MSc Business Psychology

This module presents critical knowledge on psychological aspects of organizational culture and how it affects the various functions in an organization, which includes but is not limited to employee motivation, job design, decision making and change management.

This will equip students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable them to use a systems-based approach to identify and analyse issues related to organizational culture and generate potentially evidence-based solutions.

This module equips the students with a range of skills in psychology, that can offer insights into the nature of leadership. Students will evaluate different approaches to leadership in business organisations across three layers; Transforming Self, Transforming Teams and Transforming Organisations.

They will be presented with knowledge and skills in providing evidence based psychological solutions to business problems concerning leadership and management.
Moreover, Change and leadership go hand in hand in organisations and leaders constantly need to drive change as part of their role.

This module introduces the students to principles and management strategies on inclusion and managing diversity in organisational contexts, in both theoretical and practical realms. It will enable the students to analyse the impact of diversity in the context of business organizations while addressing inclusiveness.

The module will also raise the student’s awareness in regard to working with individuals from diverse range of cultural, social and economic backgrounds.
It will allow students to manage diversity in business settings for maximum opportunities while addressing for inclusiveness.

The aim of this module is to introduce the participants to challenges faced in social and organisational change from a perspective of psychological and management theory, allowing them to build upon knowledge of change management theories to enable to lead successful change and transition in their respective organisations.

This module will evaluate resistance to change in business organisations and how to overcome these. Different challenges raised with change in business organisations is discussed with the potential causes to these challenges, throughout the module.

This module introduces the students to the theories and skills related to coaching in business environments. It will provide the students with an understanding of the underlying theoretical frameworks related to mentoring and coaching in the context of business organizations.

Throughout the module, students are able to evaluate how coaching can increase performance and overall engagement of employees in business organisations.

This module seeks to explain the underlying psychology of how and why customers buy what they buy. This presents the science to help students capitalize on this growing discipline of consumer psychology in business organizations.

Throughout this module, students will be able to understand the role that psychology plays in marketing. It will also enable the students to evaluate various psychological concepts that are at play in consumer psychology enabling the students to harness these concepts to launch efficient marketing campaigns in business organisations.

Modern organizations constantly utilize training and development programs to develop their employees, to stay competitive and retain talent, and the field of learning, training and development is constantly gaining traction in modern business organisations.

Thereby, understanding the psychological aspects of learning, training and development is of significant importance to efficiently utilize work design and employee development procedures. Cognitive theories of learning and skills development inform an understanding of how individuals learn.

Thereby, this module presents the ways in which individuals learn and develop from a psychological perspective, in the context of work and organisations. Design and evaluation of training programs are also evaluated within this module from a psychological perspective, to ensure employee motivation and engagement in work organisations.

This module is intended to provide the students the necessary skills required to design their business research project as well as to bring together different areas of the course, allowing the student to reflect on their learning across the course and equip the students with necessary professional skills for professional development in their respective sectors of employment.

This module builds on the research skills gained by the students in the Research Methods and Skills module, by which students have identified their research topic, and developed a research proposal in consultation with the supervisors.

Students will demonstrate an understanding the sector and the significance of issues within it via high level analysis, assimilation and interpretation of key information and statistics.