Psychology of Organisations

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures. Individual and group exercises.

Learning Outcomes

This uc aims to provide basic knowledge about the Organization, the Psychology of Organizations (PO) and the role and action of the Organizational Psychologist. In the end 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 about knowledge management, motivation and job satisfaction and 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)

Carla Maria Santos Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Frequency: 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. (2008).Applied Organizational Communication:Theory and Practice in a Global Environment(3rd Ed).New York, NY:Taylor & Francis

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., Judge, T., & Campbell, T. (2017).Organizational Behaviour (2nd Ed). UK:Pearson

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