Module BUSI50815: MANAGERIAL PSYCHOLOGY (DL)

Department: Business School (Business)

BUSI50815: MANAGERIAL PSYCHOLOGY (DL)

Tied To

• N1D217: Business Administration (Finance) (Distance Learning) (For students entering before August 2007) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2011-2012 for details)
• N1D314: Business Administration (Distance Learning) (For students entering before August 2007) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2011-2012 for details)
• N1D317: Business Administration (Distance Learning) (For students entering before August 2007) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2011-2012 for details)

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• In today’s business environment, where projects are increasingly done in teams and almost all business is cooperative, psychology has become an important management tool. This Elective explores managerial psychology, an area of applied psychology that engages in the systematic study of management behaviour in organisational settings. Adopting a broadly evolutionary perspective, the nature of the management role is examined in depth, together with all those individual, interpersonal and environmental factors that may enhance or impede individual performance, efficiency and job satisfaction. Whilst one outcome of the elective is that participants will come to better understand themselves in the roles of both manager and ‘managed’, the primary goal is to illustrate how a grounded understanding of human behaviour can contribute to the development of a more effective managerial style.

Content

• Psychology and Management
• Motivating People
• Attitudes and Job Satisfaction
• Personality and its Measurement
• Learning
• Leaders and Leadership
• The Psychology of Careers
• The Psychology of Stress

Learning Outcomes

• Understand individual behaviour in management situations and the role of applied psychology as a managerial tool.

• Be able to analyse and interpret a range of managerial styles, together with individual and group responses to those managerial styles.
• Have acquired the skills needed to design and implement managerial psychology research projects.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• The module is delivered in discrete Units. These are designed to enable the learning outcomes to be achieved through a combination of specially written material, directed reading, reflection through self-assessed assignments and guidance for further reading. Module tutors provide feedback on formative work and are available for individual consultation as necessary (by email, telephone, post or fax).
• The written assignment will test students’ understanding of relevant concepts and their ability to apply and interpret what they have learned to the analysis of a particular issue in depth.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

1 Compulsory Tutor Assessed Assignment, (1,500 words).