Course Textbook: Spector, P. E. (2012). Industrial and organizational psychology: Research and practice (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
The student will create a 15- to 20-slide PowerPoint presentation on occupational stress. The presentation must includethe following:
• Background information on the occupational stress process,
• Statistics and facts that illustrate the impact and importance of occupational stress in the workplace,
• A description of common job stressors, and
• A description of an actual work setting of your choice and a description of the types of job stressors that you wouldlikely find in that setting.
o You should choose a setting in which there would be at least three job stressors to describe.
o Explain ways in which an I/O psychologist could intervene to reduce the effects of these job stressors (i.e.,whatan I/O psychologist would change, such as work schedules, to reduce the job stressors).
You are required to follow the APA guidelines and use at least three references including your textbook.
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1. Define occupational health psychology.
2. Distinguish between the types of work schedules and what research suggests about the benefits and drawbacks of each.
3. Analyze the occupational stress process, and have a basic understanding of common job stressors.
4. Describe burnout, including its components and the results of burnout.
5. Distinguish between work groups and work teams.
6. Evaluate major team concepts, including roles, norms, group cohesiveness, team conflict, process loss, and team commitment.
7. Explain what research suggests regarding group and team performance, as well as the ways in which performance can increase and decrease.
8. Describe groupthink and how to avoid it.