Welcome to Psychology 360!

Introduction to Organizational Psychology

Professor Tom Finholt

A New Psychology
	Classical model:
	bounded, autonomous actor made up of preferences, traits, interests, and abilities
	behavior is a consequence of these internal attributes
	Contextual model:
	importance of the relational, cultural, and interdependent features of human functioning
Redefining Organizational Psychology
	Our impact on the organization, and the organization's impact on us:
	cognition as communication
	attitudes as social constructions
	identity as a function of roles and settings
	Link between theory and practice:
	concern for better functioning organizations
	skepticism about the usefulness of social science
	ambiguity of feedback
Your tour guide
	Education:
	Swarthmore College
	Stanford University
	Carnegie Mellon University
	Personal:
	 married to Dr. Stephanie Teasley
	live on the West Side
	born and bred Midwesterner

The World's Most Dangerous TAs

	JoAnn Brooks -- Sections 2 and 3
	Jim Mandiberg -- Sections 5 and 6
	Carl Watson-- Section 4

Information Survey
	Anonymous and voluntary
	No bearing on your grade
	Helps us avoid familiar material
	Helps us introduce material useful to you

Pre-test Answer Key
1) D                11) B
2) C                12) C
3) B                13) B
4) A
5) A
6) B
7) B
8) A
9) B
10) B

Course Overview
 This course is on-line
 the syllabus is only available via the World Wide Web
http:// www.umich.edu/~finholt/Psych360/Psych360-HomePage.html
we will help you use the Web
 Three key points in your syllabus:
 Our teaching philosophy
 Strategy for success
 Truth in advertising

Switching sections or enrolling
 Attend the section you want next week
 If there is room in the section the TA will issue an override

Copyright © 1996, The Regents of the University of Michigan, All rights reserved.
Revised - November 4, 1996