INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS
All these seminars have been supported by a grant fromSpanish Agency of Education and Dirección General de Política Universitaria
Date 22Feb -5March
Professor |
University |
Title |
| ZIJLSTRA, Fred |
Universidad de Maastricht |
Organization: Organizational Change |
| ROE Robert |
University of Maastricht |
Organization and Personnel Intervention: WOP as a technology: design
methodology and its applications |
| GUEST David |
King's College, London |
Personnel Intervention: HRM, well-being and organizational performance |
| ANDERSON, Neil |
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
Personnel Intervention: “assessment center” |
| GLAZER Sharon |
San José University, USA |
Organization and Personnel Intervention |
| ANDRIESSEN Erik |
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands |
Organization and Personnel Intervention: Context issues and global
differences relevant for Psychologists |
ZIJLSTRA, Fred
Module: Workshop on Organizational Intervention
The topic for the Joint Intensive Learning Unit is 'Organizational change'. Prof. Zijlstra will apply the Problem Based Learning method, whereby students learn from a practical case (or problem). He provides them with a case, and in small groups they had to discuss the various aspects of the case, and needed to find out what knowledge they would require to handle this case. This knowledge or information than should be found in the literature.
The role of the teacher is to ask questions and with those questions students should be guided to ask themselves the right questions. The whole process can be described in a few steps: to review two papers (summarized for the others) requested by prof. Zjilstra and to prepare the presentation about the case (power point).
ROE Robert
Work & Organizational psychology as a technology: Design methodology and its applications”
This contribution will begin with a discussion of the dual nature of W&O psychology, i.e. as an explanatory and an applied science. After describing the distinctive features of W&O psychology as technological science, the aim and logic of design will be introduced, and the principles of design methodology will be discussed. This will include: the basic design cycle, collaborating with stakeholders to define a design target, and establishing a program of requirements. Next, the focus will be on structuring the design process and managing it in practice. To illustrate the design approach and it application some practical examples will be presented from the subfields of work psychology and personnel psychology. The examples vary from very simple to rather complex. Finally, students will be asked to make some exercises in order to improve their understanding of design methodology, and to familiarize themselves with various aspects of its application.
GLAZER Sharon
Organization and Personnel Intervention
Context and content of organizational functioning are key factors for diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating success of organizational development and change projects. During the course of the week students will consider both contextual factors and content related to a case study while also gathering diagnostic information from stakeholders of a client group in order to plan and pitch an organizational intervention proposal to the client group. Students will need to utilize both theory and practical best practices in designing their intervention strategy/ies and consider alternative interventions. They will also need to take into consideration context of the organization while interpreting information obtained from interviews, information not provided (as is typically the case with real clients), state-of-the-art programs, best practices, costs and benefits of engaging in the proposed intervention, and remuneration. Students will work in small 5-person groups comprised of no more than one student from a host university. Students will work on these projects simultaneously with other proposed projects of the WS in order to provide them experience multi-tasking on client projects. My role will be to coach the students by guiding and supporting the students’ through their experiences. Students will be provided with feedback, but not answers, as they are to learn that there are multiple approaches to developing an intervention and no one way is foolproof. At the end of the week students will gain essential experience for data gathering, planning interventions, presenting planned interventions, and garnering client buy-in. They will also develop an understanding of equifinality when designing interventions.
ANDRIESSEN Erik
“Context issues and global differences relevant for Psychologists”
The objective of this module is that students develop insights:
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in the important world-contextual issues to be taken into consideration by Psychologists in their work.
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in the differences between regions in the world, with regard to Work and Organizational concepts and practices (interventions); and in the reasons for these differences.
These objectives imply three tasks (A, B, C). These tasks will be performed by groups of students. For this module each group has been allocated a certain region in the world outside Western Europe / USA, such as Africa, the Far East or Latin America.
The module consists of two phases
Phese 1, before the seminar, where students collect articles and integrate these into papers and power point presentation
Phase 2, during the seminar, where students present powerpoint presentations, regroup and develop integrated visions on the issues at stake.
ANDERSON, Neil
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GUEST David
“HRM, well-being and organizational performance”
“The seminar will focus on an exploration of the issues associated with the relationship between human resource management, employee well-being and organisational performance. It will address theoretical, methodological and empirical issues within a comparative framework”.
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