Applied workplace psychology

Graduate certificate

Looking to encourage employee and team success? Discover innovative, ready-to-apply tactics rooted in scientific research through Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) online graduate certificate in applied workplace psychology.

Ask yourself this: how does your workplace currently achieve its goals? For years, the message has been that motivation and direction come from the top. As well, such progress is said to hinge on engaged, diligent leaders who orchestrate strategies and delegate tasks among a team. 

Yet, more recently, a third factor has emerged — team dynamics and the role company culture plays in fostering employee growth, meeting objectives and nurturing potential. Industrial-organizational psychology emerged around the principle that analysis of job requirements, interpersonal relationships and the work environment can drive all to perform their best.

This four-course online graduate certificate program introduces professionals in business, human resources, consulting, psychology and other fields to core industrial-organizational psychology topics. Learn to enact change from within your own organization while simultaneously expanding your own credentials. 

Missouri S&T gears this program to individuals with at least one year of professional experience. Following completion, you can apply your credits toward a master of science in industrial-organizational psychology. 

Stay ahead in your career

Missouri S&T’s graduate certificate program in applied workplace psychology suits leadership, personnel-managing and hiring professionals eyeing the next stage of their career and interested in improving organizational operations. 

A more nuanced approach emphasizing advanced research methods helps you rethink how you recruit and train workers, oversee teams and build morale:

• Understand how human behavior and thought influence workplace dynamics and culture and how to harness these patterns. 
• Learn ways you can influence organizational change from within, transform attitudes and support employee performance.
• Apply theories to real-world situations to motivate workers, increase productivity, make more sound hiring decisions, develop stronger training programs and establish work-life balance.
• Step away from a siloed, departmental mindset to discover how organizational behavior, culture, design, management and leadership intersect and influence each other.
• Build a more engaged, success-minded workforce by better understanding group dynamics and performance management and how they factor into recruitment, development and team efforts.
• Refine your own consulting and management skills to not only encourage a more productive and positive culture but to help an organization exceed its benchmarks.

Pathway to a master's

Missouri S&T’s online graduate certificate in applied workplace psychology provides a taste of how industrial-organizational psychology can influence company culture, leadership and personnel management.

If you want to go a step further to broaden your knowledge of this growing field, consider applying to Missouri S&T’s master of science in industrial-organizational psychology. You’ve demonstrated your knack for this subject matter, and now you have the opportunity to transfer your certificate’s credits toward a master’s degree.

How does this work? Missouri S&T has designed the certificate program as a gateway to a corresponding master’s degree:

• If the certificate is earned with a 3.0 GPA, GRE/GMAT scores are not required, making this approach ideal for working professionals interested in getting ahead.
• After you apply and are accepted, the 12 credit hours from your certificate count toward the master’s degree and help to fulfill certain admissions requirements.

Understand that completing the graduate certificate does not automatically guarantee admission to the master’s in industrial-organizational psychology. You must complete your application first. If you are applying to a relevant PhD program, you are still required to submit GRE/GMAT scores.