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.

At the end of the course student will be able to: recognise, understand and describe the main epistemological issues underlying the approaches and paradigms of the organizational psychology, describe the origins and evolution of the organizational psychology, describe to a non-academic auditorium the classic themes of the discipline, identify the main cognitive and psychosocial processes that influence the relationship between the individual and the organizational environment, analyse the interactions between the individual and the organizational environment distinguishing between intrapersonal, interpersonal, intra-group and intergroup dimensions, design psychosocial interventions that are functional to improving organizational well-being and empowerment of groups and individuals.