Psico-Sociology, Communication and teaching

Code:

MESHO100

Acronym:

PCF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Behaviour and Social Sciences

Instance: 2010/2011 - 2S

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
MESHO	47	Plano de estudos oficial a partir de 2007/08	1	-	6	64	160

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

CHAPTER 1: WORK PSYCHOSOCIOLOGY
- To get acquainted with the main currents of work psychology and psychosociology and provide a thorough knowledge of some specific themes, which are essential for the consideration of the human factor in occupational hygiene and safety management.
- To promote the progressive articulation of theoretical-methodological concepts with real situations of work experienced by trainees.

CHAPTER 2 – COMMUNICATION
- To raise students’ awareness to the understanding of communication phenomena, giving a special emphasis to interpersonal aspects.
- To promote the development of communication skills.
- To provide basic knowledge related to some relevant subject matters in the domain of organizational communication.

CHAPTER 3 – TRAINING
- To identify training opportunities in the area of occupational safety and health from the analysis and design of work processes;
- To design training programmes in occupational safety and health in an suitable for the needs of productive systems;
- To select and monitor ways of pedagogical work, ways of stimulating learning and audiovisual devices, which strengthen the diversification, improvement and reconfiguration of students’ experiences and skills;
- To assess training programmes by promoting the regulation of their actual impact in real safety and health conditions of the workers.

Program

I. Work psychosociology

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; 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);

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam