Course Listing For MSSP Courses

This course focuses on the Industrial and Organizational Psychology professional's level of awareness of intrapersonal and interpersonal factors that interface with organizational strategy from a human capital perspective. Cohort Courses Must be Taken in Order

This course focuses on the study of Industrial and Organizational Psychology from a practitioner perspective by covering the major applied and theoretical practices common in the field. Students explore organizational strategy of systems, performance, and human capital management.

In this course, students will study basic aspects of psychological anthropology that includes the interaction of cultural and related behaviors and how they manifest in organizations. Social processes, emotions, motivation, and other psychological process affect the workplace environment. Strategies for adjusting to individual and social issues will be explored and practiced. Cohort Courses Must be Taken in Order

In this course, students will analyze the workplace from a social psychology perspective. This includes employee interactions, attitudes, motivation, and other psychological processes that affect the employee environment.

This course expands the Industrial and Organizational Psychology professional’s use of human capital and intellectual capital to facilitate the emergence of value-added firm elements. Emphasis is placed on designing the work environment to promote creativity, interaction, and adaptive problem solving. Cohort Courses Must be Taken in Order

This course orients students to strategic approaches of job analysis and performance management that increase organizational productivity. Students will learn analytical methods of job analysis, performance measurement, performance management, and how to utilize information gathered from these processes.

This course develops deep insights into how soft organizational forms of capital, e.g., reputation, leadership, processes, procedures, routines, culture, and client/customer/partner relationships combine to maximize organizational value-creation and relationships that facilitate development of unit-level and organizational-level human capital assets which lead to the development of sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. Cohort Courses Must be Taken in Order

This course develops deep insights into how various aspects of social capital such as reputation, leadership, organizational policies, culture, and relationships combine to maximize organizational value utilizing these intangible assets.

An important part of organizational health concerns a focus on the external environment. This course will explore how competition, governmental involvement, natural stimuli, social and cultural forces, demographic forces, and technological innovations impact the organization and the Industrial and Organizational psychologist's role. Cohort Courses Must be Taken in Order

This course will explore how organizational interventions can be designed to mitigate risks for companies and implement change. The course will outline how to identify crucial factors that impact organizations, techniques used to assess needs, and application of an organizational development plan.

This baseline course in statistics and analytics will provide the student with essential skills to evaluate what to measure, how to obtain reliable data, perform routine data analysis to make effective decisions, and communicate findings to stakeholders in organizations. Introduction to probability and statistics as applied to psychological data. Tests for means, variances, correlation, ANOVA, and regression. Cohort Courses Must be Taken in Order

This baseline course in statistics will provide the student with essential skills to perform various data analyses, interpret data output, and communicate findings to stakeholders in organizations. Introduction to probability, means, variances, correlation, ANOVA, and regression applied to psychological data.

This course prepares students to utilize and interpret predictive analytics for recruiting talent and evaluation of performance to add value to organizations. Cohort Courses Must be Taken in Order

This course prepares students to assess, utilize and interpret selection measurements that are designed to identify the best-fit candidates while also reducing any potential adverse impacts on applicants.

This course addresses the skills required to manage systems from a talent perspective as well as a performance perspective through the use of talent, performance and learning management systems. Assessments will be evaluated, normed, and used to maximize career development and succession planning. Cohort Courses Must be Taken in Order

This course addresses how to design psychometrics to support talent management and engagement within an organization. The topics of test development, reliability, validity, and data interpretation will be covered.

This course focuses on effective organizational design in both traditional and innovative organizations, with special emphasis on innovative organizational forms that can provide strategic advantage. Cohort Courses Must be Taken in Order

This course focuses on developing organizational processes and policies to shape attitudes, motivation, knowledge, and behavior intended to enhance satisfaction, motivation, effort, and goal setting at work. Cohort Courses Must be Taken in Order

Supervised practicum experience with applied projects in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Projects will vary on a semester basis. Topics relevant to applied projects such as proposal writing and presentation skills will also be covered. Cohort Courses Must be Taken in Order

This course explores the multiple sources of internal and external sources of data for in-depth industrial and organizational psychology analysis of strategic, operational, and value-creating issues within an organization. Additionally, the issues of data reliability and validity as well as the basics of data visualization are addressed in this course. Concepts such as problem-solving, judging, and evidenced-based decision making are introduced.

This course explores modeling of data or organizational variable to assist decision makers in making evidenced-based decisions. Parametric and non-parametric modeling techniques are developed as well as data-presentation for decision making techniques.

Supervised practicum experience with applied projects in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology. Projects will vary on a term basis and are dependent on faculty approval of student proposals. Topics relevant to applied projects such as proposal writing and presentation skills will also be covered.

Methods of gaining organizational insights, heuristics, and trends are explored to make effective investigation of organizational issues. The idea of design thinking, overall use of analytics, qualitative sense-making, and low observation data techniques are used to craft value-laden organizational insights for decision makers.

An advanced course on the statistical concepts and techniques of regression. Students will expand their application of statistical output by interpreting and applying results to relevant organizational problems.

This course will address key foundational components and human resource strategies that will provide effective and innovative processes that will allow organizations to acquire, develop, and retain talent. Also explored are the intricate challenges involved in systems related to workforce development, risk management, employee relations, and high performance work systems.

This course will further develop the knowledge and application of statistics to relevant organizational data. In addition, students will be required to purpose their own research study that is meaningful to the current workplace.

This course focuses on the alignment of human capital productivity with strategic organizational outcomes using well-formulated strategies for organizational learning. Students will design a learning program to tackle associated business problems, thereby creating an actionable business plan for learning.

This course is designed to provide students with the principles and elements of the growing organizational leadership discipline. Leadership theories and behaviors are examined in the context of the modern organization.

This concentration is geared for students who intend to subsequently pursue a Doctoral degree; the thesis preparation course requires students to develop a large but focused research project, which emerges from the student’s research interests. Students learn the process and procedures for developing a research proposal during a kickoff residency and the remainder of the course culminates in approval of a research proposal.

Using the Thesis Preparation course as a springboard, the student initiates will convene an advisory committee, prepares the research project and initiates it. Data is obtained and analyzed for new insights.

The student will interpret the data obtained in the Thesis Writing I course, draw research insights and conclusions and communicates findings to others. The course culminates in a public Thesis Statement presentation, which articulates the scope and scale of the research project, demonstrates its relevance to an external community or public, and identifies the members of the thesis committee.

This course refines the strategic Industrial/Organizational skills students have learned by completing an applied research project that is applicable to organizations. Students will outline a problem and method to study the topic within a chosen company or other relevant scenarios upon approval from the faculty.