About this course
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
Learning outcomes
After the successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
- Apply work and organizational psychological models, theories and principles in order to optimize the human component at work;
- Develop evidence-based solutions, drawing from the latest scientific advancements in organizational psychology, to address complex people-related problems within organizational settings;
- Develop a thorough comprehension of high-quality scientific outputs on contemporary organizational psychology literature;
- Formulate a comprehendible managerial report with practical solutions based on the diagnosis of a complex human process related problem at work; and
- Conduct appropriate statistical analyses to diagnose and track human behavior at work.
Prior knowledge
You must meet the following requirements
- Registered for a degree programme other than
- HBO-TOP Applied Physics, Pre-Master
Resources
- 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
Additional information
- More infoCoursepage on website of Eindhoven University of Technology
- Contact a coordinator
- CreditsECTS 5
- Levelbachelor
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Offering(s)
Start date
2 September 2024
- Ends27 October 2024
- Term *Block 1
- LocationEindhoven
- Instruction languageEnglish
Course is currently runningStart date
11 November 2024
- Ends19 January 2025
- Term *Block 2
- LocationEindhoven
- Instruction languageEnglish
Enrolment open
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