Organizational Psychosociology

Code:

LP402

Acronym:

PO

Instance: 2005/2006 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Psychology and Education Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LPSI	178	Plano oficial a partir de 2001/02	4	6	11	-

Objectives

The Organizational psychosociology that uses mainly group and organizational level as study object fundamentally aims at familiarizing the students with the models, theories and practices, of organizational analysis. Bearing in mind this objective as well as the development of practical skills in organizational analysis, students are invited to study an organization in practical lessons.

We pretend the students
1) To get the specific language of organizational psychosociology;
2) To knowledge the various analysis and intervention theories about organizations;
3) To develop practical skills mainly at the analysis level, in the field of organizational research;
4) To understand the need of psychological intervention in organizational and work contexts.

Program

A. Introduction
1. The Organizational psychosociology
2. The concept of organization
3. The importance of studying organizations.
B. The study of organizations
1. The organizational reality as social reality
2. Historical perspectives of organization's theories
2.1. The first contributes for a organizational theory
2.2. Scientific Organization of Work or Taylorism
2.3. The Bureaucracy Theory
2.4. The Human Relations Movement
2.5. The systemic approach of organizations
2.6. The socio-technical approach of organizations
2.7. Contingent theories: organizational approach of Mintzberg
2.8. The model of organizing.
3. The systematisation of theories of organizations
3.1. Characteristics of organization’s field of studies
3.2. Systematisation of the theories of organizations proposed by Burrell and Morgan..
C. Organizational processes
1. Organizational communication.
D. Evaluation of the discipline

Main Bibliography

1. Bertrand, Y. & Guillemet, P. (1994). Organizações: Uma abordagem sistémica. Lisboa: Instituto Piaget (Tradução de Dulce Matos), Caps. 3, 4 e 5.
2. Burrell, G. & Morgan, G. (1994). Sociological paradigms and organizational analysis. London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., pp. VIII-37.
3. Jordão, F. (1998). Uma abordagem cognitiva das Organizações: Estudos de mapeamento cognitivo na banca portuguesa (Cap. 2). Porto: FPCE - UP.
4. Katz, D. & Kahn, R. (1966). Organizations and the system concept. In Shafritz & Ott (1992), (Eds.). Classics of Organization Theory. California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, Cap. 27.
5. Katz D. & Kahn, R. (1987). Psicologia social das organizações (Tradução brasileira de Auriphebo Simões). São Paulo: Editora Atlas, Caps. 2, 3, 4, 5 e Cap. 7.
6. Liu, M. (1983). Approche socio-technique de l’organisation. Paris: Les Éditions d’Organisation, Cap. IV e V.
7. Lynch, P., Eisenberger, R. & Armeli, S. (1999). Perceived organizational support: inferior versus superior performance by wary employees. Journal of Apllied Psychology, 84, 4, 467-483.
8. Mintzberg, H. (1995). Estrutura e dinâmica das Organizações (Tradução). Lisboa: Publicações Dom Quixote, Cap.s 1 e 2 e Caps. 4 a 16.
9. Mintzberg, H. (1989). Mintzberg on management: inside our strange world of organizations. NY: The Free Press. Cap. 2 e Caps. 6 a 14.
10. Morais, M. F. (1988). A reconcepção dos postos de trabalho e as novas tecnologias: Porto: FPCE, Cap. 1 e 2.
11. Morgan, G. (1989). Images de L' Organisation. Québec: Les Presses de L' Université Laval, Éditions ESKA, Caps. 2 e 3.
12. Morgan, G. (1980). Paradigms, metaphors, and puzzle solving in organization theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 25 (4), 605-622.
13. Rego, A. (1999). Comunicação nas Organizações. Lisboa: Edições Sílabo, Lda.
15. Rego, A. (2002). Comportamentos de cidadania organizacional. Um passo na senda da excelência. Amadora: McGraw-Hill de Portugal, Ltd.ª, Introdução.
16. Roethlisberger, F. (1941). The Hawthorne Experiments. In Ott, J. (Ed.). Classic readings in Organizational Behavior. California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, Cap. 1 (1).
17. Shafritz, J. M. & Ott, J. S. (1992) (Ed.). Classics of Organization Theory. California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, Introdução.
18. Taylor, F. W. (1916). The principles of scientific management. In Shafritz & Ott (1992), (Ed.). Classics of Organization Theory. California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, Cap. 7.
19. Taylor, F. (1947). Scientific Management. London: Harper & Row, pp. 124-146.
20. Trist, E. & Bamforth, K. (1951). Some social and psychological consequences of the longwall method of coal-getting. In Ott, J. (1989) (Ed.). Classic readings in Organizational Behavior. California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, Cap. IV, 27.
21. Weber, M. (1946). Bureaucracy. In Shafritz & Ott (1992) (Eds.). Classics of Organization Theory. California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, Cap. 8.
22. Yin, R. K. (1993). Applications of case study research. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publications, Cap. 1.

Complementary Bibliography

1. Blau, P. & Scott, W. (1962). The concept of formal organization. In Shafritz & Ott (1992), (Eds.). Classics of Organization Theory. California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, Cap. 21.
2. Boulding, K. E. (1956). General systems theory - The skeleton of science. Management Science, 2 (3), 197-208.
3. Burns, T. & Stalker, (1961). Mechanistic and organic systems. In Shafritz & Ott (1992), (Eds.). Classics of Organization Theory. California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, Cap. 20.
4. Chiavenato, I. (1998). Teoria geral da administração: Abordagens descritivas e explicativas (5ª Edição). São Paulo: Makron Books, Vol. 2, Cap. 13.
5. Cunha, M., Rego, A., Cunha, R. e Cabral-Cardoso, C. (2003). Manual de comportamento organizacional e gestão (2ª edição). Lisboa: Editora RH. Cap. 11.
6. Dessler, G. (1999). Human resource management. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Cap. 3 e 4.
7. Ferreira, J. M. C. e outros (1996). Psicossociologia das Organizações. Lisboa: Editora McGraw-Hill de Portugal, L.da, Parte I, Caps. 1 a 5 e Cap. 8 e 10.
8. Glen, F. (1983). Psicologia social das organizações (Tradução de D' Almeida, E.). Rio de Janeiro: Zahar Editores, pp. 48-63 e pp. 64-79.
9. Hall, R. (1987). Organizations: Structures, processes and outcomes (4ª Ed.). New Jersey: Prentice-Hall International, Inc., Cap. 1 e 2.
10. Hattrup, K., O’Connel, M. & Wingate, P. (1998). Prediction of multidimensional criteria: distinguishing task and contextual performance. Human performance, 11 (4), 305-319.
11. Keating, J. (1987). Sistemas produtivos e sua regulação. Contributos da perspectiva sociotécnica. Porto: FPCE, Cap. 3 e 4.
12. Kreitner, R. & Kinicki, A. (1998). Organizational behavior (4th Edition). Boston, Massachusetts: Irwin McGraw-Hill, Cap. 6.
13. Lam, S., Hui, C. & Law, K. (1999). Organizational citizenship behavior: comparing perspectives of supervisors and subordinates across four international samples. Journal of Apllied Psychology, 84, 4, 594-601.
14. Merton, R. (1957). Bureaucratic structure and personality. In Ott, J. (1989) (Ed.). Classic readings in Organizational Behavior. California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, Cap. IV, 26.
15. Robbins, S. P. (1990). Organization Theory: Structure, design and applications. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Cap. 1.
16. Robbins, S. P. (1999). Comportamento Organizacional (8ª Ed.). Rio de Janeiro: Livros Técnicos e Científicos Editora S.A., Cap. 9: 195-216 e Cap. 10.
17. Rocha, A. (1997). Gestão de Recursos Humanos. Lisboa: Editorial Presença. Cap. 3.
18. Rosnay, J. de (1995). O macroscópio. Para uma visão global (Tradução de M.ª Adozinda Soares). V. N. de Gaia: Estratégias Criativas. Cap. II.
19. Scott W. (1992). Organizations: Rational, natural and open systems (3ª Ed.). New Jersey: Prentice Hall International, Inc.. Caps. 2, 3, 4 e 5.
20. Smith, B., Benson, P. & Hornsby, J. (1990). The effects of job description content on job evaluation judgments. Journal of Psychology, 75, 3, 301-309.
21. Weick, K. E. (1979). The social psychology of organizing (2nd Ed). New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes are essencially expositives.
Practical classes are expositives, classes of orientation of the works and classes of oral presentation of works.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

The effective regimen of lacks for the practical lessons is applied.

Calculation formula of final grade

General considerations:
1) The grade obtained in the final exam weights ...%* and the grade obtained in the practical lessons weighs ...%* in the final classification;
2) The classification of the practical lessons includes the continuous assessment of works (...%)*; the periodical assessment through oral presentations of works (...%)* and final assessment through the written report delivered at the end of the academic year (...%)*.
3) Students have to obtain a minimum grade of 8 values in each of the two components to have a final classification in this subject.
* The balances will be negotiated with students in the first lessons of discipline.

Classification improvement

For final classification improvement , the student will be able to repeat only one time, the final exam of evaluation in one of the two following times to that he carried through the examination.
The final classification will be calculated considering the balances that will be negotiated with students for the theoretical and practical components.