Do you want to know what we are working about?

If so, maybe you find interesting these links. They will lead you to some works we have carried out in class, about relevant intellectual people related to the history of Working&Organizational Psychology.

-A work about Chris Argyris.
-A work about Frank Bunker Gilbreth.
-A work about the Gilbreths. A really productive family.
-A work about Peter Drucker
-Another work about Peter Drucker
-A work about Henry Ford
-A work about Lyndall Fownes Urwick

And, maybe, you don't find this interesting and you may want to change the subject within the Psychology science. This link will lead you to many other links, related to several areas of Psychology.

-If you get bored in class, learn by yourself!

And you will find here Harrison typologies of organizational culture. Useful.

-Harrison typologies of organizational culture

And here, an interesting link if you want to learn about History of Working&Organizational Psychology:

History of Working and Organizational Psychology

Enjoy it!

Do you know who is Peter Ferninand Drucker?

I do not suppose so. That is the reason we have here the guidelines elaborated by two classmates-specifically Julia Torrente and Manuel Rivero- to present to the rest of the class a work about this intellectual man.

1st SLIDE:

Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909 - November 11, 2005) was an Austrian writer, lawyer, economist, management consultant and self-described "social ecologist". His books and scholarly and popular articles dealt with organizational management issues; they explored how humans are organized across the business, government and the nonprofit sectors of society.
After working as a journalist and also in the business sector, he also earned a doctorate in International Law and Public Law from the University of Frankfurt in 1931. Among his early influences was the economist Joseph Schumpeter, who impressed upon him the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship. Some years later (1934), while in the UK, Drucker was also a John Maynard Keynes' pupil.
In 1937, Drucker had to emigrate to the US (because the Nazism in Germany was at its peak), where he became a professor and a writer. Having fled Nazi Germany, his view of leaders, particularly charismatic leaders, was not particularly positive; for Drucker, effective management, not leadership, was the key to success.
In 1943, when he became a naturalized citizen of the United States, he began teaching at Bennington College, then at New York University as a Professor of Management. Later, Drucker moved to California, where he developed an executive MBA programs for working professionals at Claremont Graduate University. From 1971 to his death he was the Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He taught his last class at the school in 2002 at age 92.
As a writer, he penned a regular column in the Wall Street Journal for 20 years and contributed to the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic Monthly and The Economist.

2nd SLIDE:

The main ideas in his writings are these:
1. Drucker asserted that companies work best when they are decentralized. According to him, corporations tend to produce too many products, hire employees they don't need, and expand into economic sectors that they should avoid.
2. He contended that most economists fail to explain significant aspects of modern economies.
3. Drucker believed that employees are assets and not liabilities (activos no pasivos), and that workers with knowledge are essential for modern economy. In other words, people are an organization's most valuable resource and a manager's job is to prepare and free people to perform.
4. He claimed that government is often unable to provide new services that people need or want. He called this "the sickness of government". The chapter "The Sickness of Government" in his book The Age of Discontinuity formed the basis of the New Public Management, a theory of public administration.
5. A belief that taking action without thinking is the cause of every failure.
6. By the 1980s, Drucker suggested that volunteering in the nonprofit sector was the key to fostering a healthy society where people found a sense of belonging and civic pride.
7. There is a need to manage business by balancing a variety of needs and goals, rather than subordinating an institution to a single value. This concept forms the keynote of his writing "The Practice of Management".
8. Profit is not the primary goal, but rather the clients, as an essential condition for the company's existence.

Selected Readings of Organizational Psychology

Organizacional Psychology
Selected papers

1. Let´s waffle about…: Talk about those topics with your partners and spot three members in class that are most alike you.

2. Questionnaire of English command: Apply and feedback on results.

3. Work and Organizational Psychology in Spain: Make a summary chart stating all the developments in Spanish W&O arena (journals, database, graduate studies, etc.

4. 62% more police resign from force: Explain the reason(s) for increases in job resignations at police force.

5. Why the best of friends are usually women: Resume the press article and explain the research results.

6. Flexible work hours for all: What are the demands stated in the text and why are they made? Connect answers with class notes.

7. What did Mayo do?: Read and resume the main points of the text within political background.

8. The 21st Century office: Detail the new workplace for contemporary workers. Provide advantages and disadvantages of the changes.

9. Get better: Describe the social restrains and supports for the success in life/work in each of the three characters.

10. Career management in recessionary times: What are the features of the survival syndrome? What are the relationships between psychological contract and career management?

11. Upgrade your 9-5: What does the 9-5 refers to? What are the advice we need to remind when considering a radical change in our career?

12. The great divide: List the similitudes and differences between men and women?

13. 7.9% Loan: Describe the advertisement. What is being promoted? Express what could the pictured man be feeling? Why is a man?

14. New dad diaries: What are the most sound changes in parents-to-be couple according to the text?

15. Gender Identity Questionnaire: Apply the test and discuss results in class.

16. General coaching: Make a coach service for the three described cases.

17. This is the changing face of multi-racial Britain: Explain the consequences of immigration in England society and economy.

18. The pedalling paramedics in the saddle fro a bigger role: Explain the (dis)advantages of the new work organization/service.

19. Anita gives her clients the bird: What Anita´s business and why could help to develop leadership and communication skills.

20. Publishers who failed to spot literary classics: What was the inspiring idea of the main character of the press article (David Lassman)?