I/O Psychological Perspectives In The Film Monsters, Inc.

Industrial/Organizational psychologists pursue to enhance organizations such as workplaces to function more smoothly. I/O psychologists find themselves working with a significant range of topics ranging from organizational culture to job analysis. In this essay, we will be analyzing a few topics that I/O psychologists focus on, in the popular film Monsters, Inc. Monsters Inc. is a comical animated film regarding factory working monsters, who scare sleeping children in order to power their city. Surprisingly, the film contains amazing examples as to how much difference a I/O psychologists can make in a workplace. We will be discussing the following topics including safety, abuse of power, employee motivation, and employee training.
Safety is

factory. His job alongside other scarers, is to enter various children’s bedrooms and frighten them as much as they can, in order to receive power in exchange for the child’s screams. The factory takes an excessive amount of safety precautions especially around the foreign children. One must not touch the children because their touch can be fatal, nor should they touch any of their belongings. However, one day after George had just walked out of his final door, his coworker noticed a child’s sock on George’s back. Immediately, he gasped and yelled, “2319” (Docter & Unkrich, 2001). Immediately everyone panicked and ran away from George, one monster is seen running towards a sizable red emergency button and pressed it. In a matter of seconds, about thirty swat like officers with the letters CDA(Child Detection Agency) broke in the factory. They ran towards George, tackled him down, and removed the small sock from his back. Once removed, they placed the sock on the floor and placed a circular plate over it. The plate was actually a small bomb used to completely vanish the child’s sock. Instantly, after the sock was bombed, everyone let out a sigh of relief. However, without any warning, the CDA officers grabbed George, placed a similar like shower drape over him and completely shaved all of his hair off in a matter of seconds. This scene here depicted how the company correctly handled its safety protocol, however it also