산업경영의 심리학적 고찰

Abstract

Since the turn of present century psychologists began to work in the industrial situation. There were urgent need in the industry to promote the productivity of individual worker to cut down the production costs, and psychological studies was proved to make great contributions to the efficient industrial management. Nowadays, industrial psychology is one of the most productive branches of psychology, and industrial psychologists as specialists are taking sub-stential roles in industrial sittiation. They are working not only in management operated within organization such as selection, placement, personnel management, counseling, job training, production control, and so forth, but also in the public relations such as advertisement, selling, market surveying and etc.

In Korea, however, no systematic approach in industrial psychology has yet been made, since her industry is too young to need psychological knowledge in management, but it will be well expected that someday psychologists have to work with industrial matters in Korea. Therefore, it would be profitable to review the development of industrial psychology and to tap with the industrial situations of Korea in the psychological standpoint.