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Assignment:
Identify one workplace issue that interests you (e.g., work-life balance, workplace violence, social justice at work, talent development, etc.), and identify two areas of concentration from the list provided below that you believe are useful avenues for exploring potential solutions to this workplace issue or challenge.
Selection and placement
Developing tests
Validating tests
Analyzing job content
Identifying management potential
Defending tests against legal challenge
Training and development
Identifying training and development needs
Forming and implementing technical and managerial training programs
Evaluating training effectiveness
Career planning
Organizational development
Analyzing organizational structure
Maximizing satisfaction and effectiveness of employees
Facilitating organizational change
Performance measurement
Developing measures of performance
Measuring the economic benefit of performance
Introducing performance evaluation systems
Quality of work life
Identifying factors associated with job satisfaction
Reducing stress in the workplace
Redesigning jobs to make them more meaningful
Engineering psychology
Designing work environments
Optimizing person-machine
Address the following questions in your text box submission.
1. What is the workplace issue and why do you believe it is important?
2. Provide a real-life example of how this issue has affected your life or the lives of others.
3. What are TWO concentration areas that you believe can shed light on this workplace challenge? Write a short statement describing how each of these concentrations may either help society better understand the issue or improve the individual and/or organization experience at work.