Counselling Skills for the Workplace (6) [872]

Theoretical perspectives on applicable counselling models for use in dealing with psychological obstacles that have an impact on performance in the workplace and the practical application of the applicable skills.

Intermediate Statistics and Computer Usage (12) [873]

Introduction to data analysis via SPSS,  cleaning of data, overview of descriptive statistics, correlation- and regression analysis, item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis via SEM using LISREL, fitting of structural models via SEM using LISREL, introduction to measurement invariance studies.

​Psychological Assessment in Practice (12) [876]

A comprehensive overview of psychological assessment in practice including the most important definitional issues, and general description of tools of assessment, also understanding some facets of the science of psychological measurement; understanding testing and assessment in practice as well as practical applications of assessments in different scenario's.

Occupational Health and Well-being (10) [874]

Individual differences in health and well-being in organisations, improving worker health through interventions, designing healthy work, group/team and normative influences on health and well-being, antisocial work behaviour and organisational health, employee assistance programmes (eap: design, implementation, evaluation), workplace health promotion, integration and future directions, the management of HIV/AIDS in the workplace.

Organisational Development and Change(10) [875]

Theories of Organisational Development (OD); Leading and Managing Change; Role, competencies and professional ethics of OD Consultants; OD Consulting: Entering, Contracting, Diagnosing, Feedback and Action Plans; Individual, Interpersonal and Group Process Interventions; Organisation Process Interventions; Work Design Interventions; Workforce Diversity Interventions; Strategic Change Interventions; OD Case Studies; Practical OD Project.

Performance Dysfunction in the Workplace (10) [876]

Why people fail in their jobs, a systematic performance analysis approach to the solution of ineffective performance, the development of a taxonomy of work-related dysfunction (disturbances in the capacity to work [patterns of undercommitment, patterns of overcommitment, work-related anxiety and depression, personality dysfunctions and work, life role conflicts, transient situational stress, other psychologically relevant work difficulties], dysfunctional working conditions), diagnosis of work-related dysfunctions, broad areas of work dysfunction (workaholism, stress, burnout, underachievement and fear of success and failure, performance anxiety and work-related depression, problems with authority in the workplace, work-family conflict, white collar crime), performance dysfunction counselling.

Personality in the Workplace (10) [886]

The structure of personality, personality paradigms (psychoanalytic, socio-cultural, trait, learning, socio-biological, existential-humanistic), integrating models of personality, role of personality in job performance and teamwork, personality in person organisation fit research, emerging trends and needs in personality research and practice.

Professional Consultation and Ethics (10) [881]

The consulting process: initiating a consultancy; elements associated with initiating a consultancy, introducing and marketing of a consultancy; organisational entry: importance of organisational entry, elements associated with entry; assessment and feedback; action planning; interventions; evaluation; adoption of interventions by organisation; ending the consulting relationship. The consultant (roles and styles): types of consultants, determining the readiness of organisation for consultation; impact and resistance, dealing with resistance, the intervention process, the first intervention, assessment of perceptions, creating a climate for consulting and change, formalising the consulting relationship, problems associated with the client-consultant relationship. The consultant (diagnostic processes): the diagnostic process, diagnostic models, data collection, problems associated with organisational diagnoses.

Strategic and Ethical Leadership (10) [882]

Role of strategic leadership in organisational effectiveness, leader effectiveness, critical analysis of trait, behavioural and contingency theories, charismatic leadership, ethical leadership, leader values, transformational leadership, multicultural leadership, organisational power and influencing processes, leadership in teams and self-managed groups, measurement of leadership, development of leadership skills, integrating leadership models, current leadership issues in South Africa, research problems, case studies and project work in South African organisations.

THESIS (90) [871]

A study leader will be appointed during the selection process .

Registered Master’s students in the department  with a research component applicable to their qualification, you will need to obtain ethical clearance before research may commence. The details of this process will be communicated to all registered students at the applicable time and with the necessary support from their supervisor.