6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4021598DNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (D) Master - preliminary level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Department
Experimental and Applied Psychology
Educational team
Sara De Gieter (course titular)
Jemima Bidee
Activities and contact hours
39 contact hours Lecture
4 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

This course addresses all aspects of psychosocial well-being at work. All kinds of psychosocial risks inherent to the job content, job conditions, labour relations, labour conditions and work organization can have an effect on the functioning and well-being of workers. Psychosocial well-being received a prominent place in the legislation on general well-being at work. There are a lot of parties involved in the implementation of this law (e.g. prevention advisor psychosocial well-being, counselor, HRM, comite for prevention and protection at work, ...). Employers must comply with a number of obligations (e.g. risk analysis, prevention policy) and are, where necessary, supported by external services for prevention and protection at work.

In this course we study the main theories on stress and well-being at work, explore the legislation on well-being at work, examine risk factors at work, the obligations of the various parties involved, the development of a prevention policy, and we also pay attention to practical cases. The students also make a group assignment by which they gain insights in and evaluate the well-being policy of one organization of their choice.

Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Slides lecutures
Digital course material (Required) : Slides guest lectures
Course text (Required) : Student notes
Course text (Required) : Additional material provided by the professor
Handbook (Required) : De psychologie van arbeid en gezondheid, W. Schaufeli - A. Bakker, 4de, Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, 9789036824941, 2020
Additional info
  • Lectures
  • Guest lectures by experts from the field
  • Practical cases + plenary exercises

 

Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

After following this course, the student can/has:

  • define and recognize psychosocial risks
  • insight into the effects of psychosocial demands and how to avoid them
  • knowledge of the legislation regarding psychosocial well-being at work
  • understanding of the responsibilities of the parties involved in psychosocial well-being at work
  • make suggestions to develop a prevention policy

 

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
LEC Paper determines 30% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Written exam with a relative weight of 70 which comprises 70% of the final mark.

    Note: Written exam with open questions

Within the LEC Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Group assignment with a relative weight of 30 which comprises 30% of the final mark.

    Note: Group assignment (Written paper on an organizational case)

Additional info regarding evaluation

Written exam with open questions (70%)

Group assignment (Written paper on an organizational case) (30%)

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Educational Sciences: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Psychology: Afstudeerrichting arbeids- en organisatiepsychologie (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Behavioural Sciences: psychologie (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)