Business and Organisational Psychology MSc
Coventry, United Kingdom
MSc
DURATION
1 up to
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About : The Business and Organisational Psychology MSc focuses on the intersection of psychology and business practices. It covers essential topics such as human behavior in organizations, workplace dynamics, and psychological assessment. This program is designed to help students understand how psychological principles apply to organizations and improve workplace effectiveness.
Career Outcomes : Graduates may pursue careers in areas such as human resources, organizational development, consulting, and employee training. Other potential roles include business analyst, talent management specialist, and change management consultant. This degree equips students with skills to influence organizational effectiveness and enhance employee well-being.
This MSc course will help to understand and apply psychological and behavioural factors relating to individuals and organisations in the workplace.
Course overview
Through practical case studies, you will explore the individual, team and organisational factors that can affect workplace behaviours. These include decision-making, personnel selection, motivation and teamwork, as well as the techniques needed to manage such situations.
- The course aims to provide you with a thorough grounding in the theory and practical skills required to apply psychological research, business tools and methods within a variety of organisational settings and corporate cultures.
- You will explore learning business psychology-related techniques to promote individual workplace wellbeing and organisational success.
- It aims to prepare you for business and organisational psychology roles in management or consultancy, in human resources and the many other occupational functions. These could include learning, training and development, recruitment, health and wellbeing.
Why you should study this course
- Accredited by the Association for Business Psychology (ABP).
- Taught by academics, many of whom benefit from practitioner experience either as a Business Psychologist or through consultancy-based work (staff may be subject to change).
- Dedicated consumer psychology module, which provides a critical understanding of consumer behaviour and applied marketing and advertising practice.
- Opportunity to develop an evidence-based practice intervention plan as an outcome of a systematic literature review.
- The opportunity to attend professional business conferences, which have previously included the National Work and Wellbeing Conference or the Workplace Sustainability Conference2 (subject to availability and additional costs may apply).
The main study themes of this course are:
- Work and Wellbeing: An introduction to employee wellbeing, based in applied theory and practice looking at workplace behaviours and issues, such as work life balance, stress and bullying, performance coaching and counselling including emotional triggers, mental and physical health symptoms related to the workplace, disorders and potential coping strategies and interventions.
- Psychological Assessment at Work: The principles, theories, methods and legal issues concerning recruitment, selection and assessment.
- Learning, Training and Development: How to design, implement and evaluate training programmes according to the context and requirements. Consumer
- Psychology: Provides an overview of consumerism and buyer behaviour, marketing research linked to the psychological concepts of consumer decision-making. Considering how to reach consumers effectively, through an exploration of their behaviours and attitudes and effective advertising.
- Leadership, Engagement and Motivation: The concepts of leadership, power and influence and their impact on employee engagement and motivation.
- Consultancy/Management: How to critically evaluate and develop solutions to complex, inter-related, multi-faceted issues that can be found in a variety of organisations and professional contexts.
Modules
- Psychological Assessment at Work
- Project Planning and Research Skills
- Work and Wellbeing
- Leadership Engagement and Motivation
- Learning, Training and Development
- Consumer Psychology
- Leading Strategic Change through Creativity and Innovation
- Systematic Literature Review and Evidence-Based Practice
On successful completion of this course you should be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the theoretical principles of Business and Organisational Psychology as applied in a business (occupational) setting, together with relevant psychological business analysis techniques
- Critically evaluative psychological literature and apply research findings to professional practice
- Demonstrate the appropriate application of ethical and codes of conduct, analysing complex employee-related issues and selecting appropriate intervention techniques to produce creative and effective business solutions
- Produce consultancy reports based on theoretical concepts and knowledge in line with professional reporting standards in psychology
- Evidence a range of transferrable and professional skills, thereby enhancing employment and promotion opportunities. These could include presentation; problem-solving; aptitude in literacy, numeracy and IT; working independently and with others to complete tasks effectively; excellent verbal and written communication; report writing; and self-management strategies to organise time and workloads.
Where our graduates work
Many of our graduates have gone on to work as independent business consultants for companies like Kellogg's and Ricoh UK. Graduates have also found employment as business consultants, in sales, in HR, and as learning, training and development, and leadership training practitioners.