PSY-3038 Well-being at the workplace II - 5 stp

This course showcases well-being at work from a positive work and organizational psychology perspective. Taking a multilevel perspective, we focus on well-being intervention at the person, interindividual, and organizational level. After having introduced basic concept related to intervention research, we are shedding light on the following aspects:

• Job crafting at the person- and team level
• Recovery interventions
• Team training
• Organizational change

We will draw on theoretical and empirical research to discuss the preparation, implementation, and evaluation of interventions in an organizational setting.

Successful completion of the course will lead to the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge:

Students will learn to reflect on

• interventions in the work context as well as the psychosocial well-being of employees
• apply specialized insight regarding job analysis

Skills:

Students will develop in their skills to

• analyze and deal critically with scientific evidence and use it to structure and formulate scholarly arguments and derive applications
• conduct a job analysis
• develop an independent, limited job intervention (including an evaluation) under supervision and in accordance with applicable norms for research ethics
• write professionally

General competence

Students will have developed skills that are transferable to other courses (and future work), that is the ability to

• apply their knowledge and skills in new areas in order to carry out an advanced project

The teaching methods include the following:

• Lecture
• Group work
• Casework
• Discussions
• Training techniques (e.g., moderation, instruction, feedback)