INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

also called occupational psychology application of the concepts and methods of experimental, clinical, and social psychology to industry. The primary concern of industrial psychology is with the basic relations in industry between worker and machine and the organization. Industrial psychology was first developed in the United States in the early 1900s and has come to be applied, usually through personnel and office administrations, to industrial management in industries in other parts of the world, particularly in those countries where a concern has developed for the systematic and scientific examination of the problems of workers in industry.