Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2502443 Psychology | OB | 3 | 2 |
There are no strict prerequisites for studying "Psychology of Organizations". However, students are recommended to have knowledge about subjects such as Social Psychology, Groups Dynamics and Work Psychology.
Psychology of Organizacions is a subject taught in the second semester of the third year of the Psychology Degree. Its main aim is to introduce students in the world of organizations in the 21st Century.
Objectives:
- This subject provides students with a general description of the basic characteristics of modern organizations.
-This subject offers a list of the main topics, approaches and applications in Psychology of Organizations.
-This subject analysis the suppositions and the propositions of the most important theories in the discipline.
-This subject reflects on the theoretical and research limitations of the discipline.
This subject is structured into the following units:
1. Introduction: Why is it so interesting to study organizations?
2. Role Theory and Organizations
3. The phenomenon of leadership in organizations
4. Communication and organizations
5. Relationships of power
6. Conflict in organizations
7. Culture and anthropology of organizations
8. Gender and organizations
9. Subjectivity and organizations
This subject includes two different types of activities: a set of lectures, linked to the content of the subject and a series of work sessions carried out in small groups and made up of by combinations of activities such as: seminars (reading and discussion of previously selected texts), workshops and presentation of lines of research, projection and discussion of audio-visual materials, etc.
“N.B. The proposed teaching and assessment methodologies may experience some modifications as a result of the restrictions on face-to-face learning imposed by the health authorities. The teaching staff will use the Moodle classroom or the usual communication channel to specify whether the different directed and assessment activities are to be carried out on site or online, as instructed by the Faculty”.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
D1. Lectures | 13.5 | 0.54 | 3, 7, 5, 17, 15, 16 |
D2. Group work | 22 | 0.88 | 1, 6, 8, 9, 2, 17, 15, 16, 12, 13 |
Type: Supervised | |||
S1. Individual Assessment | 1 | 0.04 | 4, 17, 16, 13, 14 |
S2. Case analysis in moodle | 2.5 | 0.1 | 7, 17, 16, 12, 13 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
A1. Bibliography search | 14 | 0.56 | 16, 13, 14, 18 |
A2. Essays | 18 | 0.72 | 4, 10, 17, 15, 16, 20 |
A3. Reading texts | 22 | 0.88 | 3, 7, 16, 12 |
A4. Analysis of data | 25 | 1 | 1, 8, 16, 11, 13 |
A5. Collecting data in organizations | 30 | 1.2 | 6, 9, 15, 16, 14, 19 |
Assessable activities are as follows:
1.Participation (30%). It would last from the week 5 until the 13.
2. Group work. (40%). It would be deliverd through moodle the week 12
3. A test (30%). It would be carried out at the end of the semester.
Student are considered to have passed the subject when the sum of their marks in the different assessable activities is greater or equal to 5.
Students are considered not assessable when they have given learning evidences with a weight lower than 4 points.
Students are considered assessable but not to have passed the subject when they do not obtain a grade of 5.
Students can be reassessed if their grade is 3.5. The reassessment will be a global text of the whole subject and its mark will be the final mark of the subject.
No unique final synthesis test for students who enrole for the second time or more is anticipated.
THE GENERAL ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES OF THE FACULTY CAN BE CONSULTED AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: https://www.uab.cat/web/estudiar/graus/graus/avaluacions-1345722525858.html
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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EV1. Participation | 30% | 0 | 0 | 1, 17, 15, 16, 12, 18 |
EV2. Group work | 40% | 0 | 0 | 4, 10, 6, 7, 5, 8, 9, 2, 17, 16, 20, 13, 14, 19 |
EV3. Test | 30% | 2 | 0.08 | 3, 6, 11 |
All the books are introductions to the topics refered in this subject. However, the reference handbook in the classes is:
Tirado, F.; Gálvez, A. y Baleriola,E. (2017). Las organizaciones en el siglo XXI. Un enfoque psicosocial y político. Barcelona: Editorial UOC.
Anderson, N., Ones, D.S. y Viswesvaran, C. (Eds.), (2001). Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology (Vols. 1 y 2). London: Sage.
Brown, S. D y Lent, R. W. (Eds.). (2005). Career development and counseling: putting theory and research to work. Hoboken N.J.: John Wiley and Sons.
Cooper, G. L. (Ed.). (2000). Classics in management thought. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Denison, D. R. (1996). What is the difference between Organizational Culture and Organizational Climate? A native's point of view on a decade of paradigm wars. Academy of Management Review, 21(3), 619-654.
Grey, C. (2005). A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about studying organizations. London: Sage.
Hatch, M. (2006). Organization theory: modern, symbolic, and postmodern perspectives (2da ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
Jex, S.M. (2002). Organizational Psychology a Scientist-Practitioner Approach (2da ed.). New York: Wiley.
Mintzberg, H. (1993). Structures in fives. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
Peiró, J. M. (1991). Psicología de la organización (Vols. 1 y 2). Madrid: UNED.
Perrow, C. (1973). The short and glorious history of organizational theory. Organizational Dynamics, 2(1), 3-15.
Quijano de Arana, S. D. (1993). La psicología social en las organizaciones: fundamentos. Barcelona: PPU.
Rodríguez, A. (1992). Psicología de las organizaciones: teoría y método. Barcelona: PPU.
Rodríguez, A. (Coord.), (1998). Introducción a la psicología del trabajo y de las organizaciones. Madrid: Pirámide.
Rodríguez, A. (Coord.), (2003). Psicología de las organizaciones. Barcelona: Editorial UOC.
Tirado, F.; Gálvez, A. y Baleriola,E. (2017). Las organizacionesen el siglo XXI. Un enfoque psicosocial y político. Barcelona: Editorial UOC.
Tirado, F.; Baleriola, E. y Gálvez, A. (2017). Critical Management Studies. Hacia unas organizaciones más éticas y sostenibles. Barcelona: Editorial UOC.
Web links
European Associaton of Work and Organizational Psychology:http://www.eawop.org/web/
European Network of Work and Organizational Psychologists:http://www.enop.ee/
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology:http://www.siop.org/