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This course focuses on stress, health, and wellbeing at work. The course will provide an overview of recent research on how to create psychologically healthy workplaces. It provides students with a framework for analysing how stress, health, and wellbeing at work impact on individuals and organisations. The course also focuses on how I/O psychology can contribute to solving problems related to stress, health, and wellbeing at work. Critical thinking, relating theory to practice, and relating new concepts to old theories, as well as critical reflection and discussion, both oral and written, will be strongly emphasised.
In this course, there is a strong emphasis on how individuals can be enabled to cope with changesto working life, and how organizations and human resource personnel (such as your future selves)can use their knowledge to minimize stress and promote wellbeing at work. We will take anintegrated approach, focusing on both prevention and promotion, to advance worker wellbeing andbuild psychologically healthy workplaces, by exploring how both leaders and employees can worktowards a healthy working life.
After completion of the course you will be able to: Discuss and contrast existing theories on work stress, health, and wellbeing at workAnalyse how employee attitudes, health, and wellbeing may be affected by working conditions, management practices, and interpersonal interactions at workRelate theories on stress, health, and wellbeing at work to practical and timely phenomena Diagnose problems related to stress, health, and wellbeing at workPropose solutions to issues to stress, health, and wellbeing in working life and how these solutions can be implemented and evaluatedIdentify gaps in current knowledge and identify needs for future research and application Present in front of a group with visual aids.
Subject to approval of the Head of Department
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Anahí Van Hootegem
There is no textbook for the class. Each class meeting has a required reading list of 2-3articles/chapters/blog posts/videos/podcasts designed to guide your learning on a particular topic.Readings will often be accompanied by exercises. You will be expected to complete the readingsand exercises before our class meeting, and be prepared to discuss them with the rest of theclass. I will also ask you to find an additional piece of work that you find helpful for each topic, andpost this on the class website – this will help us compile a list of recommended and usefulreadings that you can draw on for your assignments.For inspiration, check out these resources:Institute of Organisational Psychology (NZ): https://organisationalpsychology.nz/ SIOP: https://www.siop.org/ NIOSH on Total Worker Health: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/twh/index.html CIPD on wellbeing: https://www.cipd.org/uk/
Domestic fee $1,247.00
International Postgraduate fees
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
Maximum enrolment is 30
For further information see School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing .