What is I-O?

Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology is a dynamic and growing field that addresses workplace issues at the individual and organizational level. I-O psychologists apply research that improves the well-being and performance of people and the organizations that employ them. This involves everything from workforce planning, employee selection, and leader development to studying job attitudes and job motivation, implementing work teams, improving diversity and inclusion, and facilitating organizational change.

The UTC I-O program identified four major competencies that have been developed through a process of aggregating and thereby reducing the 26 competencies identified in the SIOP (2016) Guidelines for Graduate Education. As outlined in those Guidelines, a professional in I-O psychology should be competent in these four general competency domains: Psychology of Work, Work Design, Talent Management, and Professional Practice. I provide work samples completed across my career that represent these four competencies, which you can view using the navigation bar.