This module aims to promote critical thinking and develop insight into major theories and concepts relating to well-being, occupational health, work design, work motivation, and organisation design in today’s globalised businesses. The module content aims to provide students with evidence-based knowledge and practical skills necessary for fostering work motivation and favourable job attitudes through a critical understanding of job and workplace design. The module aims to enable students to recognise and manage workplace stress as well as understand how to promote well-being and resilience in organisations, including the key principles of human error and workplace safety and risk. The module aims to enable students to critically understand organisational design, including structure and culture, and how these can be leveraged to promote organisational resilience and human flourishing. Finally, the modules aims to critically reflect on the changing nature of work, and how pract itioners can apply these concepts through the consultancy cycle.

(LO1) Students will be able to recognise the key elements of work design and demonstrate practical skills relating to job and workplace design to enhance employees’ work motivation, workplace safety and organisational performance.

(LO2) Students will be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of the role of occupational health psychology in shaping job attitudes and enhancing the effectiveness and well-being of individuals, groups and organisations.

(LO3) Students will be able to utilise theoretical knowledge and apply practical skills relating to different perspectives on the causes, symptoms, management and prevention of workplace stress, including the role of mood and emotion in the workplace.

(LO4) Students will be able to demonstrate critical insight into key concepts relating to organisational structure, design, culture and climate and the implications these have for individual, team and organisational outcomes.

(LO5) Students will be able to recognise and critique the changing nature of work and work environments and the implications for individuals, teams and organisations.

(LO6) Students will be able to demonstrate critical understanding of contemporary positive psychological perspectives at work and evaluate the implications these have for their own future professional practice.

(LO7) Lifelong Learning
Students will critically reflect on contemporary topics on wellbeing at work and derive implications for their practice as future practitioner psychologists.

(S1) Teamwork
Students will be required to work together as a team in seminars.

(S2) Problem solving
Students will be exposed to case studies and organisational problems and will develop solutions using module content.

(S3) Communication
Students will be expected to communicate effectively with their teammates in seminars.

(S4) Consultancy skills
Students will be required to develop informed solutions to organisational problems and will therefore need to effectively organise and apply knowledge and skills acquired on the module and apply the consultancy cycle to derive evidence-based solutions.

(S5) International awareness
Students will be exposed to different cultural perspectives, norms and values by considering module content from a globalised international perspective.

(S6) Ethical awareness
Students will be exposed to the British Psychological Society ethics framework which will inform their ethical behaviour in practice and the responsibilities that employers have for staff well-being.

(S7) Digital literacy
Students will be required to develop engaging presentations through the use of various digital technologies and multi-media.

(S8) Lifelong learning
Students will critically reflect on contemporary topics on wellbeing at work and derive implications for their practice as future practitioner psychologists.

This module will be delivered over twelve weeks, comprising ten teaching weeks plus two enhancement weeks. The approach to teaching and learning will combine the use of large group in-person and asynchronous lectures, small group seminars (or workshops), scheduled seminar preparation sessions, and cross-programme contemporary issues sessions.

Lectures (total of 14 hours) - Each week will include at least a one-hour scheduled lecture, except for four weeks (scheduled at the beginning, mid-points and end of the module), which will be delivered as two-hour, in-person, live lectures. One-hour lectures could also be delivered live and in-person but may alternatively be provided online or asynchronously (including appropriate scaffolding and online supporting material) at the discretion of the module teaching team.

Seminars (total of 12 hours) - Each module will include six two-hour seminars. These seminars will be interactive small-group in-person workshops.

Seminar pre paration (total of 6 hours) - Each seminar will also include a scheduled one-hour preparation session, enabling students to engage in relevant preparation activities, as deemed necessary by the module teaching team.

Contemporary Issues Sessions (total of 4 hours) - The module will also include two two-hour contemporary issues lectures or events that are directly relevant to the module and broader programme of study. These may include a lecture from a member of faculty on their research, an external industry speaker or a member of the advisory board and will be organised by the Director of Studies in coordination with module teams.

Self-directed learning (total of 164 hours) – Students will engage in self-directed learning in a wide variety of ways throughout the programme. This will include engaging in scaffolded independent learning tasks set outside the classroom on the virtual learning platform, independent reading from essential and recommended sources (e.g., jou rnal articles, textbooks, industry reports, practitioner publications), assignment development and preparation, formative online quizzes, case study analysis, simulation-based tasks, and self-directed group activities. Staff responsible for the module will also provide weekly office-hours and dedicated assessment and feedback sessions for students to seek individual support and formative feedback on their independent learning and progress.

The module will take a multi-level perspective to explore the following indicative topics:

Job design and work motivation – understanding the antecedents of job attitudes and extra-role behaviours in the workplace;

The evolving design of work environments for fostering organisational performance, wellbeing, safety, and innovation;

Occupational health psychology;

Traditional and new ways of work and work life balance;

The psychology of people and technology; Human factors and ergonomics;

The psychology of group processes and team effectiveness in organisations;

Stress in the workplace; causes, symptoms, prevention and management;

Mood, emotion and positive psychological perspectives in the context of work;

Promoting resilience and well-being in organisations.

Applying theory to practice: the application of the consultancy cycle and practical skills development.