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He is currently affiliated as courtesy professor of psychology at the university of south florida and a visiting professor of psychology at the university of southampton in the uk dr bernstein chairs the program committee of the national institute on the teaching of psychology nitop and is the founder of the american psychological society . Organizational psychology is a discipline interested in how the relationships among employees affect those employees and the performance of a business this includes studying worker satisfaction motivation and commitment this field also studies management leadership and organizational culture as well as how an organizations structures . Industrial organizational i o psychology figure m2 subfields of industrial organizational psychol ogy the domain of i o psychology can be divided into three specialized areas of interest personnel psy chology organizational psychology and human factors psychology web link m1 society for industrial and organizational psychology siop. The specialty of industrial organizational psychology addresses issues of recruitment selection and placement training and development performance measurement workplace motivation and reward systems quality of work life structure of work and human factors organizational development and consumer behavior skills and procedures utilized. Although the distinction is a bit arbitrary these tasks correspond to a traditional distinction between industrial or personnel psychology eg task analysis employee selection training and organizational psychology eg leadership group dynamics organizational change that emerged as a result of the historical development of