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Course, academic year 2021/2022
  
Psychology for Managers - AB501008
Title: Psychology for Managers
Guaranteed by: Department of Economics and Management (837)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2021 to 2023
Semester: both
Points: 3
E-Credits: 3
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 1/1, MC [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: Mynaříková Lenka PhDr. Ph.D.
Classification: Teaching > Psychology
Is interchangeable with: B501008
Examination dates   Schedule   
Course completion requirements

active participation in seminars with at least 70% attendance

oral exam

Last update: Mynaříková Lenka (10.12.2021)
Literature

R: Aamodt, M. G. (2015). Industrial/Organizational Psychology: An Applied Approach (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

R: Cooper, C. (2010). Individual Differences and Personality (3rd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

R: Fiske, S.T., Gilbert, D.T., Lindzey, G. (2010). Handbook of Social Psychology. Wiley: London.

R: Riggio, R. E. (2012). Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology (6th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

A: Bass, B. M. (2008). The Bass handbook of leadership: Theory, research, and managerial applications (4th ed.). New York: Free Press.

A: Frager, R., & Fadiman, J. (2013). Personality and Personal Growth (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Academic.

A: Forsyth, D. R. (2013). Group Dynamics (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth.

A: Staw, B. M. (2004). Psychological Dimensions of Organizational Behavior (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Last update: Mynaříková Lenka (10.12.2021)
Syllabus

1. Introduction to psychology, applied disciplines, managerial psychology

2. Methods of psychology for managers - observation, interview, personality and performance tests, creativity, intelligence

3. Manager's personality and its diagnostics

4. Social group and group phenomena, work teams and team roles

5. Verbal communication

6. Non-verbal communication

7. Deceptive communication and its identification

8. Conflicts and their solutions

9. Negotiation - strategies and types

10. Attitudes and their influencing

11. Motivation and motivational theories

12. Detection of corporate fraud and managerial psychopathology (dark triad)

13. Stress, psychohygiene and workload, coping strategies

14. Negative phenomena in the workplace - aggression, mobbing, bossing

Last update: Mynaříková Lenka (13.09.2020)
 
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