96129 - Team Processes

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students will handle theoretical and practical knowledge on social-psychological processes underlying teamwork with a specific focus on leader-members relationships, conflict management and development of creativity-innovation outcomes .

Course contents

The course will adddress the following social psychological properties of teams

Group Processes

Leadership

Diversity

Gender equality

Psychosocial approach to team creativity

Group and intergroup moderators of creativity

Epistemic motivations and creativity

Social motivations to creativity

From creativity to innovation

Organizations and creativity

Readings/Bibliography

Available on Unibo Virtuale teaching platform

Teaching methods

The course aims also to strenghten students' logicaland critical reasoning and to motivate them to actively contribute the acquisition of knowledge on the topics of the course.

In this vein, the course will be will be co-constructed among teacher and students

through:

Lectures

Group role playing and simulation of group dynamics

Presentations of team work outcomes on scientific reading and personal-collective reflection to the class

Open discussion of the issues addressed

Assessment methods

-Oral presentations of articles given in small groups of students to the class,will be evaluated at the collective level

-Students will be required to answers open questions on the topics addressed during the course. They will be also required to describe practical implications of the issues addressed in the answers

-Evaluation criteria: completeness and rationality of the propositions provided in the answers, correctness of the practical implications

Teaching tools

Lectures, videos, summary of the topics addressed through slides

Office hours

See the website of Monica Rubini