organizational psychology

British  

noun

1. the study of the structure of an organization and of the ways in which the people in it interact, usually undertaken in order to improve the organization

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Example Sentences

The danger is that these platitudes ignore human and organizational psychology, the real thoughts buried in the workplace.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

She quit her job, found a new one at a legal assistance organization and eventually went to grad school to focus on organizational psychology.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2024

“There has been a big, big fight about this,” says Klaus J. Templer, an organizational psychology consultant formerly of the Singapore University of Social Sciences.

From Scientific American • Jul. 24, 2023

“He told me I was bragging,” said Balcombe, who has a doctorate in organizational psychology and has served on the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce for 15 years.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2021

She graduated from Princeton and received a master’s in social organizational psychology from Columbia.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2020