Organizational Psychology

Course Description

Individual characteristics of workers. Leadership, planning and organizing. Motivation and motivators. Typical problems in work organizations, strategies of problem solving. Group processes, communication, team work.Negotiating, conflict solving. Decision making strategies. Organizational changes, cross-cultural differences, organizational climate.

General Competencies

Basic knowledge in the field of organizational psychology. Introduction to basics of team work, leadership and motivation.

Learning Outcomes

  1. recoginizes the role of organizational psychology in work organization
  2. distinguish individual characteristics crucial for proffesion and work place
  3. demonstrate the skill of management and team leadership
  4. apply methods of decision making in work settings
  5. give example of professional trainig
  6. describe cross-cultural differences in work organiztions

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

students will be informed about knowledge regarding organizational psychology and the ways of implementing it to their work lives

Exams

mid-term exam, final exam, seminars, homeworks

Consultations

on request

Other

role play questionnaires and tests application

Seminars

WP in my future profession

Other

tests and questionnaires

Grading Method

Continuous Assessment Exam
Type Threshold Percent of Grade Threshold Percent of Grade
Homeworks 0 % 15 % 0 % 15 %
Class participation 0 % 10 % 0 % 10 %
Attendance 0 % 5 % 0 % 5 %
Mid Term Exam: Written 0 % 30 % 0 %
Final Exam: Written 0 % 40 %
Exam: Written 0 % 70 %

Week by Week Schedule

  1. definition of organizational psychology (OP) and practice
  2. employing - procedure of personnel recruitment, human resource management
  3. personality traits and temperament in context of work organization (WO)
  4. Attitudes and values of the individual and politics of WO
  5. Process of learning and professional training in WO
  6. Emotions and emotion management in WO
  7. Perception and decision making in WO
  8. Mid-term exam
  9. Leadership and management
  10. Work values and motivation
  11. job satisfaction
  12. Group performance
  13. Organizational changes, cross-cultural differences
  14. Organizational climate
  15. final exam

Study Programmes

University graduate
Computer Engineering (profile)
Humanistic or Social Course (1. semester) (3. semester)
Computer Science (profile)
Humanistic or Social Course (1. semester) (3. semester)
Control Engineering and Automation (profile)
Humanistic or Social Course (1. semester) (3. semester)
Electrical Engineering Systems and Technologies (profile)
Humanistic or Social Course (1. semester) (3. semester)
Electrical Power Engineering (profile)
Humanistic or Social Course (1. semester) (3. semester)
Electronic and Computer Engineering (profile)
Humanistic or Social Course (1. semester) (3. semester)
Electronics (profile)
Humanistic or Social Course (1. semester) (3. semester)
Information Processing (profile)
Humanistic or Social Course (1. semester) (3. semester)
Software Engineering and Information Systems (profile)
Humanistic or Social Course (1. semester) (3. semester)
Telecommunication and Informatics (profile)
Humanistic or Social Course (1. semester) (3. semester)
Wireless Technologies (profile)
Humanistic or Social Course (1. semester) (3. semester)

Literature

Duncan Kitchin (2002.), An Introduction to Organisational Behaviour for Managers and Engineers: A Group and Multicultural Approach, Butterworth Heinemann
Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge, Timothy Campbell (2010.), Organizational Behavior, Pearson Education, Limited
Dijana Čičin-Šain (2010.), Osnove menadžmenta, Visoka škola za turistički menadžment

Lecturers

Asst. Prof.
Tihana Brkljačić

For students

General

ID 46419
  Winter semester
2 ECTS
L0 English Level
L1 e-Learning
30 Lectures
0 Exercises
0 Laboratory exercises
0 Project laboratory

Grading System

90 Excellent
79 Very Good
64 Good
50 Acceptable