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Well being in Organizations

Objectives

  • Acquire a broad view of mental health and illness.
  • Reflect on the challenges that occur within organizations that can harm well-being and mental health.
  • Perspective policies that improve organizational well-being.

General characterization

Code

02109209

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Available soon

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

  • Bock, Laszlo: Work Rules! (2015) John Murray Editions.
  • Hasson, Gill; Butler, Donna: Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace A Practical Guide for Employers and Employees; (2020) John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
  • Bowden, Mark: Tame the Primitive Brain: 28 Ways in 28 Days to Manage the Most Impulsive Behaviors at Work (2014) John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
  • Riba, M.B.; Parikh, S.V.; Greden, J.F.: Mental Health in the Workplace: Strategies and Tools to Optimize Outcomes; (2019) Springer.
  • Honeybourne; Victoria: The Neurodiverse Workplace: An Employer's Guide to Managing and Working with Neurodivergent Employees, Clients and Customers (2019) Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
  • Kirby, A., Smith, T. (2021). Neurodiversity at Work: Drive Innovation, Performance and Productivity with a Neurodiverse Workforce. NY: Kogan Page Limited.
  • Paul Maiden & David Sharar (Eds.) (2018). Global Perspectives of Employee Assistance Programs. NY: Routledge.
  • Paul Lehrer, Robert Woolfolk, Acharya Balkrishna, Patricia Carrignton & Kevin Chen (Eds.) (2021). Principles and Practice of Stress Management. NY: Guilford Press.

Teaching method

Lectures using the presentation of case studies for reflection.

Evaluation method

Available soon

Subject matter

1. Human behaviour in organizations.
a) The individual at work: stress neurosciences, attention, productivity, creativity, gratitude.
b) Interpersonal relationships at work.
c) Leadership.
2. Health and mental illness in organizations.
a) Mental Health and Mental Illness.
b) Specific mental disorders.
c) Personality.
d) Neurodiversity.
3. Interventions for well-being in organizations.
a) Organizational Strategies.
b) Conflict Management.
c) Stress Management.
d) Stressed worker support and intervention programs.