Bachelor courses of the professorship

The professorship is responsible for the BPsy4.2 module in the Bachelor's degree programme in Psychology, consisting of a lecture in the winter semester and an in-depth seminar in the summer semester. The lecture on work and organisational psychology builds on the basic training of the first four semesters and provides an overview of the entire field of application. This includes the topics of work and requirements analysis, workplace design, job satisfaction, health and well-being, the entire process of personnel recruitment according to DIN 33430, onboarding, personnel development, goal setting and self-management, teamwork, leadership and organisational development.

The in-depth seminar on work and organisational psychology focuses on practical application and the acquisition of skills. Students should not only understand the content, but also be able to convey and apply it themselves. The in-depth seminar follows the structure of the lecture in terms of content and expands on this using selected research results, which are then applied in business cases based on practical issues. Among other things, students practise work and requirements analysis techniques, specific interview forms such as the critical incident technique (Flanagan, 1954) and multimodal interviews (Schuler, 2018); conceptual exercises are carried out on recruiting, onboarding and personnel development as well as simulations on teamwork and leadership. In order to enable students to set their own initial focus during their Bachelor's degree, the specialisation seminar is offered in parallel with two different thematic focuses (recruiting and personnel recruitment vs. personnel and organisational development). Interested students are also offered the opportunity to acquire the personal licence E in accordance with DIN 33430 (see www.din33430portal.de) on a voluntary basis in cooperation with the German Psychology Academy.