The Certificate of Industrial and Organisational Psychology

• Introduction
  • Free Will versus Determinism
  • Developmental and Interactive Expressions of Behaviour
  • Nature versus Nurture
  • Influence of Environment on Learning Behaviour
  • Modelling and Conformity
  • Conditioning involves Certain Environmental Factors which Encourage Learning to Take Place
  • Classical Conditioning
  • Operant Conditioning
  • Reinforcement & Punishment
• Understanding the Employees Thinking
  • Sensation and Perception
  • Thinking and Day Dreaming
  • The Gestalt Approach
  • Unconscious and Conscious Psychic Elements
  • Explaining Behaviour
  • Knowledge of Brain Processes
  • Personal Interpretation of a Given Situation
  • Instinct.
  • Terminology including: Mating, Curiosity, Maternal, Acquiring, Repulsion, Constructiveness, Rivalry, Laughter, Fighting, Walking, Swallowing, Play, Imitation, Sleep, Modesty, Domineering, Religion, Self Asserting, Sneezing, Thirst, Cleanliness, Workmanship, Parenting, Food seeking, Flight, Collecting, Sympathy.
• Personality & Temperament
  • Mature & Immature Temperaments (e.g. Sanguine, Melancholic, Choleric, Phlegmatic)
  • Emotional Types
  • Fear
  • Intelligence
  • Knowledge
  • Deviation, etc.
• Psychological Testing
  • The Application Form
  • Psychological Test
  • The Interview
  • Intelligence Tests
  • Laws of Learning
  • Devising Tests
  • Selecting Appropriate Tests.
• Management & Managers
  • Qualities of Managers
  • Understanding Morale
  • Discipline
  • Training, etc.
• The Work Environment
  • Noise
  • Space
  • Light
  • Temperature
  • Speed of Work, etc.
  • Accidents
  • Breakages
  • Fatigue etc.
• Motivation and Incentives
  • Maslow’s Model of Self-Actualisation
  • Security
  • Money
  • Ambition
  • Companionship
  • Social Reinforcement
  • Labour Wastage, etc.
• Recruitment
  • Ways of Seeking Applicants
  • Types of Interview
  • Ways of Selecting Staff.
• Social Considerations
  • Group Behaviour
  • Conformity
  • Industrial Groups
  • The Hawthorne Effect
• Abnormalities and Disorders
  • Psychosis
  • Neurosis
  • Personality Disorders
  • Variance
  • Partial Disability (e.g. arm, leg injuries; epilepsy, digestive disorders etc.)
  • The Psycho Neurotic

When you study with Australian Online Courses, you will be assessed using a competency-based training method.

Competency-based training focuses on the achievement of skills and knowledge against set criteria to meet industry-standard and is not benchmarked against other students’ work.

In this course, the assessment will be comprised of written assignments and exercises, which may include short answer questions, reports, essays, research projects and reflective tasks.

If you do not achieve a competency result on your first attempt, you have two more attempts to pass your assessment. So, you have three attempts in total to obtain a competency result.

In this way, you can complete your course in your own time and at your own pace with the assistance of unlimited tutor support.

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• Unlimited tutor support;
• Easy to understand course content;
• Twelve (12) months’ access, with extensions available upon application (fees apply);
• Certificate of Attainment/Completion issued for your CV (hard copy provided); and
• Course may be tax deductible; see your tax advisor.

The approximate study hours for this course is 15 hours. Twelve (12) months’ access, with extensions available upon application (fees apply).

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