Competence Approach to the Training of Organizational Psychologists in the Context of Reforms in Higher Education

Pogodina A.V.
PhD in Psychology, Head of Management Psychology Chair, Department of Social Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0549-712X
e-mail: pogodinaav@mgppu.ru

Litvinova E.Yu.
PhD in Psychology, associate professor at the Chair of Management Psychology, Faculty of Social Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia
e-mail: elen-litvinova@ya.ru

Kharchenko M.A.
PhD in Physics and Matematics, Associate Professor, Chair of Psychology of Management, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3335-9701
e-mail: maxquail@gmail.com

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The paper describes a model of professional competences of organizational psycholo- gists developed by the authors and provides outcomes of a study carried out to verify the model. The study aimed to explore content and structural features of notions about professional competences of the organizational psychologist in high- and mid-level executives of various fields (manufacture; trading and services; education). The paper presents results of the correlation analysis of such representations in different groups of executives and argues that it is important to take into account prospective employers’ expectations and preferences regarding organizational psychologists in the training of the latter.

Keywords: organizational psychology, competence approach in higher education, professional competences, competence model of organizational psychologist

Column: Empirical Research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/sps.2016070108

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Pogodina A.V., Litvinova E.Yu., Kharchenko M.A. Competence Approach to the Training of Organizational Psychologists in the Context of Reforms in Higher Education. Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2016. Vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 108–122. doi:10.17759/sps.2016070108. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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