Description
Apply psychological science to workplaces to optimize talent, teams, and organizations. Design and validate selection, assessment, and training; lead organizational development and change; conduct research and analytics; and advise leaders to improve performance, engagement, and well-being while ensuring ethical and legal compliance.
- • Design and implement employee selection and placement programs.
- • Conduct job analyses to define competencies and criteria for HR decisions.
- • Observe and interview employees to document job demands and satisfaction.
- • Report research findings and implications for organizational practice.
- • Advise leaders on HR, management, and workforce policies and their impact.
- • Identify training and development needs across roles and levels.
- • Study work environments, structures, and teams to assess functioning.
- • Design, deliver, and evaluate training using learning science.
- • Develop and validate interviews, rating scales, and psychometric tests.
- • Create and refine performance management and appraisal methods.
- • Evaluate organizational effectiveness, productivity, and leadership.
- • Facilitate organizational development, change, and culture initiatives.
- • Analyze program outcomes using statistics and data science tools.
- • Provide career and work-related counseling when appropriate.
- • Conduct consumer and employee attitude research using surveys and experiments.
- • Support mediation, conflict resolution, and labor-management dialogue.
- • Present findings to clients, executives, and professional audiences.
- • Offer expert testimony or consultation in employment-related litigation.
- • Review literature to stay current on I-O research and best practices.
- • Conduct and interpret individual assessments; provide selection feedback.
- • Publish articles, white papers, or reports to disseminate insights.
- • Build client relationships and write proposals for I-O services.
- • Train HR and managers on testing, selection, and performance management.
- • Coach executives and managers on leadership and performance.
- • Recommend evidence-based selection and assessment practices and implementation.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
