This programme focuses on social and psychological processes in organisations.
The Master of Organisational Psychology trains professionals to increase workplace productivity and job satisfaction in organisations and businesses. Combining business and psychology, a background in organisational psychology enhances management and organisational leadership capacity to make informed decisions and to address workplace challenges. Students in the programme study three main areas of Organisational Psychology: Organisational Behaviour, Human Resource Skills, and Research and Statistical Techniques.
The programme coordinator is Angus Kuok.
During the two years of evening course work, Master of Organisational Psychology students hold full-time student status.
- Students develop knowledge and skills to enhance organisation performance and wellbeing in workplaces
- Students explore different psychological and management theories that can be applied in work settings, including organisational behaviour and leadership, motivation, social psychology and human resources management
- Students plan and conduct research to advance knowledge and understanding of leadership, psychology, and workplace wellbeing and productivity
- Customer relations officer
- Management analyst
- Training and development manager
- Human resources specialist
- Workplace consultant
- Workplace counsellor
- Hold a bachelor degree in psychology or equivalent qualifications and work experience in a related field (preferable)
- Have strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate independent learning ability and act autonomously in planning and completing tasks
- Are involved or interested in working with people
Study plan & description of modules
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Please click on any specific module below to see its description.
(Course plan and the schedule of the courses are subject to change based on the needs of the course arrangement.)
Modules
Year 1
This course focuses on the analysis of human work behaviour at the individual, group and organizational levels. It also emphasized on some of the psychological aspects happened in organizational settings. Topics such as formation of group, group behaviour, political behavior, and organizational cultures will be discussed
This course examines how leadership is defined and how views of leadership have changed over time. Topics like the types of power, personal characteristics, interpersonal interactions, hierarchical relationships, and others will be discussed. Readings related to how leaders transform and how environmental factors can assist them to be successful leaders.
This interdisciplinary course discusses the consumer as the focus of the marketing system. Course stresses the use of knowledge about consumer behavior in marketing decisions. It examines the contributions of anthropology, sociology, psychology, strategy, and economics to the understanding of consumer buying behavior. Explores individual behavioral variables (needs, motives, perceptions, attitudes, personality, and learning) and group influences (family, social groups, culture, and business) as they affect the consumer decision-making process. Analyzes how marketing programs, especially the communications mix, can be developed to reflect a commitment to providing consumer satisfaction.
In this course, it introduces the improvement about the quality of work life, protection and pormotion of the safety, health, and well-being of workers and the families. Also, it explores the reseach in contempary industrial/organizational psychology, health psychology, and occupational health. In addition, application of researches in Organisational Psychology will be implemented.
This course review the theories of organizational socialization, focusing on how people receive training from organizations, understanding one’s job role, getting support from coworkers, as well as their perception of ones’ future in organizations. Furthermore, it also addressed their formation and changes over time in order to understand their effects and outcomes, which help to provide insights for human resource in staff selection and development.
This course focus on how people in organizations communicate with others, and how conflict and teamwork is generated within organizations, topics such as their functions, channels, process, and direction. Also, the method of negotiation within or between organizations will be addressed.
This course provides the fundamental skills and knowledge in statistics of basic organizational research. Topics cover basic descriptive and inferential statistics, including measures of central tendency, sampling, the normal distribution, hypothesis testing, t-tests for means, correlation and simple linear regression. Activities will include the use of statistical software packages to explore and analysis data and conduct a study related to organizational psychology.
In this course, it introduces some assessment tools which can be applied in organizational setting. Topics like personality, motivation, socializing, job satisfaction, commitment and work engagement, interviewing skills and techniques will be covered. In addition, application of the assessments in researches of Organisational Psychology will be implemented.
This course is an introduction to basic concepts and procedures in the conduct and evaluation of psychological research, it introduces the use of scientific methods in the formulation and solution of psychological related problems. It emphasizes the process of designing, conducting, analysing, interpreting, and applying of research methods as a means to support for making decisions.
Year 2
This course is designed as the final assessment of how the students can apply the theories (e.g., attitudes, job satisfaction, commitment, engagement, personality and values, perception and decision making, motivation, group behaviour, communication, leadership, conflict, political behavior, and organizational cultures) in organizational psychology and conduct a study in their chosen disciplines. In addition, the skills in research methods and data analysis will also be implemented in their studies.
