Changes in I/O Psyc

Kirby and Hartstone M (1998). The Australian organisational psychologist: An update. This research was used as a way of assessing the roles and changes seen in I/O in Australia since the last survey was conducted. A survey of I/O psychologists operating within Australia was sent out with questionnaire of the types of work that I/O psychologists were involved with. This was compared with earlier surveys to look at patterns of change, and potential …

…personnel. A more integrated approach involving all members of the workplace may improve I/O acceptability overall. It was suggested that a survey of the actual work that I/O psychologists within new Zealand were carrying out may be useful to find out exactly what roles they are fulfilling within New Zealand. Generally it seems that I/O needs to be better marketed within New Zealand to achieve any improvement in acceptance from business managers.