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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**Linking Exercises and Reflection**: Promotes integrated learning with key exercises for self-reflection
**Youtube Videos and Informative Images:** Includes links to videos and images for in-depth understanding
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**Based on Hodder Textbook:** Sourced from a reputable textbook, ensuring alignment with the latest syllabus and high-quality content for AS & A Level Psychology (9990).
These slides offer a structured breakdown of complex topics, facilitating a deeper understanding of the subject matter. Each slide is meticulously crafted, incorporating engaging visuals, concise explanations, and interactive elements.
From detailed theories of organizations, this resource equips you with the essential knowledge and analytical skills needed to excel in AS & A Level Psychology, organizational psychology option
Ideal for individual study or classroom use, these slides provide an invaluable resource for students aiming to grasp the nuances of motivation at work, leadership and management, group behavior in organizations, physical work conditions and satisfaction at work outlined in the Cambridge syllabus. Strengthen your foundational knowledge and analytical thinking with this comprehensive lesson companion.
