Sub – field of industrial psychology

The other sub – field of industrial psychology closely related to personnel psychology, but not part of it, is organizational psychology. It deals with the total functioning of an organization. It is particularly concerned with such topics as leadership, employee motivation, work group dynamics, communication patterns and organization design and its effectiveness. It is a relatively, new filed which has come up as a result of significant changes that have taken place in industry since the end of Second World War. One such significant change is the emergence of very large industrial organizations, which have newer implications for psychology because, the perceptions, attitudes, motivation and interpersonal relations among the employees working under them are affected by the organizational structure and processes. It is aimed at the study of these organizations as organizational processes.