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how does psychology take into account individual differences in the workplace
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The Psychology of the Workplace "Using what you have learnt since starting this module, illustrate how psychology takes into account individual differences at the workplace. You will need to make references to academic research and evidence." Introduction Individual differences is the study in the area of work psychology which has come under major research; It can be defined as the studying the Cognitive, motivation, personality, and traits that make humans differ from one another. (Psych, 2004) In relation to work psychology is it thought that the behaviour of an individual can predict performance in the workplace; affecting many things such as motivation, commitment and job performance. The reason why many organisations are interested in the individual differences of employees they hire at the recruitment and selection stage, in order for the best participants to be selected. Therefore needs to a means of testing everybody fairly. Some organisations use psychometric testing,...
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