Organisational behaviour for industrial engineering

In 2024-2025 this course is scheduled 2 times Q1 Timeslot B (Cohort ≤ 2022) and Q2, Timeslot E (Cohort 2023)

Major topics covered:

• Top-down and bottom up job design
• Work times and recovery from work
• Safety and behavioral risk management at work
• Work-Life Balance
• Vitality and Occupational Health
• Individual and team work performance (task, adaptive, contextual creative)
• Designing work-place interventions
• Digitization and future world-of-work (incl Work 4.0; Robotics; Smart Industries)
• Methods: Case Study research; Regressions; Mediation/Moderation; Longitudinal data analytics

After the successful completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Apply work and organizational psychological models, theories and principles in order to optimize the human component at work;
2. Develop evidence-based solutions, drawing from the latest scientific advancements in organizational psychology, to address complex people-related problems within organizational settings;
3. Develop a thorough comprehension of high-quality scientific outputs on contemporary organizational psychology literature;
4. Formulate a comprehendible managerial report with practical solutions based on the diagnosis of a complex human process related problem at work; and
5. Conduct appropriate statistical analyses to diagnose and track human behavior at work.

You must meet the following requirements

• Registered for a degree programme other than
• HBO-TOP Applied Physics, Pre-Master

• Articles from scientific journals, chapters from peer-reviewed books, online resources, video lectures, lecture slides and a text book.
• Peeters, M.C.W., De Jonge, J., & Taris, T., (2014/2022). An introduction to contemporary work psychology. Chichester: Wiley