and development, and organizational psychology. In addition to conducting research for their master's theses and doctoral dissertations, students participate in practice that provide the opportunity to work on real-world problems in industrial and government organizations. Teams of I/O graduate students, under faculty supervision, plan and conduct research requested by firms and governmental agencies. In addition to providing practicum opportunities, these organizations contribute to the graduate program financially, helping to support convention travel, thesis and dissertation research, summer employment, etc. Students are encouraged to combine their work in the I/O program with training in other areas of psychology and related disciplines, including social psychology, organizational behavior, and statistics and methodology.

Core Faculty at the University Park Campus
Short Bios of all the Core Faculty

Name (homepage)	E-mail	Office	Phone
Cleveland, Jeanette	jnc10@psu.edu	435 Beam	863-1712
Farr, James	j5f@psu.edu	439 Beam	863-1734
Grandey, Alicia	aag6@psu.edu	424 Beam	863-1867
Hunter, Sam	sth11@psu.edu	437 Beam	865-0107
Jacobs, Rick	rick.jacobs@ebjacobs.com	432 Beam	863-7389 237-5997
Mohammed, Susan	sxm40@psu.edu	423 Beam	863-7387
Murphy, Kevin	krm10@psu.edu	431 Beam	863-3373

Other Faculty and Programs:
Other members of the psychology department faculty at University Park Campus with interests in industrial/organizational psychology include: Melvin Mark (equity and resource allocations, program evaluation in organizations); Michelle Newman (cost- benefit models of therapeutic interventions for anxiety); and Janet Swim (biases in performance evaluations). In addition, there is close interaction with industrial psychologists in The Smeal College of Business Administration.

Psychology faculty at other locations with interests in industrial-organizational psychology include: John Johnson (validity of personality inventories for personnel selection) and Henry Patterson (group dynamics, stress, leadership and organizational development).