Change, Stress and Conflict Management

Objectives

1. Knowledge and Understanding
a. Identify the characteristics of an effective team
b. Understanding the team development process
c. Recognising the different styles of leadership in a team
d. Identify the different roles that team members can play in the teams
e. Identify key conflict management strategies
2. Specific competences
a. Knowledge of the properties and functions of a team
b. Recognition of conflict management strategies
c. Self-awareness of how to deal with conflicts
3. General Skills
a. Critical Thinking
b. Communication (verbal and non-verbal)
c. Teamwork

General characterization

Code

14242

Credits

4

Responsible teacher

Filipa Castanheira

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Portuguese | English

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

• Hewstone, M., Stroebe, W., & Jonas, K. (2012). An introduction to social psychology (5th Ed.). Chichester: Wiley.
• Kalat, J.W. (2017). Introduction to psychology. Boston: Cengage.

Teaching method

The sessions will include a more expository part combined with self-reflection exercises, viewing of educational videos and group work. Digital formats will also be used for short exercises, as well as a case study for extended classroom discussion.

Evaluation method

The assessment of this curricular unit is done together with the block of curricular units of the same area of knowledge. This assessment has 3 moments, which together define the final grade of the curricular unit:
• Individual exam with a weighting of 50% of the total mark
• Group work with a weighting of 35% of the total grade value
• Individual reflection-action exercise carried out at the end of the curricular unit, with a weighting of 15% of the total grade value. The set of individual action-reflection exercises is a journaling activity, which will constitute, at the end, a learning portfolio capable of synthesising the contributions of the Executive Master for that student.

Subject matter

What a team is: Features, functions and properties
Team leadership
Team members: typology
Teamwork Disfunctions
Sources of conflict
Conflict resolution strategies
Stereotypes
Case study and discussion

Programs

Programs where the course is taught: