COURSE: BCOM IN INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANISATIONAL ...

This degree opens doors for a wide range of employment opportunities in career development, psychological measurement, industrial relations, ergonomics and consumer behaviour and, ultimately, to professional registration as counsellors, personnel practitioners and industrial psychologists. Briefly, it involves the scientific study of human behaviour at the workplace, with a view to supporting wellbeing and productivity among individuals, work groups and across the organisation.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years part time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Introduction to the economic and management environment


• Psychological processes in work context


• Personality in work context


• Business management


• Economics


• Accounting concepts, principles and procedures


• Accounting reporting

Second year subjects:

• Industrial psychological research


• Organisational psychology


• Consumer behaviour


• Ergonomics


• Psychological adjustment in the work context


• General management

Third year subjects:

• Strategic management


• Industrial psychological testing and assessment


• Personnel psychology


• Career psychology


• Labour conflict and negotiations


• Organisational development


• Individual differences and work performances


• Human capacity development


• Personnel psychology


• Workgroup dynamics and diversity

Careers: diversity manager, human resource manager, labour relations manager, change manager, conflict resolution manager.

Source: www.unisa.ac.za

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