Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module the student will:
1. Understand the motivation process and how it links with job design.
2. Explain how job satisfaction and attitudes affect work
3. Assess the benefits to the organisation of the use of teams.
4. Explain styles of leaders and their impact on organisations.
5. Understand organisational culture and its impact on workers.
6. Assess how organisation's manage health and wellbeing at work.
7. Understand how psychology drives human resource practices.

Indicative Module Content:

1. History and overview of Work and Organisational Psychology
2. Process and content theories of motivation at work and job design.
3. Job attitudes and work
4. Teams and Teamwork - Theory and Practice
5. Health and wellbeing in the workplace
6. Leadership
7. Organisational Culture and Climate

Student Effort Type	Hours
Lectures	20
Seminar (or Webinar)	2
Autonomous Student Learning	103
Total	125

Learning Requirements:

This is an introductory course. No prior learning is required.

Learning Recommendations:

This is an introductory course. No prior learning is required.

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  

Description	Timing		Component Scale		% of Final Grade
Assignment: Online assignment - two 1000 word essays to be completed from list of essays provides and submitted via Brightspace	Coursework (End of Trimester)	n/a	Graded	Yes	60
Essay: 1500 word essay	Week 6	n/a	Standard conversion grade scale 40%	Yes	40

 

Resit In	Terminal Exam
Spring	Yes - 2 Hour

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

Once grading completed, individual feedback will be emailed to students. Feedback provided within 20 days of submission date. Group feedback will be provided at the subsequent lecture.

Recommended Texts:

Truxillo, Donald M., Bauer, Talya N., & Erdogan, Berrin (2021). An Introduction to Industrial & Organizational Psychology, 2nd Edn. Routledge.

Conte, Jeffrey M., & Landy, Frank J. (2019). Work in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Industrial & Organizational Psychology, 6th Edn. John Wiley & Sons.

Online text
Fraccaroli, Franco, and Sverke, Magnus (2017). An Introduction to Work and Organizational Psychology: An International Perspective, Third Edition. John Wiley & Sons.
Online ISBN:9781119168058 |DOI:10.1002/9781119168058
Truxillo, Donald M., Bauer, Talya N., & Erdogan, B. (2021). Psychology and Work: Perspectives on Industrial & Organizational Psychology. New York: Routledge.
Online ISBN:978-1-315-88204-8

ebooks
Conte, Jeffery M., & Landy, Frank J. (2019). Work in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 6th Edition. John Wiley & Sons.
ISBN: 978-1-119-49344-0
Spector, Paul E. (2021). Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Research and Practice, 8th edition. John Wiley & Sons.
EISBN: 1119299047
EISBN-13:9781119299042

Other Sources:

Bratton, John (2021). Work & Organizational Behaviour, 8th Edn. Red Globe Press (Macmillan International Higher Education).
McKenna, Eugene (2020). Business Psychology & Organizational Behaviour, 6th Edn. .Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Riggio, Ronald, & Johnson, Stefanie K. (2022). Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology, 8th Edn. New York: Taylor & Francis
Spector, Paul (2021). Industrial & Organizational Psychology: Research & Practice. 8th Edn. Wiley.
Truxillo, Donald, Bauer, Talya N., & Erdogan, Berrin. (2021). Psychology & Work: Perspectives in Industrial & Organizational Psychology, 2nd Edn. New York: Routledge.

Any introductory text on work & organisational psychology, organizational behaviour, occupational psychology or industrial & organisational psychology will cover the material on this course. Earlier editions of the above will also cover course material.

Name	Role
Ms Ruth Mullally	Lecturer / Co-Lecturer

Autumn
Lecture	Offering 1	Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12	Mon 12:00 - 13:50