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Industrial Psychology Analysis
Industrial Psychology analyzes and studies human behavior within the workplace and how the behavior impacts overall production and job performance (Jansen et al. 13). There are four separate topics within the field to present a clear picture of how workplaces influence physiological behavior (Ohly & Schmitt 15). Specialized knowledge, skills and procedures, problems within the workplace, and populations served by the work determine the role of psychology in predicting workplace actions.
Specialized knowledge is a topic to cover criteria and small group theories within workplace dynamics (Guyton et al. 471). Two essential questions on the subject matter are how individuals work together in group settings to complete a task and how individuals process rules and procedures for work (Lord et al. 434). The questions provide compressed data on workplace functions to analyze and manipulate in studies on specialized knowledge within companies to determine how industries manage employee time and skill sets (Lord et al. 435).
Skills and procedures determine development and training to help employees maximize a company’s efforts and balance their family dynamics with work commitments (Marsh 326). Emotional development ensures employees buy into a company’s mission with an emphasis on the family being significant too (Marsh 327). Problems within the workplace indicate the need for manipulation to address proper skills and procedures.

Employees learn through conditioning within the workplace (Yang 20). Workplace rewards and incentives for accurate job performance means the conditioning of employee behavior to ensure commonality within the production of goods and services (Yang 21). The human and work-related behaviors conducted by employees can be manipulated through the psychological process of conditioning the brain through training and motivation.
The population served focuses on individualized behaviors and the community of consumers of the product (Grimmelikhuijsen et al. 45). Workers and companies will have to coordinate products and services based on the individualized needs of clients (Flanigan et al. 303). Psychological research is a predictor of human behavior and can determine the population served.
Addressing the four needs of a workplace requires the use of psychological studies and manipulating the data to form a valid business model structure (Morgan et al. 439). Employee behavior is learned through work and can be manipulated to benefit the company (Parker 29). Conditioning varies from companies and is individualized to meet the specific demands and overall mission of a company.
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Development and validation of an affective work events taxonomy using concept mapping methodology.” Journal of Business and Psychology 30.1 (2015): 15-35.
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