Psico-Sociology, Communication and teaching

Code:

MESHO100

Acronym:

PCF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Behaviour and Social Sciences

Instance: 2006/2007 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Mining Engineering Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Occupational Safety and Hygiene Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EESHO	13	Plano oficial de EESHO 2005	1	2,5	6	-
MESHO	10	Plano oficial de MESHO 2005	1	2,5	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Program

I. Work psycho-sociology
- Traditional Psycho-sociologic approach to work: formal and informal organization; organizational change; human resources management and communication; intermediate managers training; working at a company;
- The will to break with Taylorism: “human factor” and production process conception
- Integrating approaches for a multidisciplinary project aiming at action
- Main categories for work analysis in a contemporary approach: prescribed work/ real work; abstract work, concrete work and “narrowing”; the diachronic and the synchronic; restitution and validation; methodological and ethical vigilance; work beyond the company.
II. Communication
- General principles of communication; traditional approach on different types of communication, distortions and obstacles to communication.
- Multidisciplinarity and communication: evidences from each professional group; dialogue between several conceptions; references and representations in risk assessment;
- To speak at work and about work: to “uncover” silenced actions; operative representations; cognition recursiveness;
- Communicate to work and work to communicate;
- Double-way dialogue among workers and interceptors: fundamental condition in intervention’s planning and guidance.
III – Training
- From social system conception to training conceptions: mechanical system logic organic system logic; constructed system logic; ”system as a process”’ logic;
- 3 Metaphors in adults’ training: knowledge as a stock; knowlege as action; training as development;
- Evolutions on “gestures and postures” training: from a closed defined intervention to an understanding (dynamic) intervention;
- Ergonomic work analysis and preventors’ training:
- Sosia instructions (Oddone & al, 1981);
- Guided work analysis (Teiger & Laville, 1991);
- Ergonomic Self Analysis (Six & Carlin, 1993);
- Crossed Self Confrontation (Clot, 2001)
- MAGICA (Vasconcelos & Lacomblez, 2000);
· Training evaluation
· Transforming work: Contributions and limitations of training; risk prevention actors inside and outside the company.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam