The Chicago School of Professional Psychology can help you take your career to the next level with a master’s degree in Industrial & Organizational Psychology with a specialization in Organizational Effectiveness. Organizational Effectiveness is one of today’s fastest growing areas of professional psychology.

Our unique and innovative master’s degree program can aid working professionals in advancing their careers and improving individual performance. The professional faculty at The Chicago School teach strategies that enable students to positively affect human behavior in the workplace. Our classes have been developed to offer tangible results.

Student Outcomes

The master’s degree in Industrial & Organizational Psychology, Organizational Effectiveness specialization program allows professionals to enhance their potential value to any organization. It will help you to identify limitations in current work processes, management approaches and team building practices, allowing you to help create a more effective workplace.

Our master’s degree in Industrial & Organizational Psychology, Organizational Effectiveness specialization program prepares the student to:

• Structure a compensation policy
• Design internally fair salary structures
• Leverage survey data to increase organizational effectiveness
• Navigating fair employment and other important labor laws

This degree program focuses on three very important areas: creating a strategic compensation policy that helps you attract and retain top talent, develop employee surveys to help measure the effectiveness of organizational improvement initiatives, and understand the role of collective bargaining in building strong, effective organizations.

This program is also offered as a graduate certificate for those not wishing to pursue a full master’s degree.

Time Commitment

We understand the full-time commitments of working professionals, and have designed and scheduled courses with this in mind. Our innovative distance learning format makes earning a master’s degree in Industrial & Organizational Psychology with a specialization in Organizational Effectiveness more convenient than ever before. Our ExCEL (Executive Career Enhancement and Leadership) programs are accelerated, flexible options for obtaining your advanced degree while balancing career demands and other obligations.

• An M.A. can be earned in as little as 20 months
• Students will take approximately 10 hours per week to complete their studies
• A certificate can be earned in as little as five months

Admission Requirements

• Completed application
• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline (official transcripts required)
• Proficiency in current computer and Internet technologies
• Current resume (five or more years of post-baccalaureate work experience is generally required; exceptions may be made after consultation with the program of study)

When Can I Start?

• Courses are offered every eight weeks.
• You may apply at any time, for any session.