“Some Perspectives for Industrial Psychology”, 1974 (; similar):
Discusses several matters deemed important to industrial psychologists.
It is suggested that, given the intangible character of psychological variables, it would be fruitful to obtain the ideas of ordinary people about the variables that are important in occupational behavior. Industrial psychologists ought to study organizations as “individuals” rather than just regarding them as social environments.
The use of simulated organizations (eg. mathematical models) would facilitate such investigations. Industrial psychologists should consider the differences among people to be quantitative rather than qualitative. Consequently, they should not devote their time to investigating differences among arbitrary types of people, but rather should direct their attention to the quantitative variables (eg. social factors) which underlie those qualitatively different categories.
The role and nature of theory and the impermanence of facts which emerge from empirical studies are also discussed.