Guest Lecture Series “Industrial and Organizational Psychology”; industrial psychology

Monday (22/3) the 4th edition of the “Industrial and Organizational Psychology” Online Lecture Faculty of Psychology was held. This event is part of Guest Lecture Series events held by the Faculty of Psychology UGM until May 2021.

The event took place from 10.30 to 12.10 WIB and was attended by students of the Regular Undergraduate Psychology study program and the International Undergraduate Program (IUP) Psychology, Faculty of Psychology UGM.

Budi Mumandari, the speaker at this event, was the Vice President for Human Resources of PT British Petroleum. In this event, he shared his career journey from college to work at British Petroleum.

In her presentation Budi focused on three points of discussion, namely recognizing what British Petroleum (BP) is, what it does at British Petroleum in managing human resources in it, and what competencies are needed to be able to compete in international companies.

She doesn’t show many power point slides because he prefers to spend most of his time discussing with the participants. With that, he hopes that there will be more communicative dialogue for better understanding.

British Petroleum is an oil company from England. As a producer of several oil products, British Petroleum is not familiar to Indonesians. However, British Petroleum actually has several branch companies operating in Indonesia.

“We have approximately 64,000 workers worldwide. And we operate our company in nearly 60 countries around the world” Budi said.

For staff from Indonesia at British Petroleum there are approximately 960 people. British Petroleum also has an oil refinery in Papua. The project is called Tangguh LNG. The project employs a workforce of about 10,000 people.

there are approximately 960 staff from Indonesia alone at British Petroleum. British Petroleum also has an oil refinery in Papua. The project is called Tangguh LNG. The project employs a workforce of about 10,000 people.

As an oil company, British petroleum has a visionary point of view. British petroleum strives to be an environmentally friendly oil company. Budi explained that British Petroleum has a new vision, namely reimagining energy for people and our planet.

“What does it mean? We want to be a greener company, we want to support the Paris Agreement on Net Zero, we want to reduce carbon in our operations and production” explained Budi.

Furthermore, Budi also explained how the circulation of human resource management in British Petroleum. Budi divides it into five major parts, namely joining, performing, growing, managing, and leaving. First, joining is an entry point for prospective employees or workers into British Petroleum companies. They will take part in job selection and will be placed in a position according to their competence. Second, performing is regulating employee performance and providing rewards for workers. Third, growing, namely identifying, building and developing the skills of workers. Fourth, managing, which is managing and processing the data of each worker. And the fifth part, leaving is how the company manages the movement of workers.

At the end, Budi also plays a video containing a brief profile of the British Petroleum company. After that, it was followed by a questioning session which was very interactive. The participants were very enthusiastic to better understand how to work at an international level company.

The committee hopes that by participating in this event participants will have factual insights into world of work at the international level and how psychological scientific competence is needed in it.