A problem I see these days with the corporate workplace is how impersonal it is becoming. Industrial psychology is a large reason for this. Performance management programs help out the weaker managers by giving them some tools they can use to manage their people, but they also get between the floor managers and their workers in a fundamental way and undermine their freedoms. The best industrial psychology (IP) can do is engender an impersonal, homogeneous, stifling bureaucracy and the worst it can do is engender an Orwellian conformal regime that stifles personal creativity. I have been in a bunch of engineering departments over the years and some of my superiors joked openly about the IP bit and made it clear we were simply connecting dots for upper management. Those were by far also the best departments in my opinion. They communicated effectively without the IP interference.