Fireside Chat: Intro to African-Centered I-O Psychology

Have you ever asked yourself, what is African-centered Industrial-Organizational Psychology? If so, join us August 14th at 11am with Mu-Tor K. Flood, Ph.D; Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Bethune-Cookman University to learn all about it!

The following presentation will discuss the elements of a burgeoning psychological field. This new field is African-Centered Industrial-Organizational Psychology. This is all from my forth coming book “African-Centered Industrial-Organizational Psychology: Work and Organizing in the African-American Context”. The following subjects will be discussed from an African-centered I/O perspective: History of Africans and Work, Standard (European) I/O psychology, African centered I/O Psychology, Research methods and Statistics, Individual differences and assessments, Job analysis and Performance, Performance measurement, Staffing decisions, Training and Development, Motivation and Stress, Attitudes, Emotions at work, Leadership in organizations, Organizational Theory, Dynamics and Change, and Teams and finally an Ideal African-Centered Organization.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• The differences between European I/O Psychology and African-centered I/O Psychology
• How to apply African-centered I/O psychological principles to Black organizations/businesses and to diverse organizations/businesses.
• What an ideal African-centered organization would look like.