Psychology - focus on personal psychology Master of Science at SRH Hochschule Heidelberg

Focus on personnel psychology

Personal psychology is a part of industrial and organizational psychology or business psychology. She focuses on the experience and behavior of people around her workplace. Personal psychologists diagnose individual behaviors and experiences, influence them through psychological interventions and thus contribute to the success of both the individual and the entire organization. Personnel psychology primarily deals with the topics of personnel search, selection, development, evaluation, management and release. Psychologists support human resource management with their specialist knowledge and work closely with labor lawyers, business economists and human resources experts.

Contents, goals and course of study

Psychology (M.Sc.)

In our Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Psychology, students are prepared for independent work as a psychologist in research and application. For this purpose, we impart to our students in-depth scientific and methodological knowledge (applied research methods, data analysis and evaluation) as well as expanded knowledge in psychodiagnostics (test construction and expert opinion). In addition, specific professional and research qualifications are imparted. The completion of the master's program is also a good prerequisite for a doctorate. This means that the master's degree obtained is a general qualification that allows it to flow into very different fields of work.

Course contents in the focus on personnel:

• recruitment
• personnel selection
• Personalbeurteilung
• human resource development
• Personnel psychological interventions
• Creation of personnel reports
• Corporate Health Management
• Employee assistance programs

Career, prospects

Personnel psychologists are qualified for a wide range of activities in personnel work:

• Management consultancy
• Strategy and personnel management
• Eignungsdiagnostik
• personnel selection
• Human resource management: personnel assessment and personnel development
• Change management, organizational development
• coaching
• Team development, mentoring, moderation
• Intercultural management

Employment as a personnel psychologist is possible in companies in the private sector as well as in public institutions. In addition, educational institutions and consulting companies hire personnel psychologists. Due to the growing need for qualifications in personnel psychology, work in research and teaching is also possible.