作为心理学的一个子领域，I / O心理学的内容非常广泛。它的范围从对任务执行很重要的基本人类能力的研究到对管理问题解决行为的调查，再到对工作动机如何受到组织特征与组织外部特征的影响的考虑。由于该领域不能在几段中描述，因此，建议新移民如果可能的话修一两个本科课程和/或仔细阅读该领域的许多教科书和《心理学年鉴》的相关章节。在I / O心理学中，您可以选择专门研究（例如）人员心理学，培训和发展，个人评估，工作动机，小组和组织过程或心理测评等领域。可以通过咨询心理学，工业/组织心理学高级研讨班，人格评估，社会心理
The content of I/O psychology as a subfield of psychology is very broad. It ranges from the study of basic human abilities important for task performance to the investigation of managerial problem-solving behavior to a consideration of how work motivation is influenced by characteristics of the organization versus characteristics outside the organization. Since the field cannot be described in a few paragraphs, the newcomer is advised to take an undergraduate course or two if possible and/or peruse a number of textbooks in the field and relevant chapters in the Annual Review of Psychology. Within I/O psychology, you may choose to specialize in such areas (among others) as personnel psychology, training and development, individual assessment, work motivation, group and organizational processes, or psychometrics. Such specialization may be achieved with courses in counseling psychology, advanced seminars in industrial/organizational psychology, personality assessment, social psychology, cognition, psychometrics, statistics, speech communications, sociology, industrial relations, marketing, political science, or management.