Educational goals:
The course aims to bring the student closer to the themes of the psychology of organizations as social systems which aspire to reach an efficient and "rational" coordination of the processes through which individuals and groups create, share, and negotiate perspectives, evaluations, projects, ends and interventions on themselves and on the economic and social world. After an introductory historical and epistemological overview of the main organizational behavioral constructs, enriched by contributions from the economic, sociological, and anthropological perspectives, the course deepens the themes of organizational development and empowerment, organizational culture and its socialization, communication and learning organization, ethics and influence, diversity management and interculturality, leadership and power, decision-making and negotiation on resources, perceptions, values and symbols.
The course aims to integrate the conceptual and experimental rigor of the academic approach with more pragmatic and applicative overtures, in particular deepening the themes of organizational well-being, interpersonal emotional processes, generative mediation of conflicts and its impact on creation or destruction of economic value and relational capital.
Program of the course:
Historical notes and definition of constructs
The development of discipline
The basics of organizational behavior
"Limited Rationality" in Organizational Processes
Communication in organizations
Organizations like cultures
Intercultural management
Development, culture and organizational socialization
Learning in organizations
Motivations, values, attitudes and personality
Organizational climate and emotions in organizations
Leadership, consensus management, and power dynamics
Ethics and Organizational Behavior
Cooperation, conflict management, negotiation and mediation
Destructive and creative processes in organizations
Organizational wellbeing and individual empowerment
Paradigms and methods of research in organizations
Teaching methodology: Frontal lessons, case studies, experts' interventions, group discussion, simulations and exercises
Exam Mode: Written test with open questions, possible oral integration.
Text books:
Argentero, P., Cortese, C.G., e Piccardo, C. (2009). Psicologia delle Organizzazioni (p. 500, € 32,00)
Pietroni, D., Rumiati, R. (2012). Il Mediatore. Bologna: Il Mulino. (p. 139, € 8,33)
