Master in Social, Forensic and Organizational Psychology
Rome, Italy
Master degree
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 4,390 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus, Blended, Distance Learning
Key Summary
About: The Master in Social, Forensic and Organizational Psychology at LUMSA prepares graduates to perform selection, assessment, requalification, and career development; design workplace development, conflict resolution, and well-being interventions; analyze organizational environments, processes, and structures; identify training needs and deliver training; address workplace safety, health, and new-technology impacts; detect work-related stress and manage related interventions.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as human resources and organizational managers across public and private, profit and non-profit sectors; organizational consultancy professionals handling selection, training, outplacement, stress prevention, and well-being; and freelance consultants offering training, coaching, evaluation of HR, organizational climate, culture, and stress risk.
The course of Psychology of Work and Organizational Well-being is a curriculum in the Master's degree in Social, Forensic and Organizational Psychology. It aims to provide advanced theoretical and practical knowledge related to the professional field of Work and Organizational Psychology. It also aims to develop mastery of methodological and technical tools for psychological analysis, design, and intervention necessary for assuming high-responsibility roles even in new work contexts.
Graduates will be able to:
- Carry out selection, assessment, requalification, and career development activities, even selecting and building tools suitable for skill assessment;
- Design and implement interventions on workplace development, conflict, and well-being;
- Analyze and design organizational environments, processes, and structures;
- Analyze training needs, design, implement, and assess training interventions;
- Design, implement, and assess interventions aimed at improving organizational behaviors, workplace safety, health, and well-being, even considering the impact of new technologies;
- Detect work-related stress risk and develop, monitor, and assess related interventions to counteract and reduce the phenomenon.
The Master’s Degree in Psychology of Work and Organizational Well-being is a two-year program taught in English for 120 credits (ECTS/CFU), internationally open, practice-oriented, and job-market driven.
First-year
- Evidence-based management
- Training, empowerment, and strengthening of soft skills, business coaching, and counseling
- Promotion and protection of health and well-being within organizations
- Statistical methods for the analysis of organizational phenomena
- Workshop: structures and processes of the organizations
- Methods and techniques of selection and assessment of human resources
- Group dynamics, conflict and negotiation in organizations
- Decision-making psychology applied to organizations
- Economics and development of innovation
- Workshop: project management
- Workshop: business English
- Theology
Second year
- Lifelong learning and skills assessment
- Fundamentals of labor law
- Workshop: Diversity management and organizational change
- Workshop: Corporate welfare systems and incentives
- Workshop: Smart working and new work scenarios
- Workshop: Organizational communication and corporate social responsibility
- Psychology of the environment and psychosocial well-being in organizational contexts
- Two out of the three following courses:
- Economics of innovation and sustainability (elective)
- Organizational design and behavior (elective)
- Digital strategy (elective)
- Thesis
Master of Science (MSc) in Psychology of Work and Organizational Well-being.
Studying at LUMSA means also the possibility to access a series of scholarships:
- Laziodisu: international students can apply to the regional scholarship program at Laziodisu each year. Region Lazio offers many scholarships to all students as well as financial support for accommodation
- Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs offers every year several scholarships to international students or to Italian students living abroad to access master's degrees
- Associazione Tincani: international students can apply for scholarships offered by the private association Associazione Tincani which offers each year several scholarships to all students regardless of their nationality
Enrolled students who fulfill the merit and financial requirements can apply for education grants. The amount goes from a minimum of € 1989 to a maximum of € 5.052,56 and varies according to the economic conditions of the family unit and the place where the student is resident. Students can ask for a part of the education grant to be converted into credit for the catering service.
Financial support through grants, exemption from tuition fees and various bands with reduced tuition fees, Accommodation through its special Housing service point, Meal facilities, Part-time jobs, and allowances for disabled students.
- Managers of human resources and organizational processes among public and private, as well as profit and non-profit organizations;
- Professionals of organizational consultancies, dealing with personnel selection and training, organizational analysis and planning; outplacement, stress prevention, and organizational well-being;
- Freelance consultants, as a trainer, counselor, tutor, mentor, coach, recruiter, and evaluator of human resources, as well as an analyzer of the quality of processes, the organizational climate and culture, and of the risks of work-related stress.