Entry Level Qualification 

Graduate

Career Fields 

Medical Services

For Specially Abled 

Career Entrance Exam 

NEET UG, NEET PG

About Career 

1. A psychologist who is specialized in the study of industrial-organizational psychology is known as an industrial-organizational psychologist. As an industrial-psychologist, you apply the psychological principles to solve the problems at workplaces (offices, factories, etc.) by observing the employee’s behaviour and their working style while they do their job.  An industrial-psychologist evaluate the environment of an organization to improve the quality of working life.

2. As an industrial-organizational psychologist, you will ensure that an organization must operate efficiently providing a healthy and safe working environment.  These psychologists’ practice in management and scientific firms, government agencies, colleges and universities and the research and development sector. They spend more time conducting research in scientific and statistical data. You may either work for a separate department or a whole organization.

Key Roles And Responsibilities

1. You will counsel and assist the human resources of the organization about job-related issues. Human resources might include business owners, CEOs and employees, etc.

2. You will create training programmes and implement in the organization.

3. You will provide expert testimony in lawsuits of the organization.

4. You will assess employees’ performance and suggest them better ways to increase their productivity.

5. You will collaborate with the management to help them in planning their policies, training employees and hiring new personnel.

6. You must identify how does an individual react to a new policy or product introduction.

7. You shall help the administration, individuals, management and various departments of the organization to enhance better relations with each other.

8. As an industrial-organizational psychologist, you will use scientific techniques to conduct research at the workplace related to work environment, organization structure, communication system, organization functioning, etc.

9. You will help in settling down disputes and sustaining good relations between all people in an organization.

10. You will study consumer’s behaviour through various sales, marketing research and bring key insights.

11. You will help employees to cope up with the stress and other related pressures they feel at their workplace.

Career Entry Pathway 

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies - Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies – UG in Psychology / Behavioural Psychology / similar subject – PG in Industrial/ Organizational/ Occupational Psychology

After your Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies, you can study Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies and then study for an undergraduate degree in Psychology similar subject (Honours or specialisation is an advantage) followed by a master’s degree in Industrial/ Organizational/ Occupational Psychology.

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies - Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies –UG in Psychology / Behavioural Psychology / similar subject – PG in Industrial/ Organizational/ Occupational Psychology – M.Phil. in Industrial/ Organizational/ Occupational Psychology

After your Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies, you can study Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies and then study for an undergraduate degree in Psychology/ similar subject (Honours or specialisation is an advantage) followed by a master’s degree in Industrial/ Organizational/ Occupational Psychology. Now you can opt for M.Phil. in Industrial/ Organizational/ Occupational Psychology.

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies - Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies –UG in Psychology / Clinical Psychology / similar subject – PG in Industrial/ Organizational/ Occupational Psychology – PhD in Industrial/ Organizational/ Occupational Psychology

After your Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies, you can study Class 11-12 with any subject as per scheme of studies and then study for an undergraduate degree in Psychology/ similar subject (Honours or specialisation is an advantage) followed by a master’s degree in Industrial/ Organizational/ Occupational Psychology. After the Master’s, you may proceed to study for a Ph.D. in Industrial/ Organizational/ Occupational Psychology.

Required Qualification & Competencies 

To become an Industrial/Occupational Psychology, it could be a good idea to first do a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and then do a Master’s degree in Industrial/Occupational Psychology. But you can do a Bachelor or Master’s degree in any of the following fields to work as an Industrial/ Occupational Psychologist:

1. Clinical Psychology

2. Counseling Psychology

3. Industrial and Organizational Psychology

4. Psychology

 
​​​​​​​Competencies Required

Interests

1. Investigative: You should have interests for Investigative Occupations. Investigative occupations involve working with ideas and quite a lot of thinking, often abstract or conceptual thinking. These involve learning about facts and figures; involve use of data analysis, assessment of situations, decision making and problem solving.

2. Social: You should have interests for Social Occupations. Social occupations involve helping or assisting others; these involve working with and communicating with people to provide various services; these may involve educating and advising others.

3. Artistic: You should have interests for Artistic Occupations. Artistic occupations mostly involve working with creative ideas, art and designs. These occupations involve abstract or conceptual thinking, creative self-expression and often do not follow any set processes or rules for getting things done.

Abilities

1. Abstract Reasoning: The ability to understand ideas which are not expressed in words or numbers; the ability to understand concepts which are not clearly expressed verbally or otherwise.

2. Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules and common logic to specific problems to produce answers that are logical and make sense. For example, understanding the reasons behind an event or a situation using general rules and common logic.

3. Emotional Intelligence: The ability to understand your own and others' emotions and feelings; empathy for others; adjusting your behaviour or self-control and self-regulation according to others' emptions and situations.

4. Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information from various sources, concepts, and theories to form general rules or conclusions. For example, analysing various events or situations to come out with a set of rules or conclusions.

5. Inter-Personal:  The ability to build and maintain good relationships with others at workplaces and elsewhere.

6. Intrapersonal: The ability to clearly understand your strengths and weaknesses, what your capabilities are, what you can do and cannot do, what you like and dislike.

7. Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

8.Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

9. Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

10. Verbal Reasoning: The ability to think and reason with words; the ability to reason out ideas expressed in words.

11. Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

12. Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.

Knowledge

1. Counselling: Knowledge of how to assess, evaluate and otherwise understand human behaviour, personality, abilities, skills, knowledge, motivation, attitudes, values etc. and offer guidance and advices to people in order to help them deal with mental challenges and crisis as well as for deciding future courses of actions to make people happy.

2. Psychology: Knowledge of why and how humans behave the ways they behave. This includes understanding of mental processes and Knowledge of perception, beliefs, motives, attitudes, personality, values, interests, learning styles and abilities as well as methods to do research and understand causes of behavioural disorders and treating them.

3. Therapy: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions or disorders in humans.

Skills

1. Active Learning: Focused and continuous learning from various sources of information, observation and otherwise for application in getting work done.

2. Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, understanding the points being made by others, asking questions, etc.

3. Communication in English: Skills in communicating effectively in writing as well as verbally with others in English language or Communication in Vernacular Languages: Skills in communicating effectively in writing as well as verbally with others in a local or indigenous language such as Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, etc.

4. Critical Thinking: Skills in analysis of complex situations, using of logic and reasoning to understand the situations and take appropriate actions or make interpretations and inferences.

5. Judgment and Decision Making: Skills in considering pros and cons of various decision alternatives; considering costs and benefits; taking appropriate and suitable decisions.

6. Problem Solving: Skills in analysis and understanding of problems, evaluating various options to solve the problems and using the best option to solve the problems.

7. Reading Comprehension: Skills in understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

8. Service Orientation: Skills in or keen interest to help and assist people.

9. Writing: Skills in communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the readers.

Personality

1. You are always or mostly a soft-hearted person.

2. You always or mostly trust others.

3. You are always or mostly helpful to others.

4. You are always calm or generally remain calm in most situations.

5. You are always or mostly caring, supportive, sympathetic and kind to others.

Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles 

As an industrial-organizational psychologist, there are three major career opportunities for you, i.e., academic institutes, research agencies, organizations and companies.

1. You can start your career in research as a research assistant/executive.

2. After your master’s degree, you can be hired as an assistant consultant, assistant manager, counsellor or officer in management firms, consultancy firms, HR departments, Recruitment firms, etc.

3. Most of the universities and college will hire you as a professor at the position of junior professor or assistant professor.

Work Environment

Their working hours depend on the field they choose to work. Psychologists who work in organizations usually work at office hours though it also depends on the size of the organization. A large organization requires a lot of management in comparison to a small organization. Many psychologists focus on all organizational psychological issues which may tend their job to become hectic. Psychologists who choose to work in the academic field have fixed working hours and usually, they conduct research in their field.

Career Growth

1. If you are hired as a research associate, then you will go on to become a Doctoral Research Fellow, then Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and then Scientist in Progressive Grades. 

2. An officer/ manager/ consultant in Organizational Psychology after gaining 5-10 years of experience will become a departmental officer and then senior consultant.

3. The career growth in university and college states from the assistant professor and then associate professor, professor and professor emeritus. Professors can also get administrative positions such as Director/Dean/Vice Chancellor, etc.

Salary Offered  

1. At the entry level, when you start your career as a research assistant/ trainee, you would be earning between Rs. 15,000 to 20,000 per month. If you join as an associate professor, you would be earning anything between Rs. 30,000 to 1,00,000. As an associate psychologist, assistant consultant, assistant manager, counsellor or officer, you will be earning anything between Rs 20,000 to 1,00,000.

2. At the junior level with a work experience of 2-5 years, you would be earning anything between Rs. 25,000 to 2,00,000 per month.

3. At the middle level with an experience of 5-10 years, you would be earning anything between Rs. 50,000 to 3,00,000 per month.

4. At the senior level of over ten years of work experience, you would be earning anything between Rs. 1,00,000 to 2,50,000 per month.

Monthly Earnings In Indian Rupee 

1. Entry level: 0 - 2 years of work experience

2. Junior Level: From 1 to 12 years of work experience

3. Mid-Level: From 5 to 20+ years of work experience

4. Senior Level: From 10 to 25+ years of work experience (there could be exceptions in some high-end technical, financial, engineering, creative, management, sports, and other careers; also in the near future, people will reach these levels much faster in many careers and in some careers, these levels will have no meaning as those careers will be completely tech skill driven such as even now, there is almost no level in a Cyber Security Expert’s job)

Famous Personalities 

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Work Activities 

1. Analysing and interpreting data and information: Analysis of data and information to find facts, trends, reasons behind situations, etc.; interpretation of data to aid in decision making.

2. Assisting and caring for people: Assisting people in availing of services; taking care of people in different situations; offering help and services to others.

3. Communicating with co-workers and others: Communicating with people in writing, verbally or otherwise inside your workplace and various other people who have professional relationships with your place of work including vendors, government officials, etc. or with people at large.

4. Decision making and problem solving: Analysis of data and information; evaluation of alternative decisions and results of decisions; taking the right decisions and solving problems.

5. Getting Information and learning: Observing, hearing, reading, using computers, or otherwise obtaining information and learning from it.

6. Inspecting situations, events, and people: Inspecting situations, events and people to understand the reasons and causes for the situation or events to happen; inspecting people to understand reasons behind their behaviour and actions.

7. Providing advices and consultation to others: Giving advices or consultation to others about various issues, conceptual matters, know-hows, scientific matters, products or services.

8. Updating and using relevant knowledge: Keeping updated with the latest knowledge relevant to your fields of work and use of the relevant knowledge in getting things done.

9. Using computers for work: Using computers for day-to-day office work; using computer software for various applications in day-to-day professional work; entering data and process information; for writing.

10. Working directly with people: Working directly with people to offer them products and services, providing assistance, etc.

11. Working in a team: Working in a team of people; developing team; maintaining professional relationships among team members.