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and skills of Psychology in organisations/work places (Riggio, 2009; Schultz & Schultz, 2010).
Organisations are fast adopting the principle of reducing costs and increasing productivity, this
then means that organisations are employing a whole lot less people currently. Although this
may be means of reducing costs for the organisations, it does however pose a big problem for
trade union companies whose main objectives are to organise people into workplaces. Human
resource managers have the responsibility of
One of the key problems or challenges faced in Organisational psychology is the increasing
diversity in the workplaces. This diversity refers to how different people from various
ethnicities and cultures are now coming to work in the same place and the Managers or Human
Resource managers now need to adopt new ways of having and keeping different people
together, that is to say to ensure that people are able to put their differences aside and work
together effectively and efficiently to meet the objectives of an organisation and this is
according to Edewor and Aluko (2007).
Employer of choice
Psychological health/disorders
Another uprising problem in organisational psychology is psychological health or disorders, at
work in particular. Psychological health at work plays an integral influence on not only the
performance of the employee but ultimately the production or performance of the organisation
as a whole. Psychological health refers to a multidimensional concept that is based on the
physical, emotional, social, economic and spiritual, intellectual, moral/ethnic and occupational
functioning of an individual (Heslop, 2017) . Whilst an employee may be well capable and
efficient in doing his/her job once the persons mental wellbeing is not in a good condition the
person may not be well able to do all that he is supposed to do and efficiently so. It is therefore
the responsibility of the Human Resource management to actually ensure that the employees
are doing well in all aspects of their lives which will would therefore lead them working
productively and optimally.
REFERNCES
Aluko, A.Y & Edewor, A.P. (2007) Diversity Management, Challenges, Opportunities in
Multicultural Organisations: Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities, & Nations
Cilliers, FVN, & Rothmann, S. (2007). Present challenges and some critical Issues for research
in industrial/organisational Psychology in South Africa: SA journal of Industrial Psychology,
33(1), 8-17.
Schultz, D & Schultz, S.E. (1998). Psychology and work today: An introduction to Industrial
and Organisational Psychology.
Sutherland, M.M, Torricelli, D.G., & Karg, R.F. (2002). Employer of choice branding for
knowledge workers. South African Journal of Busines Management, 33(4), 13-20.