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Overview

This topic explores how a person's behaviour is shaped by the interaction of individual factors such as personality with social context (including group memberships, identity, and leadership). This course explores how the social environment shapes the attitudes, emotion, and behaviour of both individuals and groups, and applies this to a … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

Completing this topic in social and organisational psychology provides valuable knowledge and skills that can be applied to improve relationships, enhance teamwork, and promote organisational effectiveness. It equips you with a deeper understanding of human behaviour, which can be used to make better decisions and create positive social and professional environments. This topic will also challenge some historically individualistic approaches to organisational psychology, and help students develop more socially dynamic perspectives informed by social psychological research and diverse perspectives, and translate these into practical skills like change management, communication to stakeholders, and policy change.

This topic aims to produce graduates who:

  • Are able to understand how human behaviour is shaped by person factors (e.g. individual differences, personality, skills, motivation, emotions, attributions) interacting with social-environmental factors (e.g. the influence of culture, groups, leaders, norms, identity and group processes), particularly within organisations
  • Are able to investigate organisational challenges (e.g. conflict, harassment, motivation and performance, change) using theory, data, and workplace-based inquiry methods and conceptualise solutions that can be implemented and evaluated
  • Are reflexive as leaders, team members and followers: Are able to reflect on their (and others) values, culture, sources of knowledge, decision-making processes, biases, and behaviours, that then feed forward into transformation of their own practices
  • Are aware of diverse cultural knowledge and practices as they relate to workplace issues and able to be responsive to the perspectives and experiences of others

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Formulate a change management approach that takes into account the person X environment interaction in shaping human behaviour
2.
Practice personal reflexivity in response to stakeholder engagement that demonstrates cultural awareness, responsiveness and transformation of practice
3.
Critique existing organisational approaches in light of social psychological theory, evidence, and stakeholder feedback
4.
Create different types of communications suited to organisations

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