Friday, January 28, 2011

SUMMARY OF CHAPTER 4: Job And Job Analysis

                    In this chapter , Its only about job applicants , job determinants , how an employee retained in their job. Job determinants are the one who is asking question to the applicant . In hiring an applicant the job determinants should know the information about them, to know if the applicant is qualified or not.

SUMMARY OF CHAPTER 3: Behavioral Resaerch

                   It deals with research relating to the behavior of people in their work relationships.

                   Types of variables used in behavioral research is one of the subtopic of chapter 3 , it discussed about the CRITERION or being predicted , such as job performance , job satisfaction, absenteeism or heart rate. The other one is PREDICTOR or the one used in predicting in criterion such as test scores , measures of physical characteristics or measures of other personal characteristics.
                   The types of measurement of variables is also discussed in chapter 3. To measure the predictors and criterion it requires a variables and there are 4 basic types of measurement or scales. First, Nominal Scale the categorical or level. ordinal scale , characterized the rank order. Interval scale the numerical difference, it has no absolute zero. Ratio scale , the Interval scale , the ratio scale does have an absolute zero.
                  

SUMMARY OF CHAPTER 2: Bases of Job related Behavior

                    In this Chapter , some of this topics are factors associated with difference in behavior , its all about the job that can be measured and witch is essentially evaluative it more focuses on the behavior of individual performing their jobs. It also discussed matching and mismatches of job. It says that if the employees are fit to their job or not. 

SUMMARY OF CHAPTER 1: Overview

             In Chapter 1 it discussed the following topics , the industrial Psychology , Development of Industrial, Modus Operandi of Industrial Psychology, Identification of Problems , The faces of industrial psychology and Industrial Psychology as a Science.
             We can learn here about the methods or procedure of how an applicant hired, so that we can understand more how the employers hired an applicant.
               The modus Operandi of industrial psychology tells us about what are the ways or process of working .. First, Identifying the problem , Second, Use of various methods of collection and analysis of relevant data, third , Findings results from this methods and associated analyses and last is the application of such findings to problem hand.