Advanced Course in Work Psychology

Recommended Prerequisites

Não aplicável.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, oral presentations by students, guided discussion, reports, case studies, documents analysis.

Learning Outcomes

Main objectives

 To provide students with:

 - Theoretical knowledge to enable them to understand and analyze the organizational level, the impact they have on the world of work and on their representations, the recent social changes.

 - Solid theoretical knowledge that can justify the intervention of the work and organizations psychologist in the context of the new forms of work and its meaning.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Recent changes at work and in their representations

2. Motivation and work reward systems

3. Social justice in the field of work

4. Values ​​at work

5. Diversity Management in the workplace

Head Lecturer(s)

Joaquim Manuel Pires Valentim

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Type A examination - Exam: 50.0%
Type B examination (Literature review and empirical studies) : 50.0%

Final
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Caetano, A, Tavares, S., & Reis, T.(2003). Valores do trabalho em Portugal e na União Europeia. In J. Vala, M. V. Cabral & A. Ramos(Orgs). Valores sociais: mudanças e contrastes em Portugal e na Europa (430-455)

Denissen, A.(2010).The right tools for the job: constructing gender meanings and identities in the male-dominated building trades. Human Relations,63(7), 1051-1069.

European Commission (2007).European handbook on equality data. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

Holman, D., Wall, T. D., Clegg, C. W., Sparrow, P., & Howard, A. (Eds.)(2005).The essentials of new workplace. A guide to the human impact of modern working practices. Chichester: John Wiley.

Sennet, R.(2007).A corrosão do carácter: as consequências pessoais do trabalho no novo capitalismo.

Stone, R. J. (2002).Human resource management (4th ed.). Sidney: John Wiley& Sons.

Valentim, J. P., &Helkama, K.(2011).Justiça social: pressupostos e temas organizacionais (321-352). In A. D. Gomes (Ed.),Psicologia das organizações, do trabalho e dos recursos humanos.