ABSTRACT
Many topics in work and organizational psychology relate to behaviour of the individual, such as selection, performance assessment, designing a career plan, support and advice in case of difficulties. The domain of work and organizational psychology can be characterized as the surface of a triangle in which the angular points are formed by the behaviour of people, their work tasks, and the work organization, and the mutual relations are also paid attention to. The domain of work and organizational psychology furthermore comprises various levels of analysis. In applied research, and in industrial and organizational psychology, a practical issue to be resolved therefore plays a role in the foreground or in the background. Work and organizational psychologists often make productive use of knowledge and insights from sociology and economics, and vice versa. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
