70013 - Group Processes

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students will handle knowledge on social-psychological processes underlying  work-teams with particular reference on how to handle conflicts as well as creativity goals

Course contents

In the context of the course on organizational psychology and work team  a particular enphasis will be given  to the processes uderlying  work groups.

Specifically the work group teaching units are fosussed on the following issues

Categorization and interdependence in work groups

The role of identification in work groups and organizations

The socialization to work groups.

Norms, roles and status

Leaderships' styles

Trust, productivity and conflict.

Teaching methods

It consists of an integration among the various sources of knowledge used in the course i.e., formal lectures , interactive seminars, work group activities, interviews to epistemic authorities

Assessment methods

Students who attended consistently the course  will be evaluated " in itinere" on the basis of two tasks: 1) a group presentation of an artcle from the list of those  required  for the course  and  2) an individual brief essay on the presentation given by an expert of work team in the context of the course. At the end of the course they will be required to write a brief essay on the fundamental issues of the program.

Students who did not attend the course are required to produce a paper basing it on the literature recommended for them in two hours.

Students who do not spek Italian are required to produce a paper  basing it on the English literature recommended in two hours.

Teaching tools

It consists of an integration among the various sources of knowledge used in the course i.e., formal lectures , interactive seminars, work group activities, interviews to epistemic authorities

Office hours

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