Business psychology individual assignment
Total Marks: 15
General instructions
1. The assignment should be sent only as a Word Document.
2. Students must follow use Time New Roman font size12 Spacing 1.5
3. Total number of pages for this assignment is between 4 and 5 pages (excluding the cover
page).
4. Students are free to write their opinions in the discussion of the chosen option, or use
examples from real life, and draw figures or tables to highlight any special points if they want to.
5. The reference list should include at least 10 references in the total, (a minimum of 4 Academic
references should be included).
Understand the role of psychology in the assessment of individual differences in the
workplace
Individuals have many traits that enable assessing of individual differences. In reference to a
diverse Organization of your choice, the differences in attitude and the differences in interests
can be the individual differences of the people.
Differences in interests: The differences in interests are basically the motivation factor to the
employees achieving the targets, earlier the motivation factor or push in achieving the tasks were
strict rules and dominating supervision. The people already working in the chosen organization
were addicted to the directive management style and they were not habitual of the self reliant
system or no control over them. In this respect, they will miss the targets as and when they will
be dealing the transactions alone and hence the management should gradually develop the
process to make the organization efficient in their working style with the effective leadership
style to motivate the employees and make them more responsible. The company now requires
people that have the right mindset to enables them to adapt to the changing needs of the new
scenario of the company. So, what does the company requires people to do?
Differences in attitudes: The differences in attitudes are the psyche in the form of positive and
negative turns towards and approach, hence in this context the organization employees will resist
to change with the take over and will complaint the missed deliveries as a result of the taking
over organization. This will not solve the purpose of the management and they need to
comprehensively develop the effective approach in making the proper parameters to make the
availability of the resources in limit to make them feel the importance of the operations and
hence reacting accordingly.
What do they should be focusing on? What are the very important parameter for the
chosen organization to implement organizational change?
In this task, you need to discuss on the role of psychology in assessment of the differences
that exist in various individuals at the chosen organization. It will even give an insight on
the amount of changes that will be handled and associated with the changing culture in a
chosen organization with diverse employees. Describe two kinds of assessable individual
differences and explain how these might be used in choosing workers for the new teams at
the diverse organization you have chosen.
Hints: Individuals have many traits that enable assessing of individual differences. In reference
to the chosen organization, the differences in attitude and the differences in interests can be the
individual differences of the people.
Choose any one or two types of measures (scientific tools or measures) you studied in other
business Courses ex. Myers-Briggs) of individual difference and make justified
recommendations for how these might be used in making decisions regarding the size and
composition of the new teams at the chosen organization.
Plagiarism: Copy paste, and plagiarism is not allowed, if your report shows more than 10 %, marks will
be deducted accordingly.
