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PERFORMANCE AND WELL-BEING AT WORK Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Psychology of Work and Organisations
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Objectives
Contents - Fundamental Concepts on Performance and Work Wellbeing
- Organizations and their psychology
- Theoretical models of psychosocial risk
- Assessing stress and psychosocial risk factors in organizations
- Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
- Predicting performance: from Performance appraisal to feedback and improvement methods.
Extended Syllabus Module 1: Introduction to Work Performance and Well-Being.
- Basic concepts of performance and well-being in the workplace.
- History and development of the field of study.
- Research and evaluation methods.
Module 2: Organizations and their psychology.
- What is an organization
- Studying organizations
- Paradigms for the study of organizations
Module 3 Theoretical models of psychosocial risk
- The importance of theoretical models
- Psychological well-being and the "vitamin" effect of psychosocial risk factors
- Job demands and possibilities for personal control
- Imbalance between effort made and reward gained
- The resource conservation model
Module 4. Assessing stress and psychosocial risk factors in organizations
- Assessment as a step in the psychosocial risk factor management journey
- Regulatory framework, indications and guidelines
- The preliminary and in-depth assessment
Module 5. Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
- The different types of preventive activities
- Primary prevention
- Secondary prevention
- Tertiary prevention
Module 6: Predicting performance
- Resources and barriers to performance
- From task performance to context-oriented performance
- The basics of behavior versus productivity
Module 7. Performance and evaluation
- Organizations and evaluation practices
- Performance Evaluation and Feedback
- Performance appraisal systems: task, contextual and adaptive performance
- Feedback and improvement methods.
- Toward an integrated model of performance.
Recommended Bibliography 1) Stress e rischi psicosociali nelle organizzazioni. Linee operative per la diagnosi e il controllo dello stress da lavoro. Cristian Balducci, Franco Fraccaroli. Il Mulino, 2022.
2) Valutare le prestazioni. Come gestire e migliorare la performance lavorativa. Marco Giovanni Mariani. Il Mulino, 2011.
Teaching Methods This is a 54 taught class. There will be space for both theoretical and practical
lessons, including case analysis, with a mix of different didactic tools, in
line with the blended learning approach.
There will be also the possibility to assess students' learning with
practical group training sessions related to the different theoretical
themes under analysis.
Even if not compulsory, attending is suggested.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Written exam with close and/or open-ended questions. Oral at teacher's discretion.