Organizational Psychology?

I read an article calling for organizational psychology and the things these folks do for companies.  And, interestingly, many of the tasks seem like things that I’ve been calling for L&D to do. So now I have to ask what’s the relationship between these two areas?

My background is psychology, specifically the cognitive kind (ok more cog sci than just psych, but still).  And so I’ve been pushing the idea of doing a cognitive analysis of organizations, and incorporating new understandings of cognition in how we run our companies, and more. The point being that we need to align how our organizations operate with how our brains do.

In a sense, then, I’m arguing for a psychological approach to organizations. This includes best principles across the board: working together, learning alone, etc. Yet, I’m typically talking to and about Learning & Development (even when I argue it needs a revolution).  Am I missing the forest for the trees?

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