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Level 7 Diploma in Business and Organisational Psychology

Organisational Interventions and Stress Remedies

BOP701 · Health, Work and Stress — Week 9 of 16

CourseBOP701
Week9 of 16
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This week’s topics

Organisational Interventions and Stress Remedies

  1. Primary, secondary, and tertiary intervention frameworks
  2. Job redesign and task enrichment
  3. Employee empowerment and autonomy enhancements
  4. Participatory goal setting
  5. How the Job Characteristics Model Can Improve Motivation - Organizational Psychology Lecture 8.2
  6. Employee Empowerment

What you will be able to do

  • 3.1 Critically analyse a variety of remedies for stress management in an organisational context.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically analyse a variety of remedies for stress management in an organisational context.

Study materials

Videos

  • How the Job Characteristics Model Can Improve Motivation - Organizational Psychology Lecture 8.2 · YouTube · Professor Q · 8 min · for registered students
  • Employee Empowerment · YouTube · MBA Planet · 24 min · for registered students
  • What is empowerment at work? · YouTube · The Open University Business School · 3 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Tackling work-related stress using the Management Standards approach: a step-by-step workbook (HSE WBK01, 2017/2019) · PDF · Hse, guidance; 60 pages · for registered students
  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 6: Designing a Motivating Work Environment · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 205–252 · for registered students
  • Goal-setting participation and employees' proactive behaviour · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Understanding Occupational Stress
  • Week 2: Burnout and Traumatic Stress
  • Week 3: The Economics of Workplace Stress
  • Week 4: Theoretical Models of Workplace Wellbeing
  • Week 5: Workplace Stressors and Structural Conditions
  • Week 6: Task Architecture and Job-Related Strains
  • Week 7: Individual Differences and Extra-Organisational Factors
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Organisational Interventions and Stress Remedies
  • Week 10: Psychological Interventions: CBT and REBT
  • Week 11: Workplace Wellness and Health Promotion
  • Week 12: Applying Health, Work and Stress in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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