Human Behaviour in Organisations

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This course familiarizes students with various aspects of human behaviour in organisations. Questions that will be addressed during the course are: How can organisations select good employees? What can organisations do to maintain a healthy and motivated workforce? What are effective leadership styles? What does a high performance team look like? To answer these questions we will present an array of different topics from work and organisational psychology such as work stress, occupational health, emotions in organisations, leadership, personnel selection, work motivation, and teamwork. The course consists of lectures, an individual assignment and a group project in whichstudents either work on a practical consultancy project (e.g., develop a plan how to address an issue in an organization) or a research project (e.g., develop a specific idea for a field study). At the end there will be a ‘mini-conference’ in which groups present the results of their group project. This course forms an excellent introduction for the Master’s programme ‘Work and Organisational Psychology’. N.B. there will be no tutorial groups, but there will be some rooms and times made available for the group project