ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE RESEARCH

 

RISK MANAGEMENT DIVISION OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS-CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS

 

This research provides an opportunity for ten select BYU-I psychology majors to work closely with the Risk Management Division of the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter Day Saints to help prevent losses (Auto / Property / Worker's Compensation / Liability / Church Activity). Projects assigned to the students will be approached from a consulting/I-O perspective where the students will actually create an end product to be used in real life to mitigate risk (e.g., safety training module, reference document, actionable statistical analysis report, etc.). Some aspects of this research are typically not available until graduate school and will be noted with **.

CORE REQUIREMENTS

Weekly Meetings: Research assistants will meet weekly with the research supervisor.

 

Team Meetings: Research assistants attend team meetings to coordinate the research and address training issues, progress, and concerns. 

 

Interns will be involved in the Risk Management process of:

1. Identifying loss exposures

2. Analyzing loss exposures

3. Examining the feasibility of risk management techniques**

4. Selecting the appropriate risk management techniques**

5. Implementing the selected risk management techniques**

6. Monitoring results and revising the risk management process**

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The research requires a minimum of 3 credits (about 10 hours a week), and a maximum of 6 credits. The research also requires that you work for 2 consecutive semesters.

 

The projects will be done at BYU-Idaho; however, the intern should be willing to travel to the Church Office Building in Salt Lake City if need be.

 

Recommended prerequisites:

1. Be worthy of a temple recommend

2. Psych 302

3. Psych 378, along with any other statistical courses a plus but not required

 Limit:  10 interns per semester

Coordinator: Dr. Yohan Delton

Supervisor: Dennis Spackman (Manager of Information Resources and Quality Assurance, LDS HQ)

 

• Letters of recommendation for application to graduate school can be provided if requested, but are dependent upon individual performance during the research.