Alert for students
Online availability offered in 2024
Overview
Topic availabilities
Tuition pattern
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