Psychological Interven in Human Resource Development

Code:

POST11

Acronym:

IPDRH

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Psychology

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MPSI	23	Plano de Estudos 2021	1	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The aim is for students to develop knowledge and acquire skills in the main processes of people management in which organisational psychologists intervene in the workplace, incorporating principles of diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and the prevention of gender violence and bullying, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of this course students should be able to: 

• Interpret and explain the main psychosocial phenomena and processes in the area of people management.


• Evidence knowledge about the main areas of the people management function.


• Demonstrate knowledge and skills that allow them to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate changes and interventions carried out with a view to improving behaviors, situations and psychosocial processes in the area of people management.


• Relate people management processes to the SDGs, identifying how organisational psychologists can contribute to global goals of equity, well-being, and sustainable development.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

It is important that the student has knowledge in Organizational Psychology area.

Program

1. The people management function
1.1.Theoretical approaches to people development in the workplace
2. People management processes
2.1. Job description and analysis
2.2. Recruitment, selection and integration
2.3. Performance management and evaluation
2.4. People training and development

Mandatory literature

Chiavenato, I. ; Gestão de pessoas: o novo papel da gestão do talento humano (5ª Ed.), Editora Atlas Ltda, 2020. ISBN: ISBN 978-85-97-02406-7
Dessler, G.; Human Resource Management (16th Ed.), Pearson Education Inc., 2020. ISBN: ISBN 13: 978-0-13-517278-0
Rego, A., Cunha, M. P., Gomes, J., Cunha, R. C., Cabral-Cardoso, C., & Marques, C. A.; Manual de gestão de pessoas e do capital humano (3ª ed.), Edições Sílabo, Lda, 2015

Teaching methods and learning activities

This course is organized in theoretical and theoretical-practical classes that include:

- Exposition of theoretical frameworks;
- Viewing videos and performing guided exercises;
- Analysis and discussion of case studies;
- Workshops by psychologists working in the People Management area;
- Investigation work;
- Tutorial classes to monitor research work;
- Autonomous study.

keywords

Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Psychology > Applied psychology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	40,00
Participação presencial	20,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	1,00
Estudo autónomo	47,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de campo	60,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Classes are subject to verification of attendance.
Safeguarding the special cases covered in the law, students who miss more than 25% of the classes planned not get frequency at course unit (according to General Regulation Assessment of students U.Porto - Article 10, point 3.).

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification results from the grade obtained in the following evaluation components:

a) Final exam (40%);
b) Group work (60%) with the following assessment components:
-- tutorial supervision/presential participation (20%);
-- oral presentation of the work (40%).

To obtain approval at the course, the student must:

1) obtain a minimum final classification of 8 points in each of the evaluation components; and,

2) obtain a minimum final classification of 10 points (point 2.c), Art. 15 of the General Regulation for the student’s evaluation of U.Porto).

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who by law are exempted from verification of the conditions of attendance to classes, and that they can not actually attend classes, should perform the two assessment components previously defined. For this, they should contact at the BEGINNING of the semester (NEVER after 2^nd class) the professor.

Classification improvement

• It is possible to improve the classification of the final exam taken under the following cumulative conditions (Art. 17, point 1, paragraph a) of the ‘General Regulations for the Assessment of U.Porto Students’):
  i. Only once per curricular unit;
  ii. To take place in the normal or recourse period, and may also, by authorisation of the Director of the Organic Unit, take place in one of the other periods defined in Article 12(3), without prejudice to the following sub-paragraph;
  iii. The assessment takes place until the recourse period of the academic year following the one in which it was approved.

• In these situations the classification obtained in the "group work" component remains valid.

• The final classification is the highest, between the one that had been obtained initially and the one that results from the improvement of classification made. (Article 17, point 3 of the General Regulation for the evaluation of UP students).