3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4023329ENR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.
!! Co-requisite (enrolment for this course only possible together with): Teams and leadership !!
The aim of this course is for students to learn how to stage an intervention to develop team- and leadership related skills, competencies, and processes. Within this course, we will cover the following topics:
- How do teams develop over time?
- What skills and competencies are needed for teams to function optimally?
- How can leaders optimally support team processes?
- How can IO-psychologists create interventions to improve the functioning of teams?
- How can IO-psychologists facilitate teams during such interventions?
- How can IO-psychologists ensure that interventions are successful, using a systems-based perspective?
- How can IO-psychologists develop training modules for team members?
- How can IO-psychologists develop leadership potential in team members?
To gain a better understanding of these topics, students will learn about theories that explain team processes and leadership (e.g., models on team formation), and they will learn about various intervention and facilitation techniques that can be applied by IO-psychologists (e.g., appreciative inquiry). Students will also participate in a team intervention, to learn about such interventions from the perspective of the team member. Finally, students will work as a team on an assignment in which they develop an intervention for a company. This assignment starts from a real-world problem. Students will need to reflect on the context of the problem, the structure and history of the team and organization, and the goal of the intervention. Next, they will need to describe their intervention and link it to theory (e.g., why do they choose this particular intervention, given the context of the organization?). They will also describe how they would facilitate the intervention. Their proposal for an intervention is described in a paper and presented to a jury.
- 2nd exam period: if the student fails the course in the 1st exam period, he/she will need to redo the assignment individually. The written report needs to be handed in by the first Monday of the 2nd exam period before 12:00 (noon). Given that the assignment needs to done individually in the 2nd exam period, no peer evaluation will be used.
- To individually grade students on the group assignment, we will use peer evaluation (mandatory). This means that students will evaluate themselves and their team members on a number of criteria, resulting in an adjustment factor. This adjustment factor will be used to individualize the grade received by the team on the group assignment, by multiplying the team grade by each team member's adjustent factor. The group assignment (written report + oral presentation) counts for 100% of the total grade of the course. When a student does not complete the peer evaluation by the given deadline, the course instructor can decide to deduct the maximum amount of points possible with the peer evaluation for that student. The course instructor has the final say in the application of the peer evaluation, and can decide to increase, decrease, or ignore the adjustment factor, if the peer evaluation scores appear unreliable. Such decisions will only be taken in exceptional cases, and will always be based on clear arguments, analyses, and/or a discussion with the involved students.
- Students can ask to do the assignment individually, rather than in a team. However, this will only be allowed in exceptional situations. Students need to submit a request, including a thorough motivation for their request, during the first lecture or within 2 weeks following the first lecture. The teaching team will evaluate the request and decide if this exception can be granted or not.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
SELF Presentation determines 40% of the final mark.
SELF Paper determines 60% of the final mark.
Within the SELF Presentation category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Not applicable
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Educational Sciences: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Psychology: Afstudeerrichting arbeids- en organisatiepsychologie (only offered in Dutch)