Psychological Foundations

Create a 12-15 slide PowerPoint presentation integrating I-O psychology theory and scientific evidence in a business-friendly way to promote your services to the management team.

Introduction
For this assessment, you will assume the role of an I-O consultant who has been brought in to speak with a management team by the human resources department of a potential client. You will create a 12–15-slide PowerPoint presentation integrating I-O psychology theory and scientific evidence in a business-friendly way to promote your services to the management team.

The ability to explain I-O psychology in a business-friendly way to business executives brings an I-O psychologist down out of the "ivory tower" and onto the same playing field as a business person. When you can speak the language of business instead of the language of psychology with your business clients, it is much easier to do your job.

As organizations encounter an increasingly complex global environment, the personnel psychologist is seen more and more as a strategic partner. From screening individuals for overseas assignments, to developing selection instruments and designing the managerial and leadership training platforms, psychological practitioners—often Industrial/Organizational (I-O) psychologists— are becoming more and more ingrained in the strategic plan development of organizations.

Much of the practice, science, and theory surroundin

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