Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Industrial Psychology

Outcomes

1. The ability to multi-paradigmatically psychologically analyse and explain the performance of working man in terms of psychological principles derived from advanced psychological theories.
2. The ability to conduct integrated psychologically assessment in terms of intellectual ability, aptitude, interests, personality, learning potential and leadership, to interpret such assessments and to identify symptoms for intervention.
3. The ability to calculate the appropriate indices and examine the psychometric properties [standardisation, reliability, validity] of assessment techniques and the ability to validate personnel selection procedures [validity, fairness, utility] in accordance with the Guidelines on the Validation and use of Assessment procedures for the Workplace Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology South Africa (SIOPSA) by performing the appropriate statistical analyses on a criterion and predictor data set.
4. The ability to derive human resource management interventions from psychological theory and to organise, lead, monitor/evaluate and improve such interventions.
5. The ability to perform needs analysis, design development programmes and present development programmes.
6. The ability to derive and describe the implications the current nature of the South African work environment and labour market for human resource strategy and practices and, based on this, to forecast future trends in the South African work environment and labour market and deduce the Human Resources Management implications.
7. The ability to plan and design descriptive, explanatory and evaluative research projects/studies.
8. The ability to provide career guidance based on a psychological analysis and explanation of career behaviour and based on an identification of career phases.
9. The ability to diagnose symptoms of individual performance pathology, offer basic supportive counselling and refer to an appropriate health care professional.
10. The ability to conduct/apply and evaluate human resource planning, recruitment, selection, remuneration and performance appraisal in the contemporary organisation.
11. The ability to psychologically analyse and explain the influence of work motivation, group dynamics and organisational change and development on employee work performance and organisational effectiveness.
12. The ability to evaluate Human Resource interventions and practices in terms of labour law [Employment Equity Act, Basic conditions of Employment Act, Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, Skills Development Act, Labour Relations Act] and offer suggestions on aligning practice and law.
13. The ability to make ethically defensible decisions regarding the attainment and use of information based on an internalised understanding and appreciation of the ethical principles governing the obtaining and utilisation of information from clients in psychological assessment, counselling and research.
14. The ability to analyse and explain working man's interaction with the physical working environment in terms of psychological principles.

Assessment Criteria