| Abstract: | Presents a preliminary attempt to provide a framework for further studies, from an Iranian view, of events in the area of industrial and organizational psychology. Psychology as a subject was introduced in Iran following World War I. However, it was only after World War II that industrial psychology germinated into an independent discipline and a new profession. Still, industrial psychology was forced to remain largely outside academia, thus limiting the opportunity to educate sufficient numbers of industrial and organizational psychologists, who are now badly needed due to rapid economic development. The better developed parts of this new discipline are personnel evaluation techniques and management training programs. Academic programs in industrial psychology have greatly increased in the 1970s. As the result of research and studies in this field, some substantive problems have been identified that are basic and vital and that have to be treated scientifically in order to rally industrial psychology services in support of national development programs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
