ST TUD DY G GUID DE - Skema Business School

CODE DU COURS / COURSE CODE
Crédits / Credits 4
Charge de travail / Student workload
Langue d’enseignement / Teaching
Language
Pré-requis / Prerequisite
Période d’enseignement / Teaching
period
Responsable du cours / Course
Coordinator
Psychodynamique du travail/Psychopathology at workplace
Face à face / Contact Hours
80
Travail individuel et/ou de groupe /
Personal &/or Team Work
Evaluation / Evaluation
30 H 15 H 3 H
Anglais/ English Français / French
Semestre
Florian Sala
Intervenant(s) / Instructor(s) Florian Sala
Evaluateur(s) / Evaluator(s) Florian Sala
Description du cours / Course
description
Résultats d’apprentissage / Learning
Outcomes
The understanding of human nature or personality is a challenge that we face not only in our personal but also
in our professional life in an organisation. To understand human personality, in this course students will learn
about the theoretical and methodological foundations of some of the principle theories of personalities
(behavioural, cognitive, psychodynamic, humanistic), and gain insight as to how such theories explain and
predict behaviour.
• Connaissances / Knowledge and Understanding (subject specific)
The student is expected to :
- understand why people choose particular goals for which they strive and what specific motives
direct such behaviour,
- make on the conceptualisation, definition and classification of mental illness with reference to
current research findings.
•Aptitudes cognitives / Cognitive/Intellectual skills (generic)
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The student is expected to :
- know the dynamics of human personality and the important theoretical concepts behind personality
theories, to apply them to managerial and organizational practice and to relate them to their own
experiences,
- recognize psychological disorders, conceptualise psychopathology with reference to current
research findings,
- recognize the influence of cultural variables on the nature and behaviour of individuals, their
adaptations to different environments, as well as their relationships with others within and outside
their own culture membership.
•Attitudes / Key transferable skills (generic)
The student is expected to :
- raise student’s awareness and sensitivity to the influence of cultural variables on the nature and
behaviour of individuals.
•Compétences pratiques / Practical skills (subject specific)
The student is expected to :
- have the competence to recognise psychopathology in an organisational setting and recommend
appropriate actions, while respecting confidentiality,
- recognize personal difficulties, identify behavioural problems at work, listen and understand
manager/employee relationship and each person’s perspective,
- Make strategies to deal effectively with maladaptive/deviant behaviours like violence,
Teasing/Bullying, Alcoholism/Substance abuse, sexual and racial harassment.