Preparing Undergraduate Psychology Students for Careers in Business

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo J. Carducci ◽  
William C. Deeds ◽  
John W. Jones ◽  
Donald M. Moretti ◽  
Jeffrey G. Reed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Psychology Majors ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
And Training

As a means of increasing their career opportunities, psychology majors can prepare themselves for business careers in areas such as marketing, human resources administration, and training and development. This article identifies some important skills for psychologists working in the business field and describes educational programs and curricular strategies for acquiring those skills.

Curriculum Needs: Life Preparation for Undergraduate Psychology Majors

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. W. Buckalew ◽  
H. H. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Training ◽  
Community Resource ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Academic Curriculum ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Psychology Majors ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
Printed Materials ◽  
Development And Management

The desirability of informing and developing psychology majors beyond the traditional academic curriculum was noted, with a perspective on life preparation. The content and conduct of a senior level psychology seminar for undergraduate majors was introduced. Suggested topics included career opportunities in psychology, alternative careers, graduate training, personal and fiscal development and management, resumes and correspondence, ethics, and problems and selected topics in psychology. Appreciable use of community resource persons and American Psychological Association's printed materials was stressed.

An Animal Rights Attitude Survey of Undergraduate Psychology Students

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Vigorito
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Animal Research ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
College Course ◽  
Psychology Majors ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
Rights Issues

An animal rights attitude survey of 46 statements on various issues related to animal rights was given to 112 freshmen who were near the end of their first college course in introductory psychology and to 63 junior and senior psychology majors. A factor analysis yielded a multidimensional structure with attitudes toward animal research, nonresearch, environment, and evolution as factors. Beginning psychology students had a more negative attitude toward animal research than did psychology majors; however, psychology majors displayed a more positive attitude toward the environment and toward animal rights issues not involving animal research.

A Critical Analysis of Pakistan International Airline's Human Resource Management Practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Tansif Ur Rehman ◽  
Rehmat Khatoon
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Recruitment And Selection ◽  
And Training

Many human resource (HR) practices are ineffective in many state-owned firms because they are not implemented as they should be. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is a semi-government organization. The dilemma lies in the fact that PIA's human resources management practices are responsible for its downfall. This research aims to examine PIA's human resources management practices, mainly recruitment and selection, compensation and benefts, and training and development. Primary data was collected through questionnaires from 96 employees of the head offce in Karachi (Pakistan). F-test was used to check the overall relationship of PIA performance (fnancial and non-fnancial) with recruitment and selection, compensation and benefts, and training and development practices at PIA. The fndings revealed that from PIA employees' perception, there is a positive relationship between PIA training and development practices with the performance of PIA (fnancial and non-fnancial). In contrast, there is a negative relationship between recruitment and selection and compensation and benefts practices of PIA with PIA's performance (fnancial and nonfnancial). Moreover, this study recommends that PIA decrease its recruitment and selection practices and compensation and benefts practices to increase its performance (fnancial and non-fnancial). PIA should focus more on its training and development practices of existing employees to enhance its performance (fnancial and non-fnancial aspects).

Embedding Career Issues in Advanced Psychology Major Courses

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane S. Halonen ◽  
Dana S. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Career Preparation ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Capstone Courses ◽  
Psychology Majors ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
Psychology Major ◽  
New Strategies

Despite the popularity of the psychology major, complaints regularly arise about the value of majoring in psychology. This article reviews the workforce advantages that accrue to successful psychology students and encourages new strategies for emphasizing the professional development goal in the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major (2013). Recommendations include infusing career preparation in advanced classes, designing career-focused capstone courses, and conducting a climate check on department support for fostering realistic and appropriate career aspirations in undergraduate psychology majors.

scholarly journals Leadership Initiative to Attain Business Sustainability: Reorienting Strategies to Meet the Needs of Globalization

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-233
Author(s):  
Perwez xx Hashmi ◽  
Nayeem ul Hassan Ansari ◽  
Ahsanullah Ahsanullah
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Business Sustainability ◽  
Multiple Regression Models ◽  
And Training

The research sought to identify the leadership initiative to attain business sustainability by integrating advance technology and capable human resources. While studying the performance of organizations in global needs, leads to creation of strong, skilled and competent leadership has ability to optimize measurable outcomes by using existing resources. The objective is to create awareness across the industries for transformation of conventional and traditional practice to high fidelity technology and systems and training and development of  human resource to meet fast growing challenges. A quantitative technique was used to analyze the three factors leadership, technology and human resources skills are the mandatory strength for organizational effectiveness. A convenient sample was used to collect primary data through direct interview, The data enable to apply multiple regression models to be specified the correlation among the variables The results reflected several modalities as leadership role to envision and adopt new and relevance technology to boost the outcomes and develop employees’ capacity have positive relationship with firm performance. Recommendation was made to develop leadership profound skills and valuable insights regarding integration of new technology and enhance human capital, to achieve sustainable economic dynamism.

Traditional and New Approaches to Career Preparation Through Coursework

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie J. Ciarocco
Keyword(s):  
Career Preparation ◽  
Psychology Programs ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Psychology Majors ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
And Training ◽  
Training Faculty

Traditional career preparation courses provide students with a variety of benefits. Students taking these courses report a better understanding of psychology-related careers, less indecision about their future careers, and are more knowledgeable about themselves in relation to careers. Yet only 37% of undergraduate psychology programs offer formal career preparation through the curriculum. Given the lack of experience and training faculty have on career preparation issues, they may be uncomfortable developing such courses. This article addresses considerations one should make when developing a career preparation course for undergraduate psychology majors as well as potential topics and assignments for the course. It also outlines how to place career preparation within the major using modules when career preparation courses are not available.

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