Organizational Structures and Processes: Conceptual Models, Assessment and Diagnosis
1
2024-2025
02013915
Psychology
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
4.0
Compulsory
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Basic knowledge on Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology
Teaching Methods
Lectures. Debates. Individual and group activities (e.g, case studies, analysis / discussion of texts, simulations, role-playing, exercises based on measurement instruments).
Learning Outcomes
Identify / characterize basic components of the organizational structure, describe the impact of its main determinants, and identify the organizational configurations proposed by Mintzberg
- Explain the genesis and the development of a group; identify types and functions of groups in organizations and characterize group functioning models identifying input variables, mediators / moderators (processes / emergent states) and output variables, and discussing, based on literature, their interrelationships
- Indicate and discuss critically the leadership approaches
- Define conflict and conflict types; recognize the stages of the conflict process and identify conflict handling strategies and their potential effects; recognize the role of third party intervention and identify third party intervention types and styles
- Recognize measurement instruments of organizational processes
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. Organizational Structure and Organizational Configurations
- Basic components and main determinants of the organizational structure
- Mintzberg’s Organizational Configurations
2. Organizational Processes
2.1. Groups in Organizations
- The group as a system: models of group functioning and its components
- Input variables, mediators / moderators and group results: some structural and context variables; processes and emergent states; effectiveness
- Group Development: approaches and perspectives
- Types and functions of groups in organizations
2.2. Power and Conflict
- Conflict and conflict management: types of conflict; conflict as a process; conflict handling strategies and their potential effects; intervention of a third party
2.3. Leadership
- Leadership approaches: traits perspective, approaches focused on leadership styles, situational and contingent approaches, models of charismatic leadership and transformational leadership; "post-heroic" approaches
Head Lecturer(s)
Paulo Renato Martins Ribeiro Silva Lourenço
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Frequency: 50.0%
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Bibliography
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Mintzberg, H.(1983).Structure in fives: Designing Effective Organizations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Ramos-Villagrasa, P.J., Marques-Quinteiro, P., Navarro, J. & Rico, R.(2017).Teams as Complex Adaptive Systems: Reviewing 17 Years of Research, Small Group Research, Article first published online.
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