Psychology of Organisations

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures. Individual and group exercises.

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to provide basic notions about the Organization, the Organizational Psychology and the role and action of the Organizational Psychologist. At the end of the course the students should be able to:

- Identify, delimit and critically analyze the specificity of organizational psychology and the role of the psychologist in organizations;

- Define organization, indicate its structural elements and some of the most relevant processes;

- Identify levels of analysis and intervention and discuss models and approaches of knowledge management, motivation and job satisfaction and, also, communication in organizations.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Organizational Psychology: introduction

- Origins and development

- The context of the practice of organizational psychology

- The psychologist of/in organizations

2. The organization:

- What it is.

- What it does.

- How does it do it (people, structures, processes and results)

3. Levels of analysis and intervention

- Knowledge Management

- Communication in organizations

- Motivation and satisfaction at work.

Head Lecturer(s)

Leonor Maria Gonçalves Pacheco Pais

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Two midterm exams: 100.0%

Bibliography

Cardoso, L., Gomes, A. D., & Rebelo, T. (2005). Para uma conceptualização e operacionalização da gestão do conhecimento. Psychologica, 38, 23-44.

Harris, T., & Nelson, M.D. (2019).Applied Organizational Communication:Theory and Practice in a Global Environment (4th Ed).New York:Routledge.

Levy, P. (2017).Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Understanding the Workplace(5th Ed.).Gordonsville,VA:Macmillan Learning.

Luthans, F., Luthans, B., & Luthans, K. (2015).Organizational behavior: An evidence-based approach(13th Ed).Charlotte, North Carolina:IAP-Information Age Publishing.

Pais, L. (2014). Gestão do conhecimento (pp. 193-208). In Siqueira, M. (Org.), Medidas do comportamento organizacional. Ferramentas de diagnóstico e de gestão. Porto Alegre: Artmed.

Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2017). Organizational Behavior. 17th Ed. Harlow: Pearson.

Truxillo, D., Bauer, T., & Erdogan, B. (2016). Psychology and Work:Perspectives on Industrial and Organizational Psychology. NY:Routledge.