History, development and professional perspectives in work psychology; environment and safety at work; motivation and meaning; competence; psychosocial risks; personnel selection; career guidance; organizational socialization; training in organization; personnel evaluation; psychological contract and involvement; remuneration; individual and organizational empowerment; reconciliation; international management; diversity management; outplacement.
Five chapters at your choice:
3) Argentero, P., Cortese, C.G., e Piccardo, C. (2010) (a cura di). Psicologia delle risorse umane. Raffaello Cortina, Milano.
Learning Objectives - Last names A-K
Knowledge and understanding
The program of “Work Psychology” aims to offer the student an introduction to the main theories and research in work psychology to address basic issues and learn the first principles related to the design and application of interventions in this field.
Course topics will include history, development and professional perspectives in work psychology; environment and safety at work; motivation and meaning; competence; psychosocial risks; personnel selection; career guidance; organizational socialization; training in organization; personnel evaluation; psychological contract and involvement; remuneration; individual and organizational empowerment; reconciliation; international management; diversity management; outplacement.
These topics will be addressed with particular attention to aspects of methodology in work psychology with a focus on relational theory of working, in order to facilitate learning skills and expertise for differentiated interventions.
Applying knowledge and under standing
The course will provide students with the indications necessary to seek current sources and materials with which to compare, to design interventions appropriate to the request, recipients and contexts of application. Such knowledge and understanding capacities will be exerted through the learning of different tools and methods of research of the sources in relation to interventions.
Recognition of differentiated interventions with use of different techniques.
Making judgements
Particular emphasis will be given to the identification of the strengths and critical areas of different interventions in work psychology in relation to different contexts of application based on the results of the discipline research.
This autonomy will be favoured even taking into account some of the more recent contributions of work psychology.
Communication skills
The course will provide students with the knowledge and stimuli necessary to present, discuss and apply theories, models, interventions and tools in work psychology. It will also provide an opportunity for students to test themselves on these topics in specially created simulation contexts.
Learning skills
The themes and methods used in the course “Work Psychology” are aimed at promoting learning skills and also self-learning and self-updating capacity in relation to the discipline, also experimenting aspects of complexity linked to interventions and to different interaction modalities in reference to different targets.
Prerequisites - Last names A-K
None
Prerequisites - Last names L-Z
None
Teaching Methods - Last names A-K
Knowledge and understanding
- Lectures; reading of suggested research articles; autonomous research through sources.
Applying knowledge and understanding
- Individual exercises, group exercises, group work on specific themes, on different tools and on intervention methods.
Making judgments
- Autonomous bibliographic research, retrieval of international research and intervention articles in work psychology, comparative evaluation of materials with corresponding arguments.
Communication skills
- Preparation of group work to be presented in differentiated communicative situations.
Learning skills
- Facilitation of autonomy in research and selection of materials, in structuring of questions for learning and in problem solving related to the research of appropriate answers.
Further information - Last names A-K
None
Type of Assessment - Last names A-K
Knowledge and understanding
- Previous written verification composed of multiple choice questions and open-ended questions; oral interview for the examination.
Applying knowledge and understanding
- Intermediate tests in which students will present both individually and in group the analysis of exercises carried out on the different tools and methods in work psychology.
- Previous written verification and oral interview for the examination.
Making judgments
- Choice, interpretation, argumentation and evaluation of research and intervention articles related to work psychology.
- Presentation of issues related to work psychology in which students are asked to give reasons for their answers based on research results, through open-ended questions and oral questions.
Communication skills
- Presentation of individual work and group work. Simulation contexts. Oral.
Learning skills
- Evaluation of materials from autonomous research as well as evaluation of the study results in terms of evaluation of learning achieved in relation to the proposed materials of study. Recognition of differentiated modes of learning. Intermediate tests, written pre-assessment and oral interview for the examination.
Course program - Last names A-K
The program of “Work Psychology” aims to offer the student an introduction to the main theories and research in work psychology to address basic issues and learn the first principles related to the design and application of interventions in this field.
Course topics will include history, development and professional perspectives in work psychology; environment and safety at work; motivation and meaning; competence; psychosocial risks; personnel selection; career guidance; organizational socialization; training in organization; personnel evaluation; psychological contract and involvement; remuneration; individual and organizational empowerment; reconciliation; international management; diversity management; outplacement.
These topics will be addressed with particular attention to aspects of methodology in work psychology with a focus on relational theory of working, in order to facilitate learning skills and expertise for differentiated interventions.