Organizational Behaviour and Wellbeing at WorkLaajuus (5 cr)

Learning objectives

Students who have completed this course or acquired similar skills will be able to:
- Understand the basics of occupational psychology
- Understand organizations’ changing operating environments
- Understand the role individual well-being at work and how it could be integrated to team- and organizational-level behaviour
- Identify topical themes of well-being at work and apply them in personal and workplace well-being

Contents

- The basics of organizational behaviour
- The basics of occupational psychology (from stress to work engagement)
- Psychological capital and psychological recovery
- Cognitive ergonomics and technology-mediated work
- Changing working life and future work

Starting level and linkage with other courses

No entry-level conditions

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

Depending on the period, the course is possible to choose from contact, blended or virtual implementation. Please, check the course implementation description.

Recognition of Prior Learning: In case that you wish demonstrate your prior learning instead of taking the course, please, contact a responsible teacher.

Assessment criteria - grade 1

When the implementation type of the course is CONTACT, ONLINE or BLENDED it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25 %, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50 %, the course is failed.

Student
- Identify the basic of organizational behaviour
- Identify some of the basics of occupational psychology
- Awareness of the importance individual well-being at work
- Knows the various actors related to well-being at work in the workplace
- Is able to retrieve research data
- Shows minimal application of source material and reflection in tasks

Assessment criteria - grade 3

Student
Knows the basic of organizational behaviour
Knows the basics of work occupational psychology
- Can identify key factors affecting well-being at organizations
- Knows the meaning well-being at work and is able to apply the knowledge acquired to promote general well-being at the organizations
- Can describe the consideration of psychological capital in their organizations
- Is able to apply for current research information
- Participates in joint knowledge building
- Is able to apply the knowledge acquired to promote well-being at the organizations
- Is able to apply generally source material in tasks

Assessment criteria - grade 5

Student
- Understand the economic importance of occupational psychology
- Is able to apply psychological capital at work
- Is able to develop actively promote their organizational well-being
- Is able to utilize current research information
- Actively participates in joint knowledge-building
- Demonstrate excellent application of source material and use quality sources in tasks

Learning materials

Material defined by the teacher in Moodle.

Further information

Learning takes place in the characters of exploratory learning tasks, independent study and group discussions.
The course requires strong self-study skills, smooth knowledge retrieval and keeping on schedule.