Advanced Course in Work Psychology

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures, oral presentations by students, guided discussion and debates, reports, field work, and document analysis.

Learning Outcomes

Main goals

 To provide students with solid theoretical knowledge that enable them to:

 - understand and analyze the impact recent societal changes have on the world of work, their representations, and values

- understanding, evaluate and intervening in the issues of diversity and inclusion in the work, taking into account the challenges for the promotion of equality, and well-being they arises in European current societies

 

Skills to develop:

 - To know and to be able to discuss the psychological, organizational and social implications of the new forms of work and their representations

 - To know the importance of social justice in work and to be able to propose and evaluate interventions on this domain

 - To be able to consider and analyze the importance of values and social representations of work in intervention proposals

 - To be able to discuss and to propose interventions in the issues of diversity, inequality and inclusion in the workplace.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Recent changes in work and in their representations: meanings of work; changes in social representations of work and their anchoring

2. Social justice in work: theoretical foundations about distributive justice and procedural justice; their organizational implications

 4. Social values and work values. Continuity, changes and diversity in the evolution of data from European Social Survey

 5. Diversity, inequalities and inclusion in work in European current societies

Head Lecturer(s)

Joaquim Manuel Pires Valentim

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 25.0%
Report of a seminar or field trip: 25.0%
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Synthesis work: 25.0%

Bibliography

Duque, E. (2013). Work values in Portuguese society and in Europe. In A. Marques, C. Gonçalves, & L. Veloso (Eds.), Trabalho, organizações e profissões (pp. 81-98). Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia.

European Commission (2012). New skills and jobs in Europe. Luxembourg: EU.

International Labour Organisation (2016). Global Wage Report 2016/17: Wage inequality in the workplace. Geneva: ILO. 

International Labour Organisation (2017). World Employment and Social Outlook 2017: Sustainable enterprises and jobs: Formal enterprises and decent work. Geneva: ILO. 

Negura, L. & Lavoie, C. (2016). Le travail représenté: diversité, dynamism et specificité de sa réalité. In Lo Monaco, G., Delouvée, S., & Rateau, P. (Eds.) (2016). Les représentations sociales (pp. 299-311). Bruxelles: de Boeck.

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