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

The following year, Ms. Smith, a native of Columbia, Md., earned a master’s degree in industrial organizational psychology, and Mr. Huffer, who is from Garland, Texas, received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

Those include accident reports, National Transportation Safety Board investigations, organizational psychology, gardening, water ponds, applied economics, and nontraditional building methods like cob housing, rammed-earth and adobe.

From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2019