AS & A level Psychology 9990 Editable Organizational Psychology lesson Bundle
Enhance your understanding of **Organizational Psychology** with our comprehensive lesson slides designed specifically for AS & A Level Psychology (9990) based on the 2024 Cambridge syllabus.
With a content-rich deck of **500 + slides** sourced from the acclaimed **Hodder textbook**, this resource delves deep into organizational theories, researches, and critical issues and debates surrounding such as:
1. Motivation at work
2. Leadership and Management
3. Group Behavior in Organizations
4. Organizational work conditions
5. Satisfaction at Work
**Features:**
**Comprehensive Coverag**e: 500+ slides covering symptoms, types explanations, treatments, studies, issues, and debates related to the following:
**1. Motivation to work**
*Need theories*
• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs including five needs, including a study, e.g. Saeednia (2011).
• McClelland’s theory of achievement motivation including need for achievement, affiliation and power.
*Cognitive theories*
• Latham and Locke’s goal-setting theory including goal-setting principles and SMART goals.
• Vroom’s VIE (expectancy) theory.
*Motivators at work*
• Extrinsic motivators at work: types of reward systems including pay, bonuses, profit-sharing, performance-related pay.
• Intrinsic motivators at work: non-monetary rewards including praise, respect, recognition, empowerment and a sense of belonging.
• Deci and Ryan’s self-determination theory including competence, autonomy and relatedness (exemplified by the following key study).
• Key study for applying self-determination theory to motivational rewards: Landry et al. (2019) study 1
*Evaluation*
Relevant issues and debates and methodology such as individual and situational explanations, reductionism versus holism, determinism versus free-will, idiographic versus nomothetic, generalisations etc
**Leadership and management**
**2. Leadership and Management**
*Traditional and modern theories of leadership*
• Universalist theories including great person, charismatic, and transformational leaders.
• Behavioural theories including Ohio University and Michigan University behavioural explanations.
• Heifetz’s six principles in meeting adaptive challenges; responsibilities of an adaptive leader.
*Leadership style*
• Muczyk and Reimann’s four styles of leader behaviour.
• Scouller’s levels of leadership including public, private and personal levels
• Leadership style and gender (exemplified by the following key study).
Key study on leadership style and gender: Cuadrado et al. (2008)
*Leaders and followers*
• Kouzes and Posner’s Leadership Practices Inventory including five practices.
• Kelley’s (1988) followership including definition of followership, two dimensions and five followership styles.
*Evaluation*
Relevant issues and debates and methodology for each topic such as application to everyday life, cultural differences, idiographic versus nomothetic, self-reports, psychometrics, nature vs nurture debate, individual vs situational debate, determinism vs freewill, reductionism vs holism
**3.Group behaviour in organisations**
*Group development and decision-making*
• stages of group development, e.g. Tuckman and Jensen (2010).
• Belbin’s nine team roles.
• faulty decision-making, explanations and strategies to avoid it: – groupthink including features with examples – Forsyth’s cognitive limitations and errors including types and subtypes.
*Individual and group performance*
• individual and group performance focusing on social facilitation and social loafing including definitions, drive theory and evaluation apprehension, social impact theory.
• group performance across cultures focusing on social loafing in individualistic and collectivist cultures, including a study, e.g. Earley (1993).
• performance monitoring of employee productivity.
Key study: Claypoole and Szalma (2019)
*Conflict at work*
• levels of group conflict (intra-individual, inter-individual, intra-group and inter-group). Causes of organisational and interpersonal group conflict.
• Thomas–Kilmann’s five conflict-handling modes.
• bullying at work; types, phases and causes, including a study, e.g. Einarsen (1999).
*Evaluation*
Issues and Debates, application to daily life, with Evaluation of strengths and weaknesses with each topic
**4. Organizational work conditions**
*Physical work conditions*
Impact of physical work conditions on productivity and the Hawthorne effect, e.g. Kompier (2006).
Impact of the design of the work environment focusing on open plan offices, including a study, e.g. Oldham and Brass (1979).
*Individual and group performance*
Design of work: shiftwork: rapid rotation and slow rotation, on-call and flexitime including definitions and examples of each.
Effects of shiftwork on health and accidents, including a study, e.g. Gold et al. (1992).
*Conflict at work*
Accidents at work focusing on human errors (errors of omission, commission, sequencing and timing) and system errors in operator–machine systems (machine controls and displays).
Reducing accidents at work: token economy, including a study, e.g. Fox et al. (1987).
Monitoring accidents (exemplified by the following key study).
Key study on the monitoring of accidents and risk events: Swat (1997).
*Evaluation*
Issues and Debates, application to daily life, with Evaluation of strengths and weaknesses with each topic
**5. Satisfaction at Work**
*Theories of job satisfaction*
theories of job satisfaction: Herzberg’s two factor theory including hygiene and motivational factors.
Hackman and Oldham’s job characteristics theory including job characteristics and psychological states.
• techniques of job design: enrichment, rotation and enlargement, e.g. Belias and Sklikas, (2013).
*Measuring job-satisfaction*
job satisfaction rating scales and questionnaires focusing on the job descriptive index (JDI).
Walton’s quality of working life (QWL) including eight conditions and QWL evaluation scale.
*Attitudes to work*
workplace sabotage including methods and reasons for sabotage (exemplified by the following key study). Key study reasons for sabotage in the workplace: Giacalone and Rosenfeld (1987).
Blau and Boal’s absenteeism and organisational commitment model including types of absence, categories of commitment.
*Evaluation*
Issues and Debates, application to daily life, with Evaluation of strengths and weaknesses with each topic
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