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)?