Will AI Replace Industrial-Organizational Psychologists?

Provide advice on best practices and implementation for selection.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Develop and implement employee selection or placement programs.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Analyze data, using statistical methods and applications, to evaluate the outcomes and effectiveness of workplace programs.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Develop interview techniques, rating scales, and psychological tests used to assess skills, abilities, and interests for the purpose of employee selection, placement, or promotion.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Observe and interview workers to obtain information about the physical, mental, and educational requirements of jobs, as well as information about aspects such as job satisfaction.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Facilitate organizational development and change.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Analyze job requirements and content to establish criteria for classification, selection, training, and other related personnel functions.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Advise management concerning personnel, managerial, and marketing policies and practices and their potential effects on organizational effectiveness and efficiency.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Conduct presentations on research findings for clients or at research meetings.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Coach senior executives and managers on leadership and performance.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Conduct individual assessments, including interpreting measures and providing feedback for selection, placement, or promotion.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Train clients to administer human resources functions, including testing, selection, and performance management.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Assess employee performance.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Identify training and development needs.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Formulate and implement training programs, applying principles of learning and individual differences.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Study organizational effectiveness, productivity, and efficiency, including the nature of workplace supervision and leadership.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Provide expert testimony in employment lawsuits.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Conduct research studies of physical work environments, organizational structures, communication systems, group interactions, morale, or motivation to assess organizational functioning.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Develop new business by contacting potential clients, making sales presentations, and writing proposals.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Write reports on research findings and implications to contribute to general knowledge or to suggest potential changes in organizational functioning.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Write articles, white papers, or reports to share research findings and educate others.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Review research literature to remain current on psychological science issues.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Counsel workers about job and career-related issues.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Participate in mediation and dispute resolution.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Study consumers' reactions to new products and package designs, and to advertising efforts, using surveys and tests.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.