Personal Statement: Interest in Organizational Psychology Studies

This personal statement outlines the author's strong interest in pursuing a Master's degree in Organizational Psychology. The author's motivation stems from a desire to contribute to a better world by focusing on people and ensuring inclusivity. Drawing upon diverse work experiences, the author expresses a keen awareness of workplace frustrations, inequities, and the importance of job satisfaction. The statement details a personal goal to bridge the gap between how people feel about their work and how they actually feel, while aligning individual needs with company objectives. The author's fascination with human behavior and the complex nature of the human mind, as well as a belief in the significance of addressing internal conflicts in organizations, further fuel their interest. The author concludes by expressing their desire to master the understanding of people's happiness, feelings, and frustrations to assist them in their professional lives. The statement also references several key academic sources that inform the author's perspective on the field.

Name:
PERSONAL STATEMENT
With the help of this personal statement, I would like to express my personal interest
in studying organizational psychology. I want to study organizational psychology because it
is related to my dream as well as ambitions related to contribute to making our world a better
place. Based on ( Maisel , 2013), I want to focus on people, while never letting anyone feel
excluded from society. Here, I am writing this personal statement to convey how studying
organizational psychology fits in with my current as well as future career and interests.
Besides, I hope to get into the programme of organizational psychology so that I can work for
society.
During the past, I have worked into several jobs in the field of academic and non-
academic. Thus, I am quite aware of the frustration of squandered effort, the perceived
inequities in rewards systems which affect the organizational growth largely. I have felt the
lack of job satisfaction which is also my motivation for studying organizational psychology
so that I can help other people. However, I have achieved the triumph of excellent
performance, intrinsic job satisfaction, and the peach of mind which accompanies work well-
designed yet there were so many things which could be improved for my overall growth. In
this context, based on (De dreu & Gelfand, 2009), my personal goal of studying
Organizational Psychology (OP) is to minimize the margin existing amid how
people could feel about their work, and how people do feel about their work; while
assimilating their company as well as the individual’s needs.
Furthermore, my diverse work experience made me realize that I should help
organizational people to show their strengths while working in diversity. Based on (Nelson &
Quick, 2013), I believe that time and experience are invaluable and thereby they evolved my
motive for studying psychology within an organizational context. Based on (Gelfand, Leslie,
Keller, & de Dreu, 2012), my opinions and beliefs compelled me to appreciate the need for
goal orientation, as well as enabled me to experience the triumphs and frustrations of this
professional world.
Apart from this, since my school time, I have been fascinated by organizational
psychology comprising human history and human psychology. I consider that human
psychology is all about human behaviour and hence by learning about human behaviour I can
help people to conquer their professional world. Moreover, I want to study organizational

psychology because I find nothing more interesting than the enigmatic and complex nature of
an individual’s mind (Gelfand, Leslie, Keller, & de Dreu, 2012). In addition to that, based on
(Huczynski, Buchanan, & Huczynski, 2013), I believe that there are so many internal
conflicts which organizational people go through in daily life which can be effectively
resolved with the help of studying organizational psychology.
In a nutshell, I would like to say that my name is X and here I am applying for MSc
organizational psychology. The field of organizational psychology aroused my key interest
since I was reading about a competition evaluating the knowledge of organizational
psychology amid college students. Since then, I decided to study organizational psychology
in future so that I can master in knowing people’s happiness, feelings, mind-set and
frustration in order to help them while living their everyday professional life.
References
Maisel , E. (2013). 10 Tips for Emotional Healing. Retrieved 12 15, 2018, from
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rethinking-mental-health/201309/10-tips-
emotional-healing
De dreu, C., & Gelfand, M. (2009). The psychology of conflict and conflict management in
organizations (eds. ed.). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Gelfand, M., Leslie, L., Keller, K., & de Dreu, C. (2012). Conflict cultures in organizations: How
leaders shape conflict cultures and their organizational-level consequences. Journal of
Applied Psychology, 97(6), 1131.
Huczynski, A., Buchanan, D., & Huczynski, A. (2013). Organizational behaviour. London: Pearson.
Nelson, D., & Quick, J. (2013). Organizational behaviour: Science, the real world, and you. OH:
Cengage.