Business psychology is defined as the use of clinical psychology to examine, interpret, diagnose, and treat a variety of challenges facing the business community. Business psychology is helpful to study behavioral strengths and weaknesses, future development, and career options. Employers can turn to business psychologists to gain insights on how to deal with employees who are over controlling, under empowering, abrasive, self-centered, disorganized, angry or hostile, a poor listener, a perfectionist, rigid, authoritarian, timid, distrustful or easily threatened. Business Psychologist professionals are equipped with the skills and tools to effectively promote changes in individual behavior and can provide a hypothesis on how these changes can affect the workplace.
Masters programs in business psychology combines applied psychology and human resource management methodologies to explore how psychology can be a positive tool for change in the workplace. The curriculum explores theoretical and analytical skills, as well as practical business psychology skills in areas such as team building, decision making, facilitation and organizational diagnostics. Courses provide students with an understanding and skills of cultural differences, business psychology, the management of human resources in the private and public sector under complex, dynamic and competitive conditions, and the formulation of cost-effective solutions to operational human resource challenges. Topics include Organizational Analysis; Team Work for Effective Organizations; Managing Human Resource; Conflict Resolution: Negotiation; Management of Competency/Skill Development; Facilitated Decision Making, and a research dissertation. Prerequisites include an undergraduate degree and possibly a minimum GPA. Graduates often become human resource practitioners and advisors.
