Three-Year Degree Course in Communication, Technologies and Digital Culture (L-20)

PSYCHOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNICATION
Prof. Gianluca Biggio (email: biggio@unitus.it)

Year: 3rd Semester: 1st SDS: M-PSI/06 8 CFUs

SYLLABUS (2020/2021)

COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Having a systemic vision of organizations and their functioning at various levels, from the socio-structural aspects to the cultural and psychological ones.
2. Acquiring an understanding of organizations by examining the main organizational behaviours deriving from the interaction between psychological motivations and productive instances.
3. Understanding group dynamics and the affective dimension of work.

COURSE SYLLABUS
Course presentation
The course aims to offer a systemic vision of the organizational reality and its relationship with communication processes. The course will start from the birth of Organizational Psychology and retrace the main topics of the discipline: Human Relation Management and management tools, man-work relationship, the psychological dimension of work and the influence of group and communication interaction in organizations, and psychological tools.

Lesson plan
1. The meaning of organization and work in different disciplinary contexts: economic, structural and anthropological aspects of the organization.
2. The organizational system and its environment; organizational variables. Structure, roles, tasks.
3. The affective dimension of work; the variables of psychological subjectivity.
4. Intersubjectivity and organizational behaviour. Culture, communication and organizational climate.
5. The managerial management of Human Resources in public and private organizations.
6. The concept of leadership, empowerment, motivation, evaluation and development of people.
7. The work group and the team; support for individual development.
8. New orientations in organizational psychology; organizational consultancy for individual development; the issue of bullying; stress; gender issues; management of cultural diversity; organizational well-being, new business models.
9. Research in organizational psychology.

INSTRUCTION MODE
Università degli Studi della Tuscia is promoting the internationalization of curricula and degree courses in all its departments. Therefore, faculty members are invited to use English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in their lectures and to produce ELF teaching materials to increase the educational offer. This syllabus is part of the said internationalization process.
The course will consist of 16 hours of asynchronous online video-lectures. Additional materials in English are provided on the UniTusMoodle course page.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT
Oral exams or alternatively a written test with pre-coded multiple-choice questions.


TEXTS AND MATERIALS for italians students L-20
1. Biggio, G. Psicologia delle organizzazioni e della Comunicazione. Aracne editrice, Roma 2019, ISBN 978-88-255-2856-5
2. Biggio, G., Il counselling organizzativo. Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2007. ISBN 9788860301376 (cap.1,2,3, tot. pp.76).
3. Castiello D’Antonio, A., Interviste e colloqui nelle organizzazioni. Metodi per un dialogo efficace nei contesti organizzativi e istituzionali, Raffaello
Cortina, 2015. ISBN 978-88-6030-780-4 (pag. 1-48, e pag.115-174)



TEXTS AND MATERIALS for Erasmus students not Italian speaking:
• Irving B. Weiner, Neal W. Schmitt, Scott Highhouse (eds.), Handbook of Psychology, Volume 12, Industrial and Organizational Psychology
(selected chapters)
• References to manuals relating to the topics covered will be provided during classes.
• Didactic materials provided alongside video lessons on the following topics:
- Real business case studies
- Exercises
- Tests

The course materials are available on the course page on UniTusMoodle.
For information or to be given access to the UniTusMoodle course page please contact the course teacher.

HANDBOOK of PSYCHOLOGY (ON WEB)
VOLUME 12
INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Walter C. Borman Daniel R. Ilgen Richard J. Klimoski
Volume Editors
Irving B. Weiner
Editor-in-Chief
3 JOB PERFORMANCE 39 Stephan J. Motowidlo
8 PERSPECTIVES ON TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 171 Kurt Kraiger
10 MOTIVATION 225
Terence R. Mitchell and Denise Daniels
14 WORK GROUPS AND TEAMS IN ORGANIZATIONS 333 Steve W. J. Kozlowski and Bradford S. Bell
18 STRESS IN ORGANIZATIONS 453 Sabine Sonnentag and Michael Frese
22 ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CLIMATE 565 Cheri Ostroff, Angelo J. Kinicki, and Melinda
M. Tamkins

Any other deeping inside or outside the book is well accepted