There’s a new movement called Organizational Psychology. It’s about using psychology to make sure you hire the right people, develop the people you have, and understand employee engagement. Sounds a lot like what L&D departments do, right? That’s the point Clark Quinn ponders in a recent Learnlets blog post.
Is organizational psychology coming to take over learning and development? Is L&D a subset of organizational psychology? Or are we all just using different terms to promote the need for aligning how our organizations work with how our brains work?
There definitely seems to be some overlap there, but organizational psychology also focuses on things that happen before any training happens (interview techniques, tracking retention to ensure those techniques are resulting in the right hires, etc) and also long-term company culture and employee engagement in the work, not just the learning materials.
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