MSc Business Psychology

This module is intended to provide critical knowledge related to the psychological aspects of organizational culture and how it affects the various functions in an organization which includes but is not limited to employee motivation, job design, decision making, change management, recruitment and selection.

This will equip students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable them to use a systems-based approach to identify and analyse issues related to organizational culture and generate potentially evidence-based solutions

This course aims to utilize psychology and management theory to examine issues that may arise due to organizational culture. The students will be presented with the knowledge and an appreciation of the major driving forces in determining organizational culture, how these impact upon a range of activities within the organisation including employee motivation, selection and recruitment, and the major psychological theories of organisational culture.

This module equips the students with a range of skills in psychology, that can offer insights into the nature of leadership. Furthermore, Change and leadership go hand in hand in organisations and leaders constantly need to drive change as part of their role. Through this module, students will be able to develop a self-awareness and reflective learning capacity in terms of their personal attitude to leading and managing in changing organisations.

Aims of this module are to:

• Present knowledge on key psychological approaches for understanding leadership
• Apply basic psychological principles and theories to novel problems in leadership and management
• Develop knowledge and understanding needed to design, initiate and lead change in diverse organizational settings.

This module introduces the students to principles and management strategies on inclusion and managing diversity in organisational contexts, in both theoretical and
practical realms. This will raise the student’s awareness in regards to working with individuals from diverse range of cultural, social and economic backgrounds.

The aims of this module are to:

1. Describe the impact of diversity in the context of business organizations
2. Analyse optimal means of managing diversity for maximum opportunities while addressing for inclusiveness

The aim of this module is to introduce the participants to challenges faced in social and organisational change from a perspective of psychological and management theory, allowing students to build upon knowledge of change management theories to enable the students to lead successful change and transition in their respective organisations. Modern businesses are facing constant change in all aspects of its operations. Therefore, individuals managing and controlling change in these organisations should understand how to adapt both the organisation and its people to its constantly shifting environment.

Modern businesses are facing constant change in all aspects of its operations. Therefore, individuals managing and controlling change in these organisations should understand how to adapt both the organisation and its people to its constantly shifting environment.

It is recognized in the modern business world that the first step in any effort to improve employee performance is coaching. In today’s world, Coaching is part of the day-to-day interaction between a manager and an employee who reports to them. Coaching impacts the growth of the whole organisation as well as the personal growth of the individual.

It has a positive effect on the culture of organisation and in change. The field of coaching in business environments for employee performance is growing at a dramatical rate in today’s world as more and more organisations realize the benefits of coaching and mentoring for employee motivation and engagement. At present, some organizations actively work to create a culture of coaching. This module introduces the students to the theories and skills related to coaching in business environments.

Modern organizations constantly utilize training and development programs to develop their employees, to stay competitive and retain talent, and the field of learning, training, and development is constantly gaining traction in modern business organisations.Recruitment too, is an integral part of this process to ensure that employees match with the requirements expected by the employer and the organisational culture. Thereby, understanding the psychological aspects of learning, training, development, selection and assessment is of significant importance to recruitment and to efficiently utilize work design and employee development procedures.

Cognitive theories of learning and skills development inform an understanding of how individuals learn. Thereby, this module presents the ways in which individuals learn and develop from a psychological perspective, in the context of work and organisations. Design and evaluation of training programs are also evaluated within this module from a psychological perspective, to ensure employee motivation and engagement in work organisations.

This module is intended to provide the students the necessary skills required to design their business research project as well as to bring together different areas of the course, allowing the student to reflect on their learning across the course and equip the students with necessary professional skills for professional development in their respective sectors of employment.

The module aims to introduce students to the different skills necessary for effective research and project writing, including research techniques and requisite standards of data collection and analysis.

This module builds on the research skills gained by the students in the Research Methods and Skills module, by which students have identified their research topic, and developed a research proposal in consultation with the supervisors.

Students will demonstrate an understanding the sector and the significance of issues within it via high level analysis, assimilation and interpretation of key information and statistics.

Aim of this module is to plan and conduct an original review of how research and theory from psychology can be applied to the investigation and solution of a defined business issue / problem, utilising knowledge gained from other modules on the MSc Business Psychology programme.