Teaching code

4S006099

Credits

3

Coordinatore

Lorenzo Avanzi

Moodle Seminars

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide students with the notions necessary to understand how individuals interact with their work environment. In particular themes such as work-related stress and safety in workplaces will be highlighted. Furthermore, prevention and safety communication items will be presented in a sociological perspective.

Program

Psychology of work and organization. The course introduces the major theoretical approaches, to the psychosocial risk factors, and to the evaluation and the interventions on the work-related stress. The issues concern the methodology of psychosocial research, with particular regard to research in work psychology and its links to the workers’ health and safety.
Topics covered in the course will are:
First, a methodological introduction in order to introduce students to the scientific study of working behaviors and attitudes;
Second, course will focus on work-related stress as an emerging phenomenon.
In particular, the course will be divided in this way:
1. Introduction to the psychosocial research methodology:
- What is it and how to set up a research design
- Experiments, quasi-experiments, observation, case studies, archival research, survey
- The problem of measurement in psychology
- Nominal, ordinal and cardinal variables
2. Work-related stress:
- Definition of the stress process: a brief historical review
- Description of the antecedents and consequences of the stress phenomenon
- Impact of personal factors
- Role of theoretical models
- How to set up an evaluation of work-related stress
- Notes on prevention activities.

-Fraccaroli F. e Balducci C. (2011) “Stress e rischi psicosociali nelle organizzazioni” – Il Mulino (+ slides)

Examination Methods

Written exam. The exam could become oral in case of constraints due to the pandemic.

Bibliografia