APSY619-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016

Boundaryless Work and Uncertain Working Conditions

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2016
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 22 May 2016

Description

This course introduces two related areas of I/O psychology which only recently have received extensive research attention. It provides students with a framework for analysing how these phenomena affect individuals and organizations, and how organizational practitioners may understand and deal with these phenomena. Critical thinking, relation of theory to practice, of new concepts to old theories, as well as reflection, both oral and written, will be strongly emphasized.

Learning Outcomes

  • After completion of the course the students are expected to be able to:
  • Discuss and contrast existing theories on boundaryless work and uncertain working conditions
  • Analyse how employee attitudes and behaviours may be affected by boundaryless work and uncertainty
  • Relate boundaryless work and uncertainty to other aspects of I/O psychology and reflect on their interrelatedness
  • Relate boundaryless work and uncertainty to practical phenomena and reflect on how these aspects can be applied in practice
  • Discuss what boundaryless work and uncertainty represents and critically reflect on these phenomena in working life
  • Identify gaps in current knowledge and identify needs for future research

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Katharina Naswall

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 1 - Review 11 Mar 2016 20%
Assignment 2 - Current topic 30 Mar 2016 30%
Assignment 3 - Literature review and research proposal 03 Jun 2016 45%
Poster presentation of assignment 3 5%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Allvin, Michael. et al; Work Without Boundaries : Psychological Perspectives on the New Working Life ; John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

Day, A., Kelloway, E.K., & Hurrell, Jr. J; Workplace wellbeing: How to build psychologically healthy workplace ; Wiley, 2014.

Naswall, Katharina. , Hellgren, Johnny, Sverke, Magnus; The individual in the changing working life ; Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Specific texts will be assigned to each lecture and posted on Learn.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $944.00

* 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.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 30

For further information see Psychology .

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