Industrial Organizational Concepts

Document Type:Essay

Subject Area:Psychology

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Industrial/organizational professionals instigate measures in response to such aspects by providing perspectives for business management. Such professionals seek the optimum conditions for business operations in consideration of varying and interrelated business resources. Professionals offer guidance on selecting and implementing metrics at the workplace. This research essay will shed light on some questions such as the advantages and disadvantages of employing objective measures. Advantages and disadvantages of using objective measures as you assess factors such as performance Performance measurement is a crucial element for administering over employees. Such aspects are immeasurable objectively because they depend on supervisor observations to make conclusions (Rogelberg, 2007). Secondly, objective measurement of performance assessment is not feasible in some fields. For example, in the psychiatric health sector, accurate measurement may provide deluding information in that if the hospital management promoted health officials based on patients not complaining about symptoms, the administration would be rewarding officials who overprescribe medication (Rogelberg, 2007).

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How reliability and validity of measurements influence decisions in organizational processes such as employee selection? Reliability and validity provide the foundation for quality and usefulness of tests for organizational processes like customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, human resources recruitment, management policies, leadership, and work procedures among others. Reliability and validity provide insights into prevailing conditions at the organization, therefore, are tools necessary for corrective measures or maintenance of organizational policies or procedures that create a positive or enduring corporate atmosphere (Kelley, 1992). Qualitative employee satisfaction Qualitative employee measures come from data collected from interviews, chats, and open-ended questions. It is a cumbersome task to implement such factors into a metric system. Qualitative employee measures are utilized by the employer who seeks honesty as a crucial element considering that most employees would only provide information that the employer would like to hear.

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