Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Ben Searle
Contact via 9850 8066
C3A 525
by appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MOrgPsych or MProfPsych
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit aims to provide students with professional understanding of the relations between work and wellbeing, and appropriate skills for better management of these relations. The unit covers applications of research to such practical matters as job analysis, job design, and stress management. The unit brings together theory, methodology and workplace issues to provide a sound underpinning for professional practice in industrial and organisational psychology.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Online Quiz | 10% | No | TBA |
IOP Competence Evaluations | 0% | Yes | Ongoing |
Intervention Proposal | 55% | No | TBA |
Attendance and Participation | 0% | No | ongoing |
Examination | 35% | No | Week 12 |
Due: TBA
Weighting: 10%
Weekly quizzes encourage you to keep a regular routine of watching the lecture videos each week, and to provide you with feedback about how much of the video content you remember and understand. You can access quizzes via the unit iLearn website. Quizzes must be completed independently, without any collaboration with others. Each quiz will be available for a limited time – typically it will expire at the start of the relevant class. It is not possible to re-open a quiz for individual students who missed the quiz deadline.
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 0%
This is a hurdle assessment task (see assessment policy for more information on hurdle assessment tasks)
You will be regularly asked to undertake activities involving the application of knowledge covered in the online lectures or set readings. The unit chair will assess your competence while you perform these activities, or after you have completed them.
Due: TBA
Weighting: 55%
Working from a client request that will be supplied, each student will identify an appropriate program of interventions. You will then focus on the ONE intervention (e.g. one training program OR one change to organisational practices, but not both) that you consider to be the most critical and effective, and present a clear and convincing justification for why that intervention should be effective (i.e., the evidence supporting your approach). You must also describe an appropriate method for evaluating the impact and effectiveness of your intervention program.
Due: ongoing
Weighting: 0%
Students are expected to attend all on-campus classes. Learning objectives and assessment activities are based on the requirement of a minimum 80% class attendance.
Due: Week 12
Weighting: 35%
There will be a 60 minute written exam (excluding reading time) held in the final class for the unit (currently scheduled as Week 12). This exam is designed to test your understanding of content covered in the unit and your capacity to apply this knowledge meaningfully when handling practical workplace problems. You will be presented with situations based on real consultancy work and decision-making experiences encountered by organisational psychologists, and you will need to use your knowledge of I/O psychology (particularly that gained from this unit) to answer questions. All content from on-campus classes, required lecture videos, and recommended readings is examinable.
The unit is largely taught using the "flip" approach. Face-to-face classes are held, but only in even weeks. To prepare for the classes, we provide content via iLearn -- video lectures to watch, articles to read, and activities to perform, help you understand theories and concepts, so that the on-campus classes can focus on practical activities and discussions where you utilise that knowledge to develop competence.
See unit outline and Macquarie University online timetable.
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Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/getting-started/student-conduct
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